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The name “Blackberry App World” does not really have a ring to it and personally I thought it could have been named better. It looks like the folks at RIM have thought the same as well and in a tweet by the Canadian company, they have announced that the Blackberry App World will be no more – instead they are renaming it to Blackberry World, which in all honesty has a better ring to it and just rolls off the tongue a lot better! Interesting in their tweet, they also indicated that in the Blackberry World, they will now be offering music and videos. The official website still reads Blackberry App World so we’re not sure when exactly this new branding will take effect. In any case it certainly seems like RIM is gearing up to launch its Blackberry 10 OS come 30^th January 2013, and this is probably one of steps the company is taking in an effort to relaunch its brand.

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Any BlackBerry 10 developers sufficiently entranced by their Dev Alpha units can now make good on the work they’ve accomplished so far. As promised, RIM is accepting app submissions for the platform ahead of its launch early next year. Fast-acting teams who jump in today should see their titles at the front of the queue when BlackBerry App World starts supporting the modern platform. They’ll have to focus on full-touch hardware rather than mixed QWERTY and touch devices, however. There’s no guarantee that RIM will see a flood of apps after opening its doors, but the company reminds us that there’s incentives to move quickly — 10,000 incentives, in fact.

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RIM opens BlackBerry 10 app submissions originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 10 Oct 2012 13:38:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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In addition to sharing new details about its forthcoming BlackBerry 10 OS, RIM used today’s BlackBerry Jam keynote to make an announcement about App World. The company just revealed that in addition to applications and games, the store will sell music, movies and TV shows — a move that brings it more in line with rival stores like Google Play and Apple’s App Store. That should please App World’s 80 million subscribers (a nice little figure RIM dropped in its keynote just now). Another stat: there are currently 105,000 apps in the store, with 3 billion downloads logged since the store’s opening. And, RIM says, BB 10 applications will join the herd soon: the company will begin accepting submissions on October 10th. Get it? BB 10 on 10/10? Clever, Thorsten.

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BlackBerry App World to sell music and movies, open to BB 10 app submissions on October 10th originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 25 Sep 2012 12:38:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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We all know things aren’t exactly looking bright over at RIM’s Waterloo HQ, but, thankfully, that’s not keeping the company from taking care of its current and very valuable customer base. How so? Well, earlier today the BlackBerry maker announced its official Video Store application is now live in Canada’s App World, giving the PlayBook crowd a hub to buy / rent “thousands” of movies and TV shows. Obviously — similar to iTunes and Google Play on their respective slates — folks will also be able to preview content before taking the plunge, and as a Berry rep told us, there should be no problem with streaming videos to a high-def television via the the tablet’s HDMI output. Video Store Canada, as it’s known by its formal name, is up for download now at the source link below.

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Video Store application for BlackBerry PlayBook now available in Canada originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 25 Jul 2012 13:17:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Not all of the numbers are bad around RIM headquarters. The company’s celebrating the big three billion — that’s the number of app downloads it’s seen since the launch of App World. According to RIM, that number amounts to 2.5 million downloads a day — certainly nothing to sneeze at. Naturally, Research in Motion is using the opportunity to do some “myth busting,” regarding the perceived lack of selection for BlackBerry handsets and the PlayBook tablet. At present, there are 90,000 apps “up for sale” through the mobile app market.

RIM marks three billion BlackBerry app downloads, wants to set the record straight about App World originally appeared on Engadget on Sun, 08 Jul 2012 01:59:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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