{"id":9539,"date":"2012-04-11T15:46:30","date_gmt":"2012-04-11T13:46:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=9539"},"modified":"2012-04-11T15:51:42","modified_gmt":"2012-04-11T13:51:42","slug":"rim-to-increase-blackberry-messenger-connectivity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/mobile\/9539\/rim-to-increase-blackberry-messenger-connectivity\/","title":{"rendered":"RIM to increase BlackBerry Messenger connectivity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Research In Motion said it will shortly release a slew of updates for its BlackBerry apps, making it easier for users to stay connected with their messenger community.<\/p>\n<p>Apps such as Facebook, Twitter, BBM Music and BlackBerry App World will now include BlackBerry Messenger (BBM) connectivity, the Canadian company said in a statement on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Users will now be able to automatically share their Facebook status or Twitter update with their BBM friends from the apps, it added.<\/p>\n<p>Alec Saunders, vice president of developer relations at RIM, said about one in every five apps being downloaded on BlackBerry App World is BBM-connected.<\/p>\n<p>Waterloo, Ontario-based RIM has more than 70,000 apps in its App World store for either BlackBerry phones or the PlayBook tablet, compared with 200,000 iPad apps, and half a million for the iPhone.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Research In Motion said it will shortly release a slew of updates for its BlackBerry apps, making it easier for users to stay connected with their messenger community.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":793,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[25,161,2117,45,157,93],"class_list":["post-9539","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mobile","tag-active","tag-blackberry","tag-blackberry-messenger","tag-facebook","tag-rim","tag-twitter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9539","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9539"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9539\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9546,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9539\/revisions\/9546"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/793"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}