Datepedia is the ultimate BlackBerry calendar companion with hundreds of dates for national holidays, religious holidays, sporting events and more! Simply select dates and export them to your BlackBerry calendar at the click of a button.

Need to remember a birthday or anniversary? Now you can add your own dates at any time so you’ll never forget that important event! Not sure if Valentine’s Day is Saturday or Sunday this year? With Datepedia in your phone you’ll never have to wonder again!

• View dates for national holidays from multiple countries including US, UK, India, Germany, France, Spain, Italy and more
• View Christian, Jewish and Islamic religious holidays including descriptions of each holiday
• View dates for major sporting events including BCS Bowl Games, Golf Major Events, Tennis Grand Slam, Auto Racing, Olympics, World Cup Finals and more
• View dates for multiple years including 2009 and 2010
• Keep track of personal events such as birthdays and anniveraries while on the go
• Choose from multipe export options to save Datepedia events to your BlackBerry calendar
• View event dates in List View or Calendar Month View with day of week for each event
• Quickly search for any dates by category or name, and filter search by year for faster look-up
• Includes option for viewing all events or upcoming events only

via mobatech.com

When you’re in the market for a new BlackBerry is security your number one priority?  Probably not but if you’re one of those people who like to keep your data secure then you should already know about the BlackBerry firewall.  I am willing to bet there are lots of BlackBerry owners who don’t even know the firewall exists.  This is because RIM now ships their phones with the firewall disabled by default but this wasn’t always the case.
Older BlackBerry devices came with the firewall already enabled so at one point or another you knew it was there.  The new firewall settings are due in large part to the BlackBerry becoming more of an everyday smartphone as opposed to just a business one.  RIM has also beefed up the security software and there are now a bunch of new security features.  With that being said, is the BlackBerry firewall even necessary anymore?
As BlackBerry smartphones continue to evolve so will the hackers and they will not stop until they find a way to break into your phone.  The safest way to protect against them is keep your firewall enabled at all times.  This is a no brainer for those of you on the BES because one little intrusion could bring down the whole network.  For the rest of us it’s really a question of how secure you want your BlackBerry to be.
Most people think that the BlackBerry firewall only blocks incoming messages like SMS or MMS texts but in reality it does much more than that.  Even if you have those options turned off the firewall is still running in the background giving you that extra security.  One of the biggest threats to your BlackBerry is third party applications that could potentially inject unwanted spyware into your phone.  This is why the firewall will notify you when you launch a third party app to ask if it’s trusted or not.  It may not be huge deal right now but in the future the firewall will be the only way these attacks are prevented. By Justin , via berryreporter.com

Ever wonder how much time you spend    sending messages on your BlackBerry? How about the amount of time you play Word Mole? A handful of applications will provide you with a rough breakdown, but none I’ve seen are quite as elegant as SmrtMonitor. It’s from the makers of SmrtGuard, a wireless backup and remote tracking service for BIS users. The application tracks how much time you spend on each BlackBerry application and then presents it in a number of formats.

When you open the program you’ll see a list of your most used BlackBerry applications. This includes the amount of time you’ve spend on the application, plus a percentage breakdown. The user in the sample screen shot, you can see, spends about 45 percent of his BlackBerrying time in the messages app. He also likes to remind himself that he spends that much time on his Berry, apparently, because he spends 11 percent of his time on SmrtGuard.

The application provides further detailed information on each application, including the minimum, maximum, and average session times, dates of your first and last usage, and a breakdown by day of the week. You can also sort your master list by different categories, including most and least time, most and least frequent, and most and least recent. SmrtGuard allows you to reset the timer for each application at any time.

If you’re interested in your BlackBerry usage breakdown, you can get SmrtMonitor for $3.99 until December 31. If you aren’t interested, you can find out why I find the name SmrtMonitor so funny. By Joe, via bbgeeks.com

Business communication has taken a number of developments to reach the wider spectrum of customer base. The more instant data is transferred the more profit higher the stake value grows. Internet and smart phones have taken a key role in a business conversation. However, security is also a major concern in data transfer which can break down business secrets. Blackberry is one of the most preferred mobile phone to access internet using mobile broadband

There are a number of security features in a blackberry internet service.

1. A highly secured connection is established in a blackberry browser using SSL encryption. This helps us to protect data against identity theft and unauthorized usage of authentic data. SSL encryption is indicated by a closed lock icon in the upper right hand corner of the browser.

2. Email and instant messages sent using a blackberry use a wireless network encryption provided the messaging server also should support SSL encryption. Email attachments can be protected by turning on the content protection feature.

3. The built in firewall in your blackberry device can be configured to block unencrypted and PIN text messages.

4. Spam email messages can be either blocked using the anti-spam protector or by turning on the email message filter.

5. Login information for the blackberry internet service website is protected using a SSL encryption which protects the username, password and unauthorized access to the account.

6. Blackberry features a password keeper which can help to save all the passwords of the blackberry device. So it’s more than enough to remember just the password of the ‘password keeper.’

7. Content protection allows two types of protection levels: Stronger and Strongest. The first uses a 12 character device password for encryption while the second uses 21 characters.

8. All the data in the media card can be encrypted using the ‘encrypt media file’ option.

9. Locating the GPS information of the blackberry users can block the options like access to third party applications, all third party application, turn off GPS, or blackberry maps if not required.

10. All device applications have an inbuilt virus and spy ware protection which scans all files that is opened in the device to prevent spreading of the malicious codes.

The device is designed to overwrite and frequently clean the cache memory that can help remove unwanted programs. Moreover all data stored manually or automatically by the applications will be deleted permanently if the login password in typed incorrectly for more than 10 times. All these security features have made blackberry one of the preferred communication equipment in the market ofbroadband in UK