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BerryReview.com Giving Back to the BlackBerry Community

Labyrinth v2.3.1 Adds Support for BlackBerry Torch 9810, 9850, & 9860

Posted: 13 Oct 2011 02:54 AM PDT

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Labyrinth 2 is one of my favorite BlackBerry games that I am missing on my BlackBerry Bold 9930. I just got a notification from our store that at Labyrinth has now added support for BlackBerry 7 devices, specifically the BlackBerry Torch 9810, 9850, & 9860 are now supported. Sadly the 9900 and 9930 are not since they do not have an accelerometer though hopefully the devs figure out a way around that maybe with the magnetometer.

Check out Labyrinth in the store or App World for $4.99. They also have a free Lite version in the store.

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Posted by Ronen Halevy for ©BerryReview, October 13, 2011, 5:54 am. | Labyrinth v2.3.1 Adds Support for BlackBerry Torch 9810, 9850, & 9860 | Leave a comment |


Giveaway: 10 Copies of Newly Updated Fixmo Tools v2.5

Posted: 12 Oct 2011 12:00 PM PDT

Captura al 11-10-2011 10-53-22Fixmo tools is a cool app packed with many features not found native on the BlackBerry devices. One of the cool features is e-mail compliance that helps you keep good e-mail etiquette.  The recent update of Fixmo is free to current users which includes the following new features:

Fixmo Tools 2.5 Update includes:

  • Support for BlackBerry OS 7 devices
  • Conserve Wi-Fi – A completely new application that conserves battery life by turning Wi-Fi on and off based on your location (cell towers)
  • Deleting Apps – Since our last release, we actually got quite a bit of feedback that there was an overwhelming amount of apps in Fixmo Tools.  So in Fixmo Tools 2.5, the user can optionally delete Fixmo Tools sub-apps that they use less frequently
  • Performance optimizations

 

Other features:

  • Wifi File Transfer – Transfer files to and from a PC or Mac directly to your BlackBerry using only Wifi and your computer’s browser
  • Wifi Media Backup – Seamlessly back-up the photos, videos and voice-notes on your BlackBerry to your Windows-based PC
  • Remote Print – Print emails, photos, contacts, memos, office documents and more directly from your BlackBerry to your printer over WiFi (Windows PC Required)
  • Remind Me Later – Schedule a reminder in your calendar for a meeting, email, SMS and more
  • Screenshot – Capture a simple screenshot from any application from within the application menu. The captured screenshot is stored within the device’s pictures folder
  • Memo – Create a list to-do items that are posted directly on top of the background of your BlackBerry display
  • UI improvements across all applications
  • Undelete is your phone’s recycling bin. You can retrieve deleted email, PIN messages, calendar events, tasks, and memos
  • Mail Compliance Manager helps you save face. It warns if you’re about to reply all to a message on which you were BCC’d, use potentially inappropriate language/punctuation/capitalization and add unintended recipients
  • Forward/Reply with Edit lets you edit the original message when you reply or forward it and is integrated seamlessly into the existing email menu
  • MeetMe enables you to easily arrange a meeting by automatically selecting available times on your calendar and inserting them into an email
  • Battery Watch monitors power usage and warns you when your battery reaches low levels
  • Silencer watches your calendar and completely silences during scheduled events
  • Memory Monitor tracks detailed memory stats and gives you an insight into your phone’s performance across both RAM and Device Memory
  • Multi Clipboard allows for the ability to store and retrieve multiple items in the clipboard
  • SMS Recovery helps you recover your SMS messages by keeping a backup copy of all SMS messages sent or received
  • Call Indicator allows you to set a different LED color for calls so you can differentiate them from other messages. Handy for when your profile is set to silent mode
  • Speedtest measures the download and upload speeds of your 3G, EDGE and WiFi network

You purchase Fixmo Tools from BlackBerry app world on discount for or BerryReview Store for $14.99

GIVEAWAY: Fixmo has shared with us 10 copies to give to you, and to have a chance at winning a copy simply leave a comment below. Comments must be left before Friday October 14th.

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Posted by Luis Merlos for ©BerryReview, October 12, 2011, 3:00 pm. | Giveaway: 10 Copies of Newly Updated Fixmo Tools v2.5 | 64 comments |


BlackBerry Curve 9350 OS 7.0.0.400 Officially Released by US Cellular

Posted: 12 Oct 2011 09:10 AM PDT

imageAnother OS update officially dropped today for the BlackBerry Curve 9350 courtesy of US Cellular. The update to v7.0.0.400 is nice because CDMA devices don't usually get updates as fast. We have no idea what is new in this build but if you are an official OS only guy you may want to check it out:

Download BlackBerry Curve 9350 OS 7.0.0.400 @BlackBerry.com

Thanks Paul for sending this in!

