Google Analytics for BlackBerry Available with Nomad Analytics

 

Although the app has been around for some time we had to give a mention to Nomad Analytics: the one and only Google Analytics app for your BlackBerry. The app comes with a free trial and costs $4.99 afterwards. It’s surprising that it has taken this long to see a decent Google Analytics app but Nomad has done it. The app lets you track your websites and is incredibly simple to use. Simply log in with your Google credentials and the app pulls in all the sites registered with your account. Other features include:Main features of Nomad Analytics are:

• Ability to select any of the sites linked to your Analytics account
• Easy and intuitive menu navigation interface
• Nice line and pie charts to easily provide main information graphically
• Data & Graphs on daily, weekly and monthly basis for all the information provided
• Selectable date format
• Available in English and Spanish. More languages to come. Please write us to get yours included.

Data queries available on Nomad Analytics include:

• Overview: show visits, visitors, pageviews, bounces, average visit time
• Sources: show what site your users are coming from
• Countries: see what is the country of your visitors
• Keywords: know what keywords are your visitors using to reach you
• Content: see what are the most viewed pages
• Browser: show which browser are your visitors using
• Operating Systems: check the OS of the people coming to your site
• Languages: get to know what language are most of your visitors using
• Networks: what ISP do your visitors come from
• Mobile connections: you will know what type of mobile device your visitors are using

Check out the free trial of Nomad Analytics in App World.

BlackBerry Curve Apollo Caught Gets Video and Picture Treatment!

The leaks keep on rolling out for the unreleased (and mostly unannounced) lineup of BlackBerry devices RIM has in store for us in 2011. The latest to get the video treatment is the unreleased and unannounced BlackBerry Curve codename Apollo. This new device was caught on video by Vietnamese site Tinh te (via Engadget) along with some nice close-ups of the device. Google Translate does not due the site justice but you can get the gist of it.

Desktop Video Link | Mobile Video Link

 

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SmrtGuard Giving Away a BlackBerry PlayBook & Free Subscriptions

SmrtGuard let us know they are celebrating their 2nd birthday in a big way. They are giving away a BlackBerry PlayBook along with 10 lifetime and 50 one year subscriptions to SmrtGuard. The nice part is that all existing users are automatically entered to win the PlayBook. If you are not a SmrtGuard user you simply need to follow these instructions:

 

• Point your BlackBerry to SmrtGuard on App World or visit Smrtguard.com to download and sign up.
• Activate your account and you are in!

You need to activate your account between now and June 3rd to be entered to win and winners will be announced by July 1st 2011.

via:bbr

Analysts Are Pressuring RIM and Investors to Change Executive Management

Northern Securities analyst Sameet Kanade, recently wrote an open letter to RIM, asking the company to consider dropping Balsillie as a co-CEO, among other recommendations. There are other analysts who seem to be echoing this sentiment such as Charter Equity analyst Ed Snyder, who said “Jim and Mike brought the company to where it is … which is part of the biggest problem they’re facing.” He added, “They’re stuck in the past. They know what worked and keep playing that card and it’s not working any more, and they don’t seem to have any ideas.”

To remove Jim or Mike would be really difficult. At a capitalization of $23 billion, investors would have to fork over more than $1 billion to gain enough control to have any influence. Some analysts are suggesting it may happen with an activist, a person who invests in the company and attracts other like-minded investors to help gain control. One way to defend against an activist is to raise the stock value and make it more expensive to gain control of the company. In the past year, RIM has lost a quarter of its stock price, which now is very undervalued. It’s not clear if anything will satisfy the naysayers, or if they’re just out to slam RIM regardless of what it does.

 

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Free LogicMail 2.0 IMAP/POP3 Email Client Graduates Out of Beta

Over the years I have found LogicMail to be a must have app on my BlackBerry. It provides a free open source email client (POP3, IMAP, SMTP) for your BlackBerry so you can access emails you don’t want pushed to your device. Right at the beginning of the year LogicMail 2.0 was released in beta form with a boatload of new features. Now those features have been considered stable and are in the full public release. There is even a nice Setup Guide to get you up and running.

The new features in LogicMail v2.0 include:

 

• Step-by-step setup wizard
• All network communications now happens in the background, and mail data is now locally cached
• Improved look and feel
• Support for both local and remote Sent/Drafts folders
• Ability to copy messages between folders, even across accounts
• Improved message composition, with an Outbox that holds messages until successfully sent
• Keyboard shortcuts mimicking the native messaging application, and touchscreen device support
• Able to read E-Mails written in many different languages and character encodings.
• Full support for IMAP IDLE (while connected; background polling not yet implemented)
• Supports OS 4.5, 4.6, 4.7, 5.0, and 6.0+
• Any plenty more!

