Twitter has acquired Spindle, a mobile application for learning about what’s happening nearby, the companies announced Wednesday.

In a blog post announcing the sale, Spindle said:

The application acts like a local search engine, powered by social data from Facebook and Twitter. 

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AIS Thailand have officially released OS 7.1.0.990 for the BlackBerry Curve 9320.

While this is an official release, remember to use caution when updating your device and back it up before proceeding with any upgrade.

If you do install this OS, let us know in the forums any findings, fixes or anything else.

Download the OS from AIS Thailand here.

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The British Airways App is now available for the BlackBerry Z10 from BlackBerry World.

The British Airways app gives you instant access to live information about your upcoming flights, has full integration with your Executive Club details, adds your bookings into your BlackBerry calendar and you can even use your BlackBerry® as a boarding pass.

Features:

Dynamic home page and mobile boarding passes
Get useful information about your next flight including live departure time and gate numbers (from Heathrow Terminal 5). With just one click, you can access your mobile boarding pass which lets you go from security right through to the plane using just your BlackBerry® . See ba.com/apps for the full list of routes accepting the mobile boarding pass.

My flights
Review your upcoming flight bookings and add them to your BlackBerry® calendar. You can also receive calendar alerts when check-in is open for your flight.

Executive club
Easy access to information about your Tier Points, BA Miles, and Executive Club details. Silver and Gold members also get easy access to the Wi-Fi passwords for our lounges.

Flight information
Find live arrival or departure times for any flight in the next eight days.

Timetables
Access the British Airways worldwide timetable.

You can also check in on your mobile phone, see worldwide contact numbers and the latest British Airways travel news.

Everyone can use the British Airways app, but for the best experience log in to your Executive Club account. You can join the Executive Club for free on ba.com.

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Vodafone Group Plc has raised its preliminary offer to buy Germany’s largest cable operator, Kabel Deutschland Holding AG, a day after U.S. media group Liberty Global Plc made a rival bid, Bloomberg reported on Tuesday, citing people familiar with the bid.

Bloomberg reported that Vodafone told Kabel Deutschland this week that it would be willing to pay 85 euros a share compared with its initial offer of 80 euros to 82 euros for the German company.

Vodafone is said to be studying Kabel Duetschland’s books before making an official offer, Bloomberg said.

Liberty Global, which owns Unity Media, Germany’s second biggest cable operator, made an 85 euro a share offer days after the British mobile company said it was in talks about a deal.

Vodafone’s revised offer matches the Liberty Global bid valuing Kabel Deutschland at 7.5 billion euros ($10.04 billion).

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Following a backlash from subscribers, MTN has brought back unlimited internet access to BlackBerry users.

In February, MTN told its BlackBerry subscribers that the BlackBerry Internet Service from MTN would be capped at 200 megabytes and was to be referred to as BlackBerry Absolute for R59 a month.

It was the out-of-bundle rate of 65c a megabyte, which applied when the 200MB limit was reached, that infuriated subscribers, who threatened to move to Vodacom or Cell C.

MTN claimed the plan was to make the network more efficient.

However, this week, MTN subscribers received an SMS that read:

“Yello! MTN has brought back your unlimited service on BlackBerry Absolute. Your service will not be capped to 200MB. Continue to enjoy a world-class experience with MTN on your BlackBerry.”

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Limited number exclusively available to customers for one day at new BlackBerry-branded Retail Store in Dubai Mall.

Dubai, UAE, 19 June, 2013 – Tomorrow, BlackBerry® fans in the UAE will be the first in the world to be able to buy the BlackBerry® Q5 smartphone, a new fun, youthful BlackBerry® 10 smartphone. From 17.00 local UAE time, customers can line-up at the brand new BlackBerry-branded retail store in the Dubai Mall to witness the unveiling of the all new BlackBerry Q5 smartphone, which will retail for AED 1,499. A limited number of the new smartphones will be exclusively available for early sale for the opening day of the store. Customers will also have the opportunity to pre-order the smartphone at the store, which will be widely available next month from authorized carriers and retailers in the UAE and across the Middle East.