Warning: This OS will not install on any other BlackBerry besides the one mentioned above. Don't forget to delete the vendor.xml file located in c:program files>common files>research in motion>apploader to install it on a different carriers device. If you do not know how to upgrade your BlackBerry OS please start by reading this step by step guide.

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Posted by the BerryReview Team for ©BerryReview, October 12, 2011, 12:10 pm. | BlackBerry Curve 9350 OS 7.0.0.400 Officially Released by US Cellular | Leave a comment |


BlackBerry Bold 9900 OS 7.0.0.439 Officially Released by WIND Canada

Posted: 12 Oct 2011 09:08 AM PDT

imageWIND updated the OS for the BlackBerry Bold 9900 on their BlackBerry download page this week. The update is not the latest OS we have seen leaked but its pretty close at v7.0.0.439. We have no idea what is new in this build but if you are an official OS only guy you may want to check it out:

Download BlackBerry Bold 9900 OS 7.0.0.439 @BlackBerry.com

Thanks Paul for sending this in!

Warning: This OS will not install on any other BlackBerry besides the one mentioned above. Don't forget to delete the vendor.xml file located in c:program files>common files>research in motion>apploader to install it on a different carriers device. If you do not know how to upgrade your BlackBerry OS please start by reading this step by stepguide.

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Posted by the BerryReview Team for ©BerryReview, October 12, 2011, 12:08 pm. | BlackBerry Bold 9900 OS 7.0.0.439 Officially Released by WIND Canada | Leave a comment |


RIM Posts Global BlackBerry Service Update Page – Confirms Issues in the Americas

Posted: 12 Oct 2011 07:59 AM PDT

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RIM's @BlackBerryHelp account posted a link to a "BlackBerry Service Update" page on their RIM.com website with updates on the current BlackBerry Outage. This is on top of the UK BlackBerry Service Update page. The latest update just went up an hour ago confirming intermittent issues for "Subscribers in the Americas." They are obviously working to fix the issues ASAP as a priority one job. Here is what they have to say so far:

Wednesday 12th October – 9:45 (GMT-5)
BlackBerry subscribers in the Americas may be experiencing intermittent service delays this morning. We are working to resolve the situation as quickly as possible and we apologize to our customers for any inconvenience. We will provide a further update as soon as more information is available.

Wednesday 12th October – 12:00 (GMT+1)
We know that many of you are still experiencing service problems. The resolution of this service issue is our Number One priority right now and we are working night and day to restore all BlackBerry services to normal levels. We will continue to keep this page updated.

Tuesday 11th October – 21:30 (GMT+1)
The messaging and browsing delays that some of you are still experiencing were caused by a core switch failure within RIM's infrastructure. Although the system is designed to failover to a back-up switch, the failover did not function as previously tested. As a result, a large backlog of data was generated and we are now working to clear that backlog and restore normal service as quickly as possible. We sincerely apologise for the inconvenience caused to many of you and we will continue to keep you informed.

Tuesday 11th October – 16:00 (GMT+1)
Some of you are experiencing messaging and browsing delays. We are working to restore normal service as quickly as possible and we apologise for any inconvenience this has caused.

Monday 10th October – 20:46 (GMT+1)
Our sincere apologies to all of you affected by today’s BlackBerry service issues.

Monday 10th October – 15:00 (GMT+1)
We are currently working to resolve an issue impacting some of our BlackBerry customers in the Europe, Middle East and Africa region. In the meantime, we apologise to you for any inconvenience, and thank you for your patience.

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Posted by the BerryReview Team for ©BerryReview, October 12, 2011, 10:59 am. | RIM Posts Global BlackBerry Service Update Page – Confirms Issues in the Americas | One comment |


BlackBerry BIS Outage Stretching into US, Canada, & Asia

Posted: 12 Oct 2011 07:49 AM PDT

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We have received multiple confirmations from different sources that the BlackBerry outage that started two days ago in the EMEA region in spreading a bit. According to one source twenty five percent of users in the US and Latin America are experiencing issues. Reuters is reporting that RIM confirmed to some clients that it is having issues in both the US and Canada. There are also reports of sporadic issues in the Asia Pacific region though I have not managed to pin them down.

The issues in the US and Canada seem to be surrounding BIS, BBM, BIS-B, and push services though for now it just seems to be causing sporadic delays. Let us know if you are experiencing anything in the comments.

