Blue Bird Group, the largest taxi company in Indonesia, has officially launched its mobile app today at Plaza Indonesia Extension, Jakarta. It’s not just for Blackberry anymore, but they have now also published the app on Android and iOS. With it, you can reserve a cab right through your mobile phone. We all know traffic can get bad here in Jakarta, and this can really help customers to book rather than waiting on the roadside which can sometimes be dangerous. Blue Bird promises safe and convenient travel, and with this initiative ...
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Indonesian Startup Brings Instagram Fun to BlackBerry [INTERVIEW]
We all know how famous Instagram is with millions of users snapping and sharing grungy pictures with it on their iPhones - even in Indonesia. Yet, with most of us smartphone fans here having a Blackberry by our side, we wish it would be ported to RIM’s (NASDAQ:RIMM) OS. Our wish has sort of come true - perhaps for the second time, as Pikubo tried back in August - with BibbyCam (pictured above), which was made by Grace Tahir and Ronald Komalaputra. Although not officially launched yet, the app has gained ...
Nov 22 2011
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With Bangkok Floods Ongoing, RIM Relocates Devcon Asia 2011
According to an e-mail sent out to the press, RIM (NASDAQ:RIMM) is officially relocating Blackberry Devcon Asia 2011. Thailand was supposed to be the place where RIM would hold the event, but as most of you now know, that nation is facing a terrible flood disaster in the capital of Bangkok. Below is an excerpt from the notice sent out by RIM: Due to the current high levels of flooding in Bangkok, Research In Motion (RIM) has decided BlackBerry DevCon Asia will not take place in Bangkok this year. The decision was ...
Nov 22 2011
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Yahoo Koprol, in Major App Update, Now Integrates With BBM6
Yahoo Koprol, the first location-based social network in Indonesia, has announced that a major update to the Koprol app for BlackBerry has integrated it into Blackberry Messenger 6 (BBM6), the newest version of the hit group-messaging service. With this integration there are interesting features that will be made available. There’s a real-time chatting feature with Koprol users through the BBM6 API, which is really exciting because with Koprol on your Blackberry, you just have to follow that user on Koprol and you don’t need to ask for their Blackberry PIN. It’s ...
Nov 18 2011
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RIM Finally Opens a Blackberry Store in Indonesia
The first Blackberry Lifestyle store has finally opened for Blackberry-loving Indonesia over at Mal Kelapa Gading 3 in Jakarta. With a 50 percent discount of any Blackberry products for the first 250 individuals, more than a hundred people queued to enter the opening of the store. The Blackberry Lifestyle Store isn’t quite like a normal store that sells Blackberry handsets, they do sell Blackberrys, but RIM (NASDAQ:RIMM) has put a lively touch on its retail space taking a page from what Apple did with theirs. This shouldn’t be confused with ...
Nov 16 2011
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RIM Launches Blackberry Bold 9790 and Blackberry Curve 9380 in Indonesia
RIM (NASDAQ:RIMM) have officially launched its latest handsets, the Blackberry Bold 9790 and Blackberry Curve 9380, at an event in Jakarta. Indonesia was chosen to be the first country to enjoy the newest OS 7 and NFC-equipped smartphone. We recently saw the Blackberry Bold 9900 & Torch 9810 launched not too long ago, but yet RIM is offering the Blackberry nation new smartphones to crave. So what’s new about these two smartphones? The Blackberry Bold 9790 is quite similar to its brother, the Bold 9900, which offers both touch and a QWERTY ...
Nov 15 2011
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India’s Check-in Service Mojostreet Finds One Mobile Platform Outperforms Others
Earlier this year we told you about Indian location-based service Mojostreet, a promising start-up that received $350,000 in funding in April. As we mentioned before, the service is very much a check-in service like Foursquare or Gowalla, but with an interesting twist that allows you to use Mojobucks to buy a location (ala Monopoly). Read more about how it works in our previous piece. We just received some stats from the service’s founder Kaylan providing some insights into how mobile users are using Mojostreet. It might surprise you which mobile platform ...
Nov 13 2011
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RIM to Hold BBM Apps Hackathon in Indonesia
After launching its latest smartphone in Indonesia, RIM (NASDAQ:RIMM) is bringing the BBM Apps Hackathon to the nation as well. The handset maker is inviting top talents in Indonesia from developer communities to exchange ideas, and build great apps on top of the RIM’s new social platform in a two-day intensive program. RIM previously invited developers to submit their apps, whether still an idea stage or if you already have a working prototype. Developers were also asked to write an essay about how the social platform can add more value to ...
Nov 10 2011
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MapmyIndia Will Lead You to Businesses, Places, With New ShowNearby App
Today, MapmyIndia has launched a useful location-based service (LBS) app called ShowNearby that leads users to nearby places and venues, such as restaurants, gas stations, ATMs, and stores. ShowNearby is a free app for iPhone, Android, and BlackBerry. It’s actually a collaboration between ShowNearby, a Singaporean start-up that specializes in LBS (and that already has separate apps on those three platform), and the Indian digital mapping experts. This tie-up brings a sort of home-grown Google Places-like service to India for the first time. But ShowNearby’s cleverer than just that (from a monetizing ...
Oct 13 2011
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Blackberry Blackout Gets Animated, RIM Claims Services Improving
RIM’s BlackBerry woes continue today as it scrambles to recover from a service disruption that has gone on since Monday. The company says that “all services across Europe, the Middle East and Africa, as well as India, have been operating with significant improvement." The Wall Street Journal says that in Japan, where BlackBerry is carried by Docomo, domestic services are uninterrupted although users may have issues communicating with those in affected areas. The report cites a Docomo spokesperson as saying “RIM has told us that Japan isn’t among the regions where ...
Oct 11 2011
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Blackberry Services Back in India After Global Glitch
Services have reportedly been restored for Blackbery smartphone users in Europe, the Middle East, and Africa after users reported problems yesterday with email, instant messaging, and internet access. Users in India were affected by the outage as well, reportedly as many as three to four million. RIM has not stated what has caused the problem, nor is there any press release that we can find regarding the issue in its main website’s newsroom. The company did however discuss the problem via one of its Twitter account, @BlackBerryHelp (see below). .bbpBox{background:url(http://a2.twimg.com/profile_background_images/304593792/twitter-background-8_4_2011.jpg) ...
Oct 5 2011
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RIM Promises to Invest in R&D in Indonesia, But No Data Centers
Canadian BlackBerry maker Research In Motion (RIM) has promised to make an investment in Indonesia, in the wake of its recent troubles in the country. But there are caveats: the investment is not about creating data centers, as the government has previously demanded. RIM’s investment is related only to R&D, and only in terms of software development. This promise from RIM came after Indonesia’s minister for economic affairs, Hatta Rajasa, met with a Canada delegation and a RIM executive in Jakarta recently. As quoted by MetroTV, Rajasa explained: The investment ...
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