While attending BlackBerry Live earlier this week I was interviewed by Simon Sage of CrackBerry.com as a participant in their CrackBerry Live series recorded throughout the event. After providing an overview of PamFax for BlackBerry 10 and Playbook we then went on to discuss my experience with Skype for BlackBerry 10. More on the latter [...]
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BlackBerry 10: If the Tablet is Going Away, Then What?
Tuesday morning marks the launch of BlackBerry Live 2013, BlackBerry’s annual enterprise mobility conference for service providers and enterprise customers; concurrently BlackBerry Jam Americas targets BlackBerry’s extensive network of third party developers. It would appear that over 3500 will be attending these three day events to learn more about the directions BlackBerry, the company formerly [...]

BlackBerry: A Smartphone Manifesto
To tablet, or not to tablet, that is the question: Whether ’tis Nobler in the mind to suffer The Slings and Arrows of outrageous Competition, Or to take Arms against a Sea of troubles, And by opposing end them: to die, to sleep No more; and by a sleep, to say we end The Tablet-ache, [...]
BlackBerry and Analysts: A Classical Misalignment of Interests
Yesterday BlackBerry, the company formerly known as Research in Motion, called the bluff of analysts who are trying to forecast their earnings and move share prices. However, the analysts’ interests are not at all aligned with BlackBerry’s interests, including goals, business plans and sales channel management. Analysts seek out short term results; a restructuring on [...]
BlackBerry, the Business: The Phoenix Arises Beyond Rebirth
Following up on last fall’s post, RIM: A Phoenix in Rebirth Emerging, yesterday’s report show the initial signs, yet baby steps, of BlackBerry’s emergence once again as a player of note in the smartphone market space. At least we can move from ad hoc reports of visits to retail locations by overly eager analysts to [...]
BlackBerry 10 “Did I Say It Was Fast?” IIa: Smart Touch Keyboard
This post is the continuation of a series that started out as “BlackBerry 10, First Impressions“. But as I get more experience I am changing the title to “BlackBerry 10 “Did I Say It Was Fast?”. After all, if Microsoft can confuse us with the various names it gives to Windows, I can in full [...]
BlackBerry 10 First Impressions II: Touch Keyboard and Browser
Three weeks ago today I received my evaluation BlackBerry 10. To say the least it has been everything I expected of a device with the promise of true multi-tasking and powerful mobile hardware. In a recent post I mentioned several reviews that go into extensive detail and gave it good marks for its performance. Here [...]

How can Skype avoid becoming obsolete?
[More about Phil Wolff and this guest post below.] Skype’s been disappointing some of my friends. They bemoan missing features available in more enterprisey tools, a real Skype for the web app, a platform for coding Skype into our own web services, and a passion for design simplicity that makes Skype clients feel dumbed down. [...]
BlackBerry 10: First Impressions I–Display and Share
Two weeks ago today I received my evaluation BlackBerry 10. To say the least it has been everything I expected of a device with the promise of true multi-tasking and powerful mobile hardware. In a recent post I mentioned several reviews that go into extensive detail and gave it good marks for its performance. Here [...]