The all new BlackBerry® Q5 smartphone features a QWERTY keyboard in a stunning, youthful design that is confident and makes it easy for customers to have fun, create, share and stay connected. Available in red, white and black, the BlackBerry Q5 smartphone offers a powerful and unique mobile computing experience with its cutting-edge BlackBerry 10 functionality. Features and apps work seamlessly together, allowing your every move to flow into the next. With its classic QWERTY keyboard re-engineered for optimized communications and its 3.1” touchscreen, the BlackBerry Q5 smartphone gives you the best of both worlds.

The BlackBerry Q5 smartphone comes with the BlackBerry 10.1 software. As part of the BlackBerry 10 experience, a peek into the BlackBerry® Hub lets you stay close to what’s important to you without stopping what you’re doing. Create the perfect shot every time with BlackBerry Time Shift, and tell your story using BlackBerry Story Maker and share with friends on Facebook. Use BBM video and Screen Share, and discover the more than 120,000 apps available on the BlackBerry® World™ storefront.

For information on pricing, promotions and availability please check with your carrier or retailer. For more information on BlackBerry 10, please visit www.blackberry.com/blackberry10.

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With the BlackBerry Q5 about to hit the UK sometime next month, BlackBerry UK have released the first advertisement for the mid-level  BlackBerry  10 device.

The advertisement clearly shows what the device can do – which is a vast improvement over previous ads.

Discover the amazing new BlackBerry Q5 smartphone. A world of entertainment, communications, fast internet plus many more totally new features. All accessible via the famous and unique BlackBerry Qwerty keyboard.

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BlackBerry today announced the launch of the BlackBerry Q10 smartphone in Australia.

The Q10 is expected to be available for purchase with competitive pricing plans from Optus and Telstra on July 1 and 2 respectively and from retailers Harvey Norman and JB HiFi.

The Q10 features 16GB of internal storage which can be expanded via a microSD card slot, a 3.1-inch touch display with a resolution of 720 x 720 pixels and pixel density of 330 pixels per inch. The device is powered by a Qualcomm Snapdragon S4 chip with a 1.5GHz quad-core processor and 2GB of RAM.

In the camera department, the Q10 sports an 8-megapixel camera with autofocus and a 5-element f2.2 lens. The rear camera can capture 1080p videos and comes equipped with BlackBerry’s Time Shift mode for pinpointing and adjusting individual elements of a picture. There’s also a front-facing 2-megapixel camera that can capture 720p videos.

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Over 1000 square feet dedicated to Blackberry will open to the public on June 20th at 5 PM

Dubai, UAE, 18 June 2013 – BlackBerry® fans in the Middle East can celebrate as the first BlackBerry Retail Concept Store in the Middle East will be unveiled for customers on Thursday, June 20th 2013 at 5 PM.

Located on level two of the Dubai Mall, conveniently close to the Dubai Metro Link, the BlackBerry store will provide UAE residents and visitors a chance to experience the latest models through live demo’s, as well as to pre-register for upcoming smartphones.

For the first time in the Middle East, UAE-based users and Dubai Mall visitors will experience a personalised BlackBerry-branded service that will reflect the priority and importance given to the region by the global smartphone brand.

The new store will also ensure local users are taking full advantage of their devices thanks to the in-store maintenance and repair service hub offering free software upgrades, data back-up and transfer solutions, product set-up, service collection and warranty verification, as well as the first one-hour repair or replace service in the Middle East.

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Skype announced on Monday that its Video Messaging feature has left preview and is now a full-fledged feature on BlackBerry, iOS and Android handsets, as well as Windows PCs and Mac computers.

Skype announced Video Messaging in February, enabling users to the service to record a video and send it to friends. Skype boasts that the feature is completely free to use, and that Video Messages can be sent even when the recipient is offline.

