Thanks to all of our BlackBerry® DevCon Americas 2011 sponsors! Sponsors are listed alphabetically by level below, simply click on a sponsor's name to find out more.
Adobe revolutionizes how the world engages with ideas and information. Our award-winning software and technologies have set the standard for communication and collaboration for more than 25 years, bringing vital and engaging experiences to people across media and to every screen in their lives, at work and at play. The impact of Adobe® software is evident almost everywhere you look. Whether people are collaborating at work, transacting online, or socializing with friends, businesses use Adobe software and technologies to turn digital interactions into richer, high-value experiences that reach across computing platforms and devices to engage people anywhere, anytime. Learn more
Visit us at booth: 300
Solutions Category: Other
Search 4 BBM is the largest BlackBerry® Messenger user base that allows you to do so much more with your BBM. Find your long lost best friend from college, navigate your way across the country without a single map or connect with the handsome stranger across the room. Search 4 BBM's intuitive search engine is your gateway to finding people and small businesses in virtually every professional category. Filter your search by country, city, gender and even age. Connect easily with your social network friends that use BBM and meet new people by picking up signals from other BBM users.Learn more
Visit us at booth: 304
Solutions Category: Startup and Venture Services
Sencha equips developers with frameworks, tools and services to help them build highly functional and engaging Web application experiences using HTML5 and JavaScript. The company’s flagship products, Sencha Ext JS and Sencha Touch, are cross-browser JavaScript frameworks for building rich internet applications for the desktop and mobile devices. They include high-performance, customizable UI building blocks, a well-architected, extensible component model, and an intuitive, easy-to-use API. More than one million developers worldwide — representing more than 150,000 companies — use the Sencha family of open-source software to build amazing application experiences. Visit Sencha on the Web at http://www.sencha.com, and follow us on Twitter@sencha.Learn more
Visit us at booth: 103
The Verizon Developer Community puts innovation in your hands. Don’t miss the opportunity to speak with a Verizon representative at booth 308 and learn about V CAST Apps streamlined testing and certification process for application distribution. V Cast Apps supports both Consumer and Small Business applications distribution for both RIM and Android Operating Systems. To register for the Verizon Developer Community visit http://developer.verizon.comLearn more
Visit us at booth: 308
Solutions Category: Application Marketing Services
iSpeech (www.iSpeech.org) is a leading provider of cloud-based speech technology and mobile apps, including the award winning app, DriveSafe.ly® (www.DriveSafe.ly). Founded in 2007, the company began as a vision to help college students learn by enabling them to listen to text-based study materials. Today, developers, organizations and consumers worldwide choose iSpeech for its high quality, scalable and easy to use text-to-speech (TTS), automated speech recognition (ASR) and voice to text solutions. The iSpeech Cloud has been used over a billion times. iSpeech® is a privately held company headquartered in Newark, NJ with offices in San Francisco and New York.Learn more
Visit us at booth: 402
Marmalade lets developers build and distribute cross-platform applications quickly, easily and without compromise. Cross-platform technology provides the best performance and the best portability - and all within the industry’s most open and flexible development environment. That’s why tens of thousands of the world’s leading developers are using Marmalade. Leading publishers including Electronic Arts, Konami and Square Enix; OEMs such as Samsung and RIM; operators like Korea Telecom; processor platforms like ARM; apps developers like Gameshastra, RoadPilot, WorkSnug, Playsoft and NaturalMotion, as well as thousands of indies. They all know that the richest cross-platform applications are made with Marmalade. Learn more
Visit us at booth: 306
Solutions Category: Software Libraries and SDKs
