Call Of Duty: Black-Berry

I love my Playstation almost as much as I love my Blackberry; after all they both “Does Everything”.  So it’s always fun when I am able to find the mobile device represented somewhere within the video game platform.

Behold the latest commercial “There’s a soldier in all of us” for the new Call of Duty: Black Ops, one of the smartest advertisements for a video game to date. Even more so… I caught this little gem about 28 seconds in.

It is in fact a Blackberry Bold 9000, and our protagonist takes the Call of Duty.
You can view the full video on the official Call of Duty: Black Ops website.

Canadians Take Lead in Movember Fundraiser

Broke Radio Guy poses with "the animal" at his Toronto home. He is one of many Canadian men taking part in Movember

You may have noticed a lot more facial hair in Canada these past few weeks.  And no, it’s not because of the cooler temperatures.

Thousands of Canadian men have embraced Movember, growing and even naming their new face wares.  I have heard “Caterpillar”, “Handlebar Hank” “Flanders” and even I lovingly call mine “The Animal”.

They are doing this in the spirit of raising awareness and funds for Prostate Cancer.

The Movember race to grow a mustache and raise funds for Prostate Cancer, was started by a group of men in Australia 7 years ago.  Aussies have been winning the fundraising competition since… until this week.

WordPress for Blackberry Updated 1.4.5

Just a quick update to let you know the WordPress for Blackberry App has been updated one notch to 1.4.5. I opened the app to start a story and was prompted to update but it doesn’t appear to be available in Blackberry App World.  Still waiting on a change-log but I am excited as I love this app for blogging on the go.

The number jump seems insignificant and this could just be a bug update, but if you have been keeping track of the  application’s progress then you probably already know that they tend to make significant changes in some of these updates.

Gene Simmons Says “Sue Everybody”

A recent facebook post from a friend helped me decide to re-hash this story from a few months back, while at the same time publicly posting my true opinion on music downloads via peer-to-peer networks such as limewire.

During a MIPCOM conference panel discussion, KISS frontman Gene Simmons said the RIAA’s lawsuit campaign was run by people without the “balls” to sue collegiate file-swappers, down to the very last freckle-faced malefactor. Only all-out legal warfare can save the music business. In case you have been living under a rock the RIAA “Recording Industry Association of America” (and Canada’s version is the CRIA) are basically the overlords of the recording industry. They represent everyone from artists to labels.  Over a three-year period, the RIAA spend $64M to retrieve $1.3M in lost revenue.

I agree their suing practices were ridiculous because they went after people just to make an example of them. Gene Simmons is right about one thing; you can’t win a lawsuit (much less a fundamental argument) against just a couple people for something almost everyone is doing.  According to Simmons everyone who downloads music illegally should be treated like a common criminal.

Tumblr App Upgraded for Iphone and Android

Users of  Tumblr can anticipate a much newer and improved experience via their mobile Android and iPhone devices. 

Tumblr founder David Karp speaks to our friends at Mashable, and describes the overhauled dashboard as “ truly the most beautiful and fun way to browse media on these devices”

All of Tumblr’s blog features including photos, galleries, links, audio, and video, are presented perfectly –- and Tumblr’s native features like reblogging, answer posts, replies, likes; will also be included.

Tumblr lets you effortlessly share anything. Post text, photos, quotes, links, music, and videos, from your browser, phone, desktop, email, or wherever you happen to be. You can customize everything, from colors, to your theme‘s HTML.

This update is not available for BlackBerry users yet.  I will wait… impatiently. In the meantime you can check out and follow my Tumblr page here.

Original post at Gadget North