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

I honestly can’t imagine that you’re bored if you have a BlackBerry since you probably don’t stop receiving emails, but in case you’re all caught up with your email (just as unlikely), you should head on over to wattpad.com and download their BlackBerry client to start reading and sharing stories via your mobile. The site and software is free of charge.

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Bored? Try wattpad.com

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Bored? Try wattpad.com

Jason from DataViz wrote in a couple weeks ago about the port of Documents To Go to the BlackBerry platform.

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Documents To Go for BlackBerry

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Documents To Go for BlackBerry

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

Joe from Pinger.com wrote back March (wow I’m way behind, sorry!) about some new functionality that they’re offering over via Pinger.com that gives you the ability to send voice mails to anyone in your Pinger.com address book by calling pinger (858-274-6437), saying the name of your contact and then leaving a voice mail. The really cool part come next though: you can create ‘groups’ on pinger.com and then leave a voice mail that gets distributed to all the members of the group by saying the name of the group and then leaving your voice mail. One of the less noticed parts of this that I like is that your contacts don’t live on the phone: one of the biggest pains is moving from one phone or carrier to another only to have to re-enter all your contacts and all your phone numbers.

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Pinger… really cool

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Pinger… really cool

A couple weeks ago I got an email from Marc at MobilePlay about a new service they’re offering called eXpress It!, which is billed as a Social Networking Service for mobile phone users. The service allows you to create a web page via your web browser that you then send to your phone (which they can do for you) and then you can forward that page to any of the people in your address book either by sending an email (probably the preferred method if you already have a BlackBerry) or by MMS.

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MySpace for your BlackBerry?

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MySpace for your BlackBerry?

Ramsey from Sena Cases wrote to let me know about the new leather cases they’re offering for the BlackBerry 8800 model.

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New Leather Cases for BlackBerry 8800 from Sena

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New Leather Cases for BlackBerry 8800 from Sena

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