To pick up the stable v2.0.0.277 of LogicMail head to these links:

• Point your BlackBerry browser at: http://logicmail.org/ota
• Visit the SourceForge Download Page

Quick Laugh – In a World Where NFC Replaces a Mans Wallet…

via AllThingsD via:bbr

Leaked AT&T Roadmap Shows BlackBerry Torch 2 “Uwan” 9810 Launching in Q2

While this looks like an old roadmap from AT&T it still is a bit telling. This rumored roadmap shows a BlackBerry “Uwan” 9810 launching in Q2 of 2011. It still says the device runs BlackBerry OS 6.1 so it is definitely a month old if not more. On the other hand this means RIM was gearing up for a Q2 2011 release which ends in June so it might not be crazy to think we will see the Torch 2 in a June/July or maybe even August time frame. The odd part is that RIM announced the BlackBerry Bold 9900 yet did not mention any of these other devices officially…

What do you think of this rumored roadmap?

via PocketNow via N4BB

Sideload aMail Email Client on Your BlackBerry PlayBook

We heard about aMail working on a BlackBerry PlayBook email client for almost a month now but it has yet to hit App World. My guess is RIM is holding up the app due to their SDK license that disallows creating email clients for BlackBerrys. Still it looks like aMail is working around App World. Todd noticed a thread on CrackBerry forums where aMail is offering their app as a sideload-able installer.

 

This sideload version of aMail comes with a 24 hour trial for you to kick the tires after which you can buy the program for $2.99 (beta test program rate). Its kind of a unique idea and definitely the first developer to document and promote sideloading apps on the BlackBerry PlayBook. RIM has foolishly not opened up OTA downloads for the BlackBerry PlayBook but hopefully they are reconsidering that annoying stance. Until then let us know what you think about aMail in the comments!

• Download the aMail trial ZIP file with instructions[qrcode pix=150]http://aiflex.com/aMail/Release/1-0-8-49/aMail-Install-Pack.zip[/qrcode]

via:bbr

India telecom company to take on BlackBerry with Bharat Berry

BlackBerry news from India heats up as Indian telecom operator, Mahanagar Telephone Nigam Ltd (MTNL), has launched a alternative to BlackBerry services last Friday. The service, Bharat Berry, takes the stage as a less expensive and more accessible replacement option for those BlackBerry users who are under the threat of BlackBerry services being cut off by the India government. Features of the service include:

• Works with all compatible Mobile phones
• Works with your Corporate mail, Gmail and your personal email accounts
• Has all data and communication functionalities you are used to
• Provides over the air (OTA) Contact and Calendar backup
• Is an India-compliant solution

This means that the Bharat Berry service will allow users to have their emails pushed to their device, as well as on the go synchronization of calendar and contacts for multiple mail accounts. The service has been “tested on several entry-level handsets,” according to Dr Ajay Data, director, Bharat Berry Technologies.

Executive Director (Wireless Services), MTNL, AK Bhargava said:

BharatBerry is an Indian compliant Product made by Bharat Berry technologies in India keeping in consideration all necessary India laws; the necessary approval from all respective agencies have been received before launching this service for Delhi GSM subscribers. While the services offered by other providers are handset-based, Bharat Berry service can run on any Java-enabled normal GPRS-enabled handset like Nokia, Motorola, Samsung, LG, Blackberry, HTC, etc and ensures that you remain connected to your email, calendar and contacts through the servers hosted in India.

The cost of the Bharat Berry monthly subscription rate will be Rs 80 (about $1.77) to use along with any standard data plan.

• Visit the Bharat Berry site for more details

via:bbos

Android Device Sales May Be High But Developers Can’t Monetize

This graph shows the proportion of paid apps by download tier.We often write about Distimo’s reports because they give insight into the app industry, and a lot of developers are going cross-platform these days. Here at NHCBBA we’ve talked a lot about the fact that BlackBerry developers are making a decent amount of money albeit the media’s insistence that they aren’t attracting developers. Sure, there’s rockstars making a lot of money on iPhone, but considering the number of apps on the platform, the majority of apps are probably making zero dollars per day. It seems Android is a horrible platform for the average developer, where 80% of all paid applications have been downloaded less than 100 times in the Google Android Market worldwide to date. So for all the media hype around Android, it’s not going to last long in the app space unless your average developer can get paid.

Here are the major findings from the report:

• 96 applications have been downloaded more than 5 million times in the Google Android Market. Google Maps is the only application with more than 50 million downloads in the Google Android Market, making it the all-time most popular application in this store.
• 20% of all free applications and 80% of all paid applications have been downloaded less than 100 times in the Google Android Market worldwide to date.
• It is more challenging for developers in the Google Android Market than in the Apple App Store to monetize using a one-off fee monetization model. We found that only two paid applications have been downloaded more than half a million times in the Google Android Market worldwide to date, while six paid applications in the Apple App Store for iPhone generate the same number of downloads within a two month timeframe in the United States alone.
• Looking at just games, there are five games in Google Android Market with over 250,000 downloads worldwide. In the Apple App Store for iPhone ten games generated more than 250,000 downloads in the United States alone in two months.
• The refresh rate of top application charts is significantly higher in the Apple App Store for iPhone than in the Google Andoid Market. During the month of April, there were 94 distinct applications with a top 10 (free or paid) position in the Apple App Store for iPhone in the US; there were only 26 distinct applications that reached a top 10 position in the Google Android Market.

You can now download this publication here.

via:bbcool