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Posted by the BerryReview Team for ©BerryReview, October 12, 2011, 10:49 am. | BlackBerry BIS Outage Stretching into US, Canada, & Asia | 12 comments |


BlackBerry Outage Stretches into Third Day – RIM Still Working on Fix

Posted: 12 Oct 2011 07:04 AM PDT

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The outage RIM is experiencing for the last two days is now into its third day. Last night RIM said they were working through the backlog and from what I am hearing users in Europe, Middle East, Africa, India, Brazil, Chile and Argentina are still experiencing severe issues. From what we are hearing and from carrier reports the issues are still hours away from being fully resolved.

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I have been hearing multiple rumors of what exactly happened and what RIM is doing to fix it beyond their announcement of a "core switch and subsequent backup failure" but feel free to speculate or share the reasons you are hearing in the forums!

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Posted by Ronen Halevy for ©BerryReview, October 12, 2011, 10:04 am. | BlackBerry Outage Stretches into Third Day – RIM Still Working on Fix | 8 comments |


BlackBerry Security Incident Response Team Responds to Elcomsoft Brute Force Password Attack

Posted: 12 Oct 2011 06:51 AM PDT

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I received a copy of this email that RIM has been sending out to customers about the brute force passwords attack Elcomsoft has announced for BlackBerry media cards. We told you earlier this month that practically any offline password system devoid of hardware protection is vulnerable to a brute force password guessing attack and how to mitigate it on BlackBerrys.This is what RIM has been using as an answer for customers worried about Elcomsoft's attack vector from the BlackBerry Security Incident Response Team (BBSIRT):


The article states that the tool uses a brute-force attack to guess the smartphone password by attempting to decrypt the contents of a media card that has been removed from the smartphone. For this tool to do what Elcomsoft claims, an IT administrator or the smartphone user must have chosen to encrypt the contents of the media card with the smartphone password only. Furthermore, an attacker must have access to the media card from the smartphone, and the tool would have to successfully guess the password. To then use the password to unlock the smartphone, that attacker would also have to have access to the smartphone.

For stronger protection, users can choose to encrypt the contents of an optional media card, choose the option to encrypt using a device key or the combination of a device key and the device password. See Enforcing encryption of internal and external file systems on BlackBerry devices for more information.

To increase the difficulty of guessing passwords, RIM recommends that users always use strong passwords. A strong password has the following characteristics: includes punctuation marks, numbers, capital and lowercase letters does not include the user name, account name, or any word or phrase that would be easily guessed.

The security of mobile devices and major networked systems is tested by third party security researchers every day. RIM also continually tests the security of its own products, and volunteers its products to recognized industry experts for security testing and certification to help identify possible security vulnerabilities and protect BlackBerry customers against potential security threats.

For information on BlackBerry security, visit http://www.blackberry.com/security.

It gets the point across without getting technical but it could have done more to explain the situation. Essentially if you password is less than 8 characters and you don't use a device key to encrypt then computers are capable of cracking it if they are given enough time.

Here is a simple to understand breakdown. Say you had a password using 62 possible characters (from the 26 lower case, 26 upper case, 10 digits):

  • An 8 character password has ~221+ trillion combinations (Computers can crack this in hours if not a day or two)
  • A 10 character password has ~850+ quadrillion combinations (Computers could brute force this password in months)
  • A 12 character password which is a bit absurd has ~3 sextillion combinations (Current computers could brute force this in about a 100 years)

What a device key essentially does is create a 128 bit or 256 bit key that can possibly be combined with your password. That would take current computers ages to crack. The thing is there are some downsides to using a device key and encryption does cost you in terms of performance… So once again it is all up to how paranoid you actually are…

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Posted by Ronen Halevy for ©BerryReview, October 12, 2011, 9:51 am. | BlackBerry Security Incident Response Team Responds to Elcomsoft Brute Force Password Attack | 5 comments |


IBM Study Finds Filing Your Email into Folders is Unproductive…

Posted: 12 Oct 2011 05:40 AM PDT

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You have to love these kinds of studies. The latest coming out of IBM Research is a 345 user study into how productive it is to file your emails into folders. According to their filings findings it took users an average of 17 seconds to find an email via searching compared to 58 seconds to find an email by folder. Filing emails also did not make the success of finding the intended email any more successful. They claim that users are spending 20+ minutes a day filing emails in a pointless exercise.

They also delve into labels and conversation threads like you find in Gmail. According to the study users resisted tagging emails though did not delve further into it. On the other hand they found that conversation threading (a sweet feature that RIM added in BlackBerry OS 6.0) is essentially a form of custom search that makes it easier to find emails. IBM Research seems to be all for conversation threading though they want Superthreading which groups multiple conversations together under a topic or project.

Check out the full details at BoxFreeIt or a great conversation going on at SlashDot

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Posted by Ronen Halevy for ©BerryReview, October 12, 2011, 8:40 am. | IBM Study Finds Filing Your Email into Folders is Unproductive… | 7 comments |


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