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RIM cuts ribbon on BlackBerry app store

BlackBerry maker Research In Motion has launched an app store for its iconic device. BlackBerry App World went live Wednesday morning, 1 April 2009, with some 1,000 applications available.

By Erika Morphy

2 Apr 2009

The site gives developers the option of setting up their own stores - an interesting differentiator from other carriers' app stores, noted ABI Research Senior Analyst Jeff Orr.

A storefront application, App Center, lets developers pull content from App World to add alongside their own content, he told the E-Commerce Times.

Among the applications currently available are Salesforce CRM, AOL Instant Messenger, Yahoo Messenger, MySpace, Facebook, Windows Live Messenger, Bloomberg, ICQ, HRS Hotel Organiser, chat group VH1 Watch and Discuss, Lonely Planet French Phrasebook, Livestrong, Worldmate Live, Brain Challenge 2, and a few news and media applications such as a Web shortcut to the New York Times.

BlackBerry App World works with compatible BlackBerry smartphones running OS version 4.2.0 or higher, including the Bold 9000; the Storm; both the Pearl Series and Pearl Flip Series; the Curve 8300 Series; Curve 8900; and the 8800 Series. Trackwheel devices are not supported.

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