Skype stated on its blog,

“You can now record and share a personal video message, even when your friends and loved ones are not available. The best part is that they’ll be able to view your video message as soon as they sign into Skype. Skype Video Messaging is easy and convenient, and only the contact you’ve chosen to receive your message can view it.”

To use the feature, you simply tap the Video Message button within a Skype app, followed by the record icon to start filming a new message. Videos can be upto three minutes long, and you’ll be able to watch it before sending it.

“Skype Video Messaging adds another great way to keep in touch with friends and family during life’s most meaningful moments. Send a video message to your friends and family today-it’s easy,”

Skype Video Messaging is available now on BlackBerry, iOS, Android, Mac, and Windows, although there’s not yet a Windows Phone app available.

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The latest big Guardian exposé claims that the U.K. government spied on G20 summit meeting guests in London using various methods.  British spies have reportedly succeeded in cracking the security of BlackBerry’s,.

This most recent report, shows how British intelligence agencies monitored calls and online communications of foreign delegations at two G20 summits in London four years ago. It also comes as Britain hosts a G8 summit that starts today.

That program was run by the Government Communications Headquarters, known as GCHQ, an electronic eavesdropping group.

They did this, according to The Guardian, by setting up Internet cafes at the summit at which they could intercept traffic, and using key-logging programs. Some 45 analysts tracked the data.

As The Guardian notes, however, the program was less aimed at security threats and more at “securing an advantage in meetings.”

So far in this global controversy, attention has focused on how the U.S. National Security Agency ran a program known as Prism, aimed at scouring information from foreigners via e-mail, online chats, pictures, video conferencing and social networking. Companies caught up in the program included Apple Inc., Facebook Inc., Microsoft Corp., Yahoo Inc., YouTube, Skype and others.

There was no mention in U.S. documents, however, of Canada’s Research In Motion Ltd. and its highly secure BlackBerry.

But documents seen by The Guardian suggest Britain’s intelligence groups cracked it, though there are no details of what that involved.

“New converged events capabilities against BlackBerry provided advance copies of G20 briefings to ministers,” according to a document reported by The Guardian.

“… Diplomatic targets from all nations have an MO of using smartphones. Exploited this use at the G20 meetings last year.”

On its website, the newspaper posted part of the document, with bits blacked out.

Notable is a section that boasted of “recent successes,” and what the GCHQ was able to provide British analysts and politicians during the summit, where BlackBerry devices were concerned:

“Delivered messages to analysts during the G20 in near real-time. Provided timely information to UK ministers. Enabled discovery of 20 new e-mail selectors.”

These would have been older models of the BlackBerry.

“While we cannot comment on media reports regarding alleged government surveillance of telecommunications traffic, we remain confident in the superiority of BlackBerry’s mobile security platform for customers using our integrated device and enterprise server technology,” BlackBerry said in a statement today.

“Our public statements and principles have long underscored that there is no ‘back door’ pipeline to that platform. Our customers can rest assured that BlackBerry mobile security remains the best available solution to protect their mobile communications.”

According to The Guardian report, much of this was targeted at South Africa, whose government said today it was concerned.

“We do not yet have the full benefit of details reported on but in principle we would condemn the abuse of privacy and basic human rights particularly if it emanates from those who claim to be democrats,” the Department of International Relations and Cooperation said in a statement.

“We have solid, strong and cordial relations with the United Kingdom and would call on their government to investigate this matter fully with a view to take  strong and visible action against any perpetrators.”

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Partner Communications (Orange) and Pelephone Communications today announced the launch of the BlackBerry Z10 in Israel.

Both Partner and Pelephone won’t charge extra for using the phone as part of using the operators’ service package. In the past this cost NIS 20 or NIS 30 monthly.

Partner will sell the Z10 for NIS 3,167 including a 16 GB memory card.

Pelephone will sell the Z10 for NIS 3,030.

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