5 Tips for Success When Selling Your App in BlackBerry App World

If you have a BlackBerry app or you’re considering developing one, chances are that you’re trying a variety of channels, one of which is BlackBerry App World. Like any good business, you have to have a strategy for success with App World, and you can’t rely entirely on organic discovery. Here are a few tips to maximize your success in App World.

1. Get Featured – Getting featured in App World is a pretty simple task. Any BlackBerry Alliance member will have a point of contact who will help them get regularly featured in the App World carousel. If you’re not an Alliance Member and you’d like to get featured, just tweet and email around RIM until you find the right person. Twitter accounts such as @blackberry, @alexkinsella and @tron can all point you to the right people. Getting featured in App World will create a spike in downloads, but your downloads will also rest a little higher than usual. Take for example WickidApps’ Camera Plus, which was featured not too long ago:

BlackBerry Smartphones Getting NFC Chips; Verizon, AT&T, T-Mobile Begin Testing

Research In Motion is planning to add Near Field Communication (NFC) chips to their upcoming smartphone lineup. No other details are available, but the tip came with the formal announcement from Verizon, AT&T, T-mobile of Isis, a joint partnership on mobile payments.

BlackBerry devices will be the next in line to get NFC chips. The idea is to use the NFC chips and smartphones to be able to make purchases. Eventually coupons, discounts, stores, and even transit ticketing areas could be supported for quick and easy purchasing with your smartphone.

It is expected to see the Isis service with NFC chip enabled BlackBerry smartphones within the next 18 months.

via Electronista

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BlackBerry PlayBook webcast series for developers starts tomorrow!

As we mentioned a little while back, Research In Motion is starting up their series of five webcasts to help get developers started on the BlackBerry PlayBook. The first of the five “Develop for the BlackBerry Tablet OS SDK for Adobe AIR” webcasts will actually be held tomorrow and will guide you through the process of installing, setting up BlackBerry PlayBook SDK and get you started on building applications. Research In Motion experts will be there as well as Adobe experts to answer any questions you may have throughout the process.

Date: Thursday, November 4, 2010
Time: 2:00 PM EST / 11:00 AM PST
Presenters: Prosanta Bhattacherjee, Application Development Consultant, Research In Motion Limited and Renaun Erickson, Adobe Developer Evangelist, Adobe Systems Incorporated

We’ve already got to see a ton of great PlayBook apps from developers around the world and this, is just the beginning. Be sure to sign up for the webcast series if you’re interested in learning more about developing PlayBook apps.

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Adobe Acrobat X: PDF Support Coming to BlackBerry (Tablet OS)

I was browsing around and came across the Adobe Acrobat X Pro page and Adobe announced today the Acrobat solution X, a family of products including X software such as Adobe Acrobat, will bring support for Adobe PDF documents on different mobile platforms. The new product family will bring support for Adobe PDF documents on different mobile platforms such Android, BlackBerry and even WindowsPhone7 Tablet OS.

In English, it seems that the new Adobe Reader X allows viewing of PDF documents in native and safe. Apparently, the new X Reader will display a security of PDF documents through a secure mode. Since it’s coming to BlackBerry, and we know QNX is the future for RIM, it’s safe to say this will be landing to the BlackBerry Tablet as well. How many can’t wait for this?

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