RIM has unveiled the next iteration of its application portal, sticking with simplicity and calling it BlackBerry App World 2.0.
The move is designed to make using App World a more seamless experience and bringing it up to speed with the likes of the iPhone App Store.
In addition to PayPal, customers will be able to purchase applications using credit cards, as well as an improved UI to make it easier to see the top lists of BlackBerry applications, from Themes to Apps, both free and paid for.
We know who you are
BB App World 2.0 also supports user IDs, which can work across any device, making it easy to see your app purchase history.
QR barcode scanning, already used on Google's Android Market, will also be supported - meaning an app vendor can advertise on the web or in a magazine and the phone's camera can decipher the code and link straight through to the app.
But the most important overhaul is for the app purchase system - now users can decide to have a dedicated credit card or PayPal account set up with RIM, and simply enter a password to download new applications, making the whole process a lot simpler.
The newest version of BlackBerry App World is available for beta preview to customers in the United Kingdom from BlackBerry Beta Zone, so if you're BlackBerry'd up then head on over and check it out.
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jennifersydney
August 22nd 2010
2. Hi, Since on the BB App World it's available a large numbers of themes, are plans to separate themes from apps? or maybe add featured themes or something like that... The Theme Builder not support OS6.0 yet, are plans to update it soon?
http://technologiez.net/2010/08/20/download-blackberry-app-world-2-0/
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philipcohen
August 21st 2010
1. Draft Media Release re PayPal
“It is with great sadness that eBay’s Chief Headless Turkey, John Donahoe (aka “Peter Principle”—among many other derogatory terms), announces the probable demise of eBay’s most ugly daughter, PayPal. PayPal is about to be stricken by particularly virulent strains of Visa+CyberSource and Mastercard Open Platform; these afflictions are aggravated by PayPal’s insurmountable lack of direct financial institutions support and a great deal of PayPal user dissatisfaction, particularly with respect to PayPal’s grossly unfair, “all responsibility avoiding” user agreement, totally primitive risk management processes, and grossly unprofessional, usually buyer-biased, fraud-facilitating (indeed, non existent) transactions mediation, to name just a few of the “inconveniences” that PayPal merchants have to endure.
“PayPal’s health may therefore be expected to deteriorate and, if ultimately not completely