Mobile Phone : New BlackBerry Developer Tools Will Benefit Users

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At Research in Motion’s BlackBerry Developer Conference Monday, the company made a slew of announcements that aim to boost the platform’s appeal to developers. But more APIs, a better advertisement service and new Adobe and Eclipse toolsets don’t seem too exciting to the average consumer. Fear not, faithful BlackBerry user–there are some enhancements that will directly benefit you. Read on:

New APIs

RIM launched a few new APIs to third-party developers including the ability to build push notifications into apps, an enhanced advertising and payment service and three location-based services. Most of these new APIs will be available to developers in the first half of 2010.

BlackBerry’s Push Service API isn’t new, but it was previously available only on core apps. Now that it is open to all third-party developers (and free), more applications can take advantage of its services. Developers can choose to have these notifications appear as alerts at the top of the BlackBerry home screen, as a badge on the actual app itself, or sent directly to the users’ inbox.

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