National Film Board of Canada launches app for BlackBerry PlayBook

It may not ship with email, contacts, a calendar, a memo or native BBM capability, but RIM's BlackBerry PlayBook will have instant access to over 1,500 films from the National Film Board of Canada through its app. The app gives users free access to acclaimed NFB films, as well as an exclusive high-definition (HD) channel dedicated to award-winning NFB films via WiFi.

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SourceCode: PlayBook Predictions

By Gadjo Cardenas Sevilla

The BlackBerry PlayBook is RIM's diminuitive yet dynamic 7" inch tablet that's a make or break product for the BlackBerry maker  shipping on April 19. This is a much awaited tablet not just for BlackBerry fans but for new tablet buyers looking into a non Apple and Android tablet option. We discuss our thoughts on the much awaited, incessantly hyped PlayBook.

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Two unannounced smartphones worth waiting for and Sony's CES booth tour

We're well into January and the smoke has cleared on a staggering number of new smartphone announcements coming in 2011. We've got larger screen sizes, the first round of dual core processor smartphones and an increasing scale of flexibility specially in the Android smartphone spectrum. There are some rumoured smartphones that haven't been officially announced but whose pictures, specs and features have been leaked.

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Mobilicity first Canadian carrier to offer BlackBerry 6 upgrade

Good news for Mobilicity customers with BlackBerry handsets.  The BlackBerry 6 operating system (OS6) upgrades are available and good to go. Mobilicity customers using the BlackBerry Bold 9700 and the BlackBerry Curve 3G smartphones can now benefit from a wide range of significant BlackBerry 6 enhancements, including a rich new user interface, a fast and powerful WebKit-based browser and an incredibly useful Universal Search feature.

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