After much deliberation over the many interesting entries, we’ve managed to find the 9 folks who score themselves a conference pass to this Wednesday and Thursday’s conference.
Congratulations to:-

Aaron Tan
Chester Chen
Ivan Gn
Paul Chua
Pey Pei Li
Poon Chi Yeong
Stephan M. February
Tan Jian Da Willy
Vishnu Prem

The winners will all be receiving an email from Ridz soon with followup actions.
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And so much of what I experienced in my first 24 hours with the device was a pretty consistent experience. But I thought I’d touch a little more on a few little things I discovered which made using the PlayBook more pleasant.
Taking the PlayBook in and out of Standby mode.
I had been pressing the power [...]

Research in Motion (RIM) has just announced the release of the BlackBerry WebWorks SDK 2.1 for Tablet OS. Some of the key additions to the SDK include:-
BlackBerry In-App Payment API
PlayBook developers will now be able to sell in-app goods directly from their application
Deeper Integration with PlayBook functions through the
Camera API – take pictures and video [...]

Near Field Communication is not new. It’s been around for many years but its initials – NFC – have been making the rounds recently with companies like Nokia, RIM and Samsung rolling out new phones with NFC built in. Google has also put their weight behind it by embracing it as part of the Android [...]

So i received a review unit and i’ve been using the PlayBook very actively over the past 30 hours or so.
If I was impressed by the device before, I’m glad to say that the device has not let me down. So let me just share some thoughts about the experience so far…
Let me first say, [...]

It’s been widely covered that the PlayBook will be released on the 19th April 2011 which runs on the QNX OS. So where does that leave the Java Apps? And what sort of app support can users expect? BlackBerry just announced that they will also be, at some point, releasing two optional “App Players” that [...]

RIM has just made available the BlackBerry Enterprise Server Express for IBM Lotus Domino – a free version server-side software that wirelessly synchronizes email, calendar, contacts, notes and tasks between BlackBerry smartphones and IBM Lotus Domino without compromising security.
It can be downloaded over at http://www.blackberry.com/besexpress
What does this mean for companies?
It means that if your business [...]