If you’ve ever been involved in building out a large scale network, you’ve undoubtedly heard about single points of failure. The BlackBerry network itself is a single point of failure as we saw last week: if it goes down, every single person that relies on BlackBerry email is hosed (pun intended: it is a Canadian device!). But for you personally, the biggest single point of failure is probably your battery: if you run out of juice and you don’t have your travel charger, you are, well..

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Emergency Cell Phone Charger

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Emergency Cell Phone Charger

If you’ve got a young kid, you’ve probably got a video camera for capturing all the seemingly normal stuff that we can do as adults but that is just plain amazing when a one year old does it. Thing is, most people don’t carry about portable DVD players to show off all the new stuff that the kid…

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DVD Converter for your BlackBerry

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DVD Converter for your BlackBerry

The guys over at S4BB have released yet another program for your BlackBerry. This one is called vCardMaster and it is a program to attach vCard, vCalendar and iCalendar files to a mail.

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vCardMaster from S4BB

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vCardMaster from S4BB

The guys over at Cognos (business intelligence and performance management software) have started a podcast channel called Radio Cognos where they been discussing some really cool mobility related topics with some big hitters (Jim Balsillie anyone?). You can can subscribe to the show using iTunes or using your own podcatcher software

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Radio Cognos

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Radio Cognos

With the cost of international phone calls through Skype and other VOIP providers so low, I’m not sure why someone would ever choose to use a calling card, but I guess if you’re on the go and don’t have a laptop, then a calling card makes sense. If you’re one of those people, you absolutely must check out the BerryDialer program, available from mobilesoftmarket.com , which gives you the ability to enter one or more calling card numbers into your BlackBerry and then not have to enter them again.

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BerryDialer: Use multiple calling cards on your BlackBerry

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BerryDialer: Use multiple calling cards on your BlackBerry

There’s a number of subway / metro applications available for your BlackBerry, the one Ryan sent me today looks like one of the nicer ones. The screenshots of the maps look really nice, crystal clear almost and the application can overlay your route on map

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Tube 2 for BlackBerry

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Tube 2 for BlackBerry

The guys at NewsGator released version 2.1.8 of the NewsGator Go! for Blackberry product, which is an RSS reader for your BlackBerry. Since I’m a giant feed fan, I though I’d point out two things about this product that are especially important for the enterprise: synchronization: If you read a post in NewsGator Go!, it’s automatically marked as read in any other NewsGator client you use

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NewsGator Go! for BlackBerry v2.1.8

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NewsGator Go! for BlackBerry v2.1.8