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Origin8 Technologies are pleased to announce the release of Poker Buddy, a rich, fully featured tournament manager and poker timer for the BlackBerry. Poker Buddy can be purchased from the Origin8 website at http://origin8.com/pokerbuddy/index_bb.php and the new BlackBerry App World at the price of $4.99/£3.95/€4.29.

Poker Buddy provides all the functions you need to keep your home poker tournament running smoothly, whichever major rules variant is in play. The clock will keep track of your tournament and blind levels while the extensive player list will make it easy to track knockouts, re-buys and add-ons. Email your players with automatic tournament reports after the game!

Features:

*  Clear clock display and crisp tournament sounds.
*  Fully configurable blinds, structures, prizes and players.
*  Save and load your games. Your current game is automatically saved if you are interrupted.
*  Manage multiple tournament profiles for quick and easy game setups.
*  Statistics reports can be automatically e-mailed to the players after the game.
*  The tournament can continue even while the app is inactive.
*  Post your tournament online so anyone with a browser can check on the progress.

More information and screenshots can be found at http://origin8.com/pokerbuddy/index_bb.php. Further enquiries are welcome, please contact pr@origin8.com. Poker Buddy is also available for the Apple iPhone/iPod Touch: http://www.itunes.com/app/pokerbuddy.

About us:

Origin8 is an innovative new developer specialising in Apple iPhone/iPod Touch and Blackberry products. Founded by industry veterans Jez San & Foo Katan, Origin8’s vibrant team is based in Camden, London, UK. For more information see http://www.origin8.com.

Below some reviews from Blackberry Bold

From CNET editors’ review Blackberry Bold:

It’s been a good six months since Research in Motion first announced the RIM BlackBerry Bold (aka RIM BlackBerry 9000). Originally slated for a summer release on AT&T, the launch date kept getting pushed back…and back. Frustrated with the delays and wooed by other new smartphone releases, we moved on (and so did many of you) and nearly gave up on the Bold. However, now that we finally have it hand, the love affair has begun all over again.

The BlackBerry Bold delivers on a number of fronts. Its half-VGA display is one of the sharpest screens we’ve seen on a smartphone, which, combined with the stereo speakers, really boosts the multimedia experience. The Bold also ships with the latest BlackBerry operating system, new productivity applications, and support for HSDPA, Wi-Fi, GPS, and Bluetooth. This is on top of all the great messaging capabilities. Of course, it’s not perfect. The smartphone isn’t the sleekest device on the block, and the Web browser could use more work. It’s also not going to have the mass appeal of an Apple iPhone 3G, nor would we recommend it to the general consumer. With its feature set and strong e-mailing capabilities, the BlackBerry Bold is very much a business-centric smartphone, but what is offers mobile professionals is a premium device that can handle work and play. The RIM BlackBerry Bold will be available November 4 for a slightly pricey $299.99 with a two-year contract and after rebates and discounts.

From Gizmodo about Blackberry Bold:

This is RIM’s best phone ever. Does that mean it’s the phone for you? If you’re a BlackBerry fanatic, yes—it really is the phone you’ve been waiting for, if you’re not hoping RIM radically changed the recipe. Because they didn’t. It’s cleaner and brighter, but it’s not an overhaul by any means. It’s a more powerful and beautiful distillation of the same experience.

For other people who were eyeing it as the time to switch to BlackBerry, the issue is less straightforward. As I said in the intro, it’s coming into a complicated world, where it has more consumer crossover appeal than a flagship RIM device—currently, the 8800—ever has before. (No doubt, even more people are looking at it in light of 3G problems on other handsets, either suit-and-ties who were considering the jump, or people looking for their first high-end smartphone, though more of the former.) At its heart, this thing is a corporate workhouse. It will play movies, music, browse the internet and all of the things consumers usually want—and do it well—but it is coming from a different mindset than the iPhone, something to keep in mind if you’re torn between these two phones.

This is a great story that Ticketmaster Entertainment Inc. and Tickets.com Inc. are launching services to let customers buy tickets directly from their mobile phones, in an ambitious attempt to extend Internet commerce to cellphone screens. Starting this month, U.S. and Canadian BlackBerry users will be able to search Ticketmaster’s inventory and purchase tickets on their handsets. Tickets.com will let baseball fans buy and receive tickets via cellphone from 13 Major League Baseball teams starting with the April 10 opening home game of the Oakland A’s. Tickets.com is a subsidiary of MLB Advanced Media, LP, the interactive media and Internet company of Major League Baseball.

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Co-CEO of RIM, Mike Lazaridis is scheduled for today’s stage in Las Vegas at the CTIA show and all eyes focused on RIM’s answer to Apple App Store. While expressing his wish that RIM has held off on launching BlackBerry App Lazaridis world “to speak, nothing could have prevented the stroke of midnight announcement. So, ladies and germs, I present to you BlackBerry App world. S ‘ Please make sure you have a PayPal account, OS 4.2 or higher and a trackball or touch screen SurePress (aka Storm) BlackBerry before proceeding.

I must say that BAW is much better than the first screen that RIM has released many months. But before diving into it, you should download the BAW store. Can be found here and there from your BlackBerry and experience the awesomeness that is navigation BAW. A circle logo with the BlackBerry icon on your desktop.
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