New Toronto Group is an Elite Research In Motion® (RIM®) Partner with a strong focus on training and application development since 2002. NTG is RIM’s primary developer of Application Development training courseware for BlackBerry® PlayBook™ tablets and BlackBerry® smartphones. NTG also delivers instructor-led RIM Authorized training for application development on BlackBerry smartphones and BlackBerry Playbook (using Adobe® Flex® and Adobe® AIR®, BlackBerry® WebWorks™ SDK, and native QNX). NTG also develops custom mobile solutions for enterprise clients. NTG’s mobile application development customers include Chrysler, Direct Energy and Sunnybrook Hospital. NTG’s BlackBerry device services include: Application Development, Mentoring, Best Practices, Architecture and Code Reviews.Learn more
Visit us at booth: 302
Solutions Category: Training and Development
Xtreme Labs is a leading mobile strategy and product development company based in Toronto, Canada and Palo Alto, California. With over 125 in-house mobile experts, the firm develops custom applications and products on all handsets and tablets, and has won multiple awards for it's innovative work. Xtreme Labs provides an end-to-end service that includes consultation, design, development, testing and maintenance. The firm’s North American clients include some of the most recognizable brands in the media, finance, healthcareand telecom sectors.Learn more
Visit us at booth: 406
Solutions Category: Custom Application Development
Leveraging the power of the Write Less, Do More JavaScript library, jQuery Team Members launched appendTo to train and support jQuery & JavaScript programmers. The mission of this innovative company is to bridge the growing gap in front-end web development best practices through consulting, training and support worldwide.Learn more
Visit us at booth: 106
App-Promo is a full service marketing, advertising and PR firm specializing in the promotion of mobile apps. We work closely with developers, brands and agencies to develop consumer insights, build marketing and promotion plans, acquire more customers and drive mobile sales. Whether launching a new game, a break through music service, building a sports channel, or developing a travel or other mobile application, App-Promo is there to help you succeed. Learn more
Visit us at booth: 107
A Sponsor at Devcon for third year in succession, Grabba is proud to present the latest technology attachments to extend your applications for Enterprise. With the addition of the EntermoCase, now you can have a Grabba for EVERY work environment. We are focused on providing attachments for BlackBerry® smartphones to capture data from Barcodes, RFID devices, Mag-Stripe Cards, Contact and Non-Contact Smartcards, Fingerprints, OCR (MRZ for Passports) and many more. With Grabba your code works for every Grabba model without change. If you want to use any form of data capture or uplift technology Grabba is your best choice.Learn more
Visit us at booth: 207
Metova provides custom smartphone and tablet application development services to the world’s most respected brands. From strategy to design to development to quality assurance to deployment, Metova can assist you with every step of taking your concept to market. Need a world class application developed in just weeks? Contact Metova today to discuss your next product. We move fast; can you keep up? Learn more
Visit us at booth: 101
Perfecto Mobile is a global leading provider of cloud-based testing, automation and monitoring solutions for mobile applications and websites, utilizing a wide selection of REAL mobile smartphones and tablets accessible via the web. Perfecto’s MobileCloud™ enables developers located anywhere in the world to develop, test, deploy and monitor their mobile applications and services without having to physically obtain the devices. The newly launched ‘MobileCloud for BlackBerry’ offers access to the latest BlackBerry® smartphones including pre-launch BlackBerry 7 OS. Among Perfecto Mobile customers and partners are RIM, Motorola, Bank of America, Sunlife Financial and more. Learn more
Visit us at booth: 105
Polar Mobile provides media companies globally an industry-leading Platform that makes it fast and easy to launch branded mobile Apps across every smartphone. Over 1,200 mobile Apps are powered by Polar Mobile’s SMART™ Platform for 300 media Publishers in 10 countries, which include top tier magazines, newspapers, broadcasters and online portals across news, sports, entertainment and lifestyle media verticals. Learn more
Visit us at booth: 206
Rhomobile Inc. offers the most modern and powerful enterprise mobility suite on the market today. At the foundation of their complete mobility solution is Rhodes, the world’s leading open source cross-platform framework for enterprise mobility. In addition, Rhomobile offers the first universal mobile application integration server, RhoConnect, allowing instant integration between enterprise applications and mobile devices. Founded in 2008 and with a full Mobile Enterprise Application Platform, including app distribution and management, the company’s award winning software has thousands of active developers and is ideal for independent software vendors, system integrators and enterprises of all sizes. Learn more