Voice On The Web: Now a BlackBerry 10 & Playbook App
Last fall I made a couple of changes to the Voice On The Web infrastructure, including adoption of responsive design to automatically adjust its display format across all PC, smartphone and tablet platforms. At the time I felt this was sufficient to meet viewer needs and I did not need to look into building device [...]
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- BlackBerry Live: Discussing PamFax and Skype on CrackBerry Live May 19, 2013
- PamFax at BlackBerry Live: Free Trial Offer for Attendees May 15, 2013
- BlackBerry 10: If the Tablet is Going Away, Then What? May 13, 2013
- BlackBerry 10 & PamFax: Your Complete Fax Solution May 12, 2013
- BlackBerry: A Smartphone Manifesto May 1, 2013
- FREETALK® Everyman USB Headset for Skype: Not “Just Another Headset”! August 14, 2009
- Coming “Real Soon Now”: Skype for iPhone over 3G February 3, 2010
- Skype’s SILK Codec: Working Towards Adoption as a Standard March 11, 2010
- SILK: Skype’s New Audio Codec Sets New Performance Standards for Voice Conversations February 3, 2009
- Is WiFi Becoming the Unregulated Stealth Carrier of the Future? July 25, 2009
- RIM: A Phoenix Emerging from its Ashes | 2 Sides 2 Everything: [...] Courtney writing on his blog (http://voiceon...
- RIM 1 of likely companies to fold next year - Page 2 - BlackBerry Forums at CrackBerry.com: [...] however, BB10 is the sign of a rebirth. ...
- “Skype Has Stopped Working”: Another Service Interruption | Voice on the Web: [...] Skype Login Disruption Update: User Friendly...
- Skype With Your Doctor: Risk vs. Reward —C3Social Social Media Consulting Milwaukee & Chicago C3Social: [...] Even with a signed disclaimer for treatment,...
- Whither Skype Extras Today? Withered? | Voice on the Web: [...] the Extras publishers were acquired; for ins...
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- Talking @BlackBerry 10 marketing, Keep Moving Projects and Formula One with Frank Boulben http://t.co/ENWXALG1o3 Asked the retail question. about 16 hours ago from Buffer ReplyRetweetFavorite
- Why a @Blackberry Is Better Than an iPhone - Networking, wireless, smartphones, iPhone, BBM,CIO http://t.co/evUCvAYysI @BlackBerrydev #BB10 03:10:10 PM May 19, 2013 from Buffer ReplyRetweetFavorite
- Why a @Blackberry Is Better Than an iPhone - Networking, wireless, smartphones, iPhone, BBM,CIO... http://t.co/nuw2q1u5BL 02:10:11 PM May 19, 2013 from Facebook ReplyRetweetFavorite
- BlackBerry Live: Discussing @PamFax and @Skype on @CrackBerry Live http://t.co/2477exe74p #BB10 @Blackberrydev 09:15:03 AM May 19, 2013 from Buffer ReplyRetweetFavorite
- Connected cars are the next mobile frontier, and @BlackBerry has a head start http://t.co/uINNxnykRJ via @DigitalTrends @BlackBerrydev 08:14:03 AM May 19, 2013 from Buffer ReplyRetweetFavorite
- @CrackBerry Live: Talking faxes & VoIP on @BlackBerry 10 w/ Jim Courtney http://t.co/eW54s5r3Tf @PamFax @BlackBerryDev #BB10 @voiceontheweb 10:18:24 PM May 18, 2013 from Buffer in reply to CrackBerry ReplyRetweetFavorite
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- Testing sending a picture from a BBM Channels post (3rd party). The sign itself could only be written by a beaurocrat http://t.co/dl1TEO8iYj about 1 hour ago from Twitter for BlackBerry ReplyRetweetFavorite
- The Jim Courtney Daily is out! http://t.co/ZSP02Se9ji ▸ Top stories today via @sevendotzero about 2 hours ago from Paper.li ReplyRetweetFavorite
- Talking @BlackBerry 10 marketing, Keep Moving Projects and Formula One with Frank Boulben http://t.co/9oksWzRzcE Asked the retail question. about 16 hours ago from Buffer ReplyRetweetFavorite
- Two-thirds of @BlackBerry converts tempted to return by Q10 | ZDNet http://t.co/PBs4RqwyS7 #BB10 #BB10believe about 20 hours ago from Twitter for BlackBerry ReplyRetweetFavorite
- The Jim Courtney Daily is out! http://t.co/ZSP02Se9ji ▸ Top stories today via @n_adam_stanley @Hardened 04:55:07 AM May 20, 2013 from Paper.li ReplyRetweetFavorite
- RT @FortNeyland95: @BlackBerryDev I had to share this. My 9 year old daughter wrote this for me while I was at #BBlive @Sleepy2009 http://t… 05:30:01 PM May 19, 2013 from TweetDeck ReplyRetweetFavorite







