Blackberry maker RIM has launched a host of new enterprise and
consumer developer tools to streamline
Blackberry smartphone application development.
The Blackberry developer
tool updates include a new public beta of the Blackberry JDE
Plug-in for Eclipse, as well as new releases of the Blackberry
Plug-in for Microsoft Visual Studio, Blackberry MDS Studio, and the
Plazmic Content Developer's Kit for the
Blackberry platform.
Alan Brenner, senior vice-president of Blackberry Platforms,
said, "Corporate, commercial and entrepreneurial developers have
the flexibility to choose the right tool to support their skill set
and feature requirements, whether they are mobilising their
organisation's business systems or creating new and innovative
mobile applications for consumers."
In addition, with the introduction of the Blackberry Web Signals
technology, content providers can now push notifications to
Blackberry smartphones and enable streamlined mobile access for
their customers.
Blackberry Web Signals uses RIM's push technology to allow
online content providers to automatically notify Blackberry
smartphone users when relevant content has been published and to
allow streamlined, one-click access to the online information.
With online content services powered by Blackberry Web Signals,
said RIM, Blackberry smartphone users can spend less time searching
the web and more time connecting directly to the content that
matters to them personally.
RIM said content providers will offer a range of services
powered by Blackberry Web Signals that enable customers to stay
connected with news, weather, sports, entertainment, and financial
information, for instance.