Visit us at booth: 205
TeleCommunication Systems, Inc. (TCS) is a world leader in highly reliable and secure mobile communication technology. TCS infrastructure forms the foundation for market leading solutions in E9-1-1, text messaging, commercial location and deployable wireless communications. TCS is at the forefront of new mobile cloud computing services providing wireless applications for navigation, hyper-local search, asset tracking, social applications and telematics.Learn more
Visit us at booth: 202
Universal Mind is a digital solutions agency—a new breed that fuses the capabilities of an interactive agency with the technical expertise of a systems integrator. We design and develop custom software solutions for Fortune 500 companies and forward-thinking brands to create an exceptional customer experience. We’re passionate about user experiences, and the emerging technologies behind them. We’ve spent close to a decade channeling these passions—together with in-depth strategy, strong visual and interaction design, and robust technology capabilities—into helping our clients deliver highly effective digital experiences. Our clients include Verizon, American Greetings, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, Research In Motion®, Kodak, and FedEx. Learn more
Visit us at booth: 102
Wikitude is an early pioneer in mobile augmented reality (AR) and the creator of the internationally renowned Wikitude World Browser for smartphones including BlackBerry® smartphones. Wikitude has been voted “Best Augmented Reality Browser” by the readers of Augmented Planet in both 2009 and 2010 and is leading the international AR technology standardization as part of the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC). More information on Wikitude can be found here: www.wikitude.comLearn more
Visit us at booth: 201
Solutions Category: Independent Software Vendor - Consumer
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@chrisjblack I installed the SDK today (Win7-64, FB 4.6) and the devices appeared in the list. Could it be a Win7 permission issue? ^TW.
about 57 minutes ago from BlackBerryDev
@BensmithB Keep your eyes on the http://t.co/R7cwKM3K webpage. ^TW.
about 1 hour ago from BlackBerryDev
@barti87 Unfortunately not today, but we are looking at some ways you can use to hide the unwanted applications ^RH.
@kimwinther Can you send us your App Name and Vendor Name? We'll take a look ^RH.
@lewellyn Ah, neat. I don't know of any plans for something like that, but it'd make a good feature request: http://t.co/E8CqL9n6 ^PB.
about 2 hours ago from BlackBerryDev
Apps built in the BlackBerry App Generator can be integrated automatically with #BBM and other social networks. http://t.co/wnUmSlH2 ^EO.
PROBLEM: Signature tool stops responding while signing. SOLUTION: http://t.co/S4TltDEM ^JD.
about 3 hours ago from BlackBerryDev
@raquibulbari I believe we've got some planned, and I hope to have more information shortly. ^TW.
@chrisjblack Are you referring to the device list for running on the desktop? Which OS and FB version are you on? ^TW.
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about 4 hours ago from BlackBerry Developer Community
@lewellyn Not sure what you mean. Are you talking about a view that shows you all the slots/signals or something? Got a screenshot?^PB.
about 4 hours ago from BlackBerryDev
What kind of updates on the #BBdev blog do you find most helpful? #JustCurious ^JD.
@kokosinskie3 BlackBerry 10 Jam World Tour site is now live. Access it here for final dates and registration:http://t.co/UmkpjPrK^MS.
@jansensan Thanks for this, I understand what you're referring to now. I've passed this to our web team to resolve. ^EO.
5 things that are cool about #BlackBerry 10, according to @Mashable: http://t.co/ouWbYS6t ^EO.
@kokosinskie3 Yes, these dates should be final. http://t.co/gx7ajVoZ ^MS.
about 5 hours ago from BlackBerryDev
@brandondely BB 10 is coming to the PlayBook, but we have not stated timing for the release yet. You cannot test Cascades there yet. ^MS.
@neothefrenchie Registration hasn't opened yet. Keep your eyes on http://t.co/ptkoZYqy for updates! ^JD.
@RPimpsner As soon as you log in and click 'Post for Sale'. There is a cache; not more than a few hours from when you click that button ^RH.
One of the best parts of Cascades: animated UI elements! They all have signature animations (and they look great). http://t.co/1S6Vx116 ^EO.