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BlackBerry World 2011 Wireless Achievement Award Winners and Videos

Posted: 04 May 2011 10:22 AM PDT

Every year RIM highlights some of their customers who are taking the BlackBerry solution to the next level in different sectors. They break the sectors into Business Impact, Innovation In Private Sector, and Innovation In Public Sector with a new Attendee Choice catogory. The winners can be found below along with videos!

Attendee Choice Award
New this year at BlackBerry World is the Attendee Choice Award. This award allowed BlackBerry World attendees to vote for one of the three finalists representing applications developed by a business for its customers.

Winner: The Delta mobile app has been designed to provide Delta air line travelers with a faster, more informed travel experience. Designed to make flying with Delta Air Lines even more convenient, travelers can see their SkyMiles balance and status, look-up flight schedules, complete mobile check-in, save and use e-boarding passes, track flights and view upcoming trips. With the BlackBerry® Push Service, customers get near real-time notifications, such as flight schedule and gate changes along with the capability to re-book a cancelled or delayed flight – all from within the app. The app also cleverly uses the BlackBerry smartphone camera to setup a parking reminder to help when returning from a trip. The Delta app was built in partnership with Kony Solutions.

Finalists:

CIBC
Sherwin-Williams

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Business Impact
This award recognizes organizations that have deployed a wireless solution that has made a significant impact to their business.

Winner: Chiesi Farmaceutici — Chiesi Farmaceutici S.P.A. is an Italian pharmaceutical company. To show the efficacy of aspecific drug for the treatment of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD), Chiesi began a clinical trial involving 2,000 patients in 19 countries. Working with TechMobile, a BlackBerry® Alliance Program member, Chiesi developed a BlackBerry® application that is designed to let trial patients securely submit a daily health questionnaire about their symptoms. Data is collected automatically by a central system. Chiesi choose the BlackBerry® solution because of its security features. The trial is achieving a 94% patient compliance rate and saved Chiesi €5 million verses the traditional paper process.

Finalists:

Carmedic
USG People

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Innovation In Private Sector
This award recognizes organizations that have used wireless solutions in innovative ways in healthcare, public safety and government.

Winner: UPMC — UPMC is a global health enterprise headquartered in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania with approximately 50,000 employees and 400 outpatient sites. UPMC deployed BlackBerry® smartphones with SmartRoom technology to nurses, transporters and clinicians at UPMC Mercy, one of its 20 hospitals. The SmartRoom pulls data from the electronic medical record (EMR) to display patient room assignments, tasks and vital patient information on screens at the nurses' stations and now on the BlackBerry smartphone. In the hospital unit where the pilot took place, health care providers have improved call-response time, reduced time looking for people or information and reduced the noise levels in and around patient rooms.

Finalists:

Emirates Group
LILA Asturias

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Innovation In Public Sector
This award recognizes organizations that have deployed new, innovative wireless solutions to drive business productivity.

Winner: Chatham-Kent Police Service — Chatham-Kent Police Service (CKPS) is responsible for an area spanning 2,400 sq km in southwestern Ontario, Canada. They use a two-factor authentication system, with a BlackBerry® Smart Card Reader and SafeNet® Smart Card technology. The solution passed extensive threat and risk assessments before receiving approval from the Ontario Police Technology Information Cooperative (OPTIC). Confident they had a secure solution, BlackBerry® smartphones were rolled out with a suite of applications including Niche-RMS (access to criminal record and transportation databases), MPATracking (dispatch monitoring of officers' locations), MPABeatBlog (daily briefing tool), and MPADictation (for officers to capture notes and data while on site).

Finalists:

Mississippi Department of Transportation
University Hospitals Birmingham

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DICOTA Beautiful Cases for The BlackBerry and PlayBook

Posted: 04 May 2011 10:17 AM PDT

This year at BlackBerry World we came across some new vendors and we ran into DICOTA who just recently joined the Built for BlackBerry program. Al though they just recently joined the program they have been in the business making cases for smartphones, tablets and gadget friendly carryon's. We were impressed with the unique and stylish designs with multi purpose functionality in mind. The ones that really caught our attention are the PlayBook cases but they also have ones for the BlackBerry smartphone.

They have a couple of cases for one is a sleeve case that simply allows you to slip the PlayBook into it for easy portability called TabGuard. The other ones are the convertible cases, one allows you to carry the PlayBook anywhere but once you take it out you can use it to as a stand with 2 different modes, landscape, vertical also allows you to set it as a viewing mode or for typing on a table.

The carryon bags have a protective slot to place your BlackBerry PlayBook for the business or if you do a quite a bit of personal travel. The products shown here will be available later this year in the US.

To learn more about the company and products check out their website http://www.dicota.com

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An Inside Look at TAT and the Native PlayBook SDK Potential

Posted: 04 May 2011 10:11 AM PDT

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Our buddies over at CrackBerry managed to snag some time earlier with the TAT (The Astonishing Tribe) team to take a look at the process behind their apps. They were showing off the native SDK for the BlackBerry PlayBook and the power it offers developers to easily create graphically appealing apps. All in all it is pretty sweet to see the power behind the platform and its upcoming potential.

I have heard that the native SDK is not ready for prime time just yet but we will see it drop in the next month or two.

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PrivacyStar Subscription Contest

Posted: 04 May 2011 09:18 AM PDT

PrivacyStar is an awesome app to have if you always find yourself at the receiving end of a lot of telemarketers, wrong numbers or just plain want to block specific numbers from contacting you. PrivacyStar offers Unlimited Caller ID, Unlimited Call Blocking and more. Boasting the ability to help users within the U.S and Canada file complaints with the Do No Call agencies, you will have peace of mind knowing when your phone rings, it wont be because of an annoying telemarketer.

In honor of the success that the #45 PrivacyStar car is having in the Pirelli World Challenge, PrivacyStar is excited to present "Your Worst Telemarketing Experience" Contest. All you have to do is comment on this post about your worst telemarketing experience. Tell us and your submission would be worth one of 2 six month subscriptions or one of 2 one year subscriptions. This contest will run from today, Wednesday May 4th until Thursday May 5th at 11:59 pm.

Rules:

- No Names or Companies

- All comments must be clean

- No foul language

- Only 1 submission per person. Any other submissions will not be counted

- Contest ends at 11:59 pm on Thursday May 5th. Any comments left after which won't be counted.

Winners will be announced on Friday May 6th. Good luck!

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Corvette Multi Media Head Unit Powered By QNX

Posted: 04 May 2011 07:30 AM PDT

QNX has been around for quite a while building OS for a large variety of electronic devices from simple to complex systems such as a nuclear power plant. This week here at the BlackBerry world had two cars a Jaguar and a Corvette. QNX powers the multi media head unit on both of these vehicles. We got a chance to sit get a demo from one of the QNX guys on the corvette. The head unit can be used for streaming music from apps like Pandora, check the weather, and when you pair a BlackBerry PlayBook to it can control the AC system on it among other things with a PlayBook app. The car also has a cool looking dashboard that displays quite a few things on it. check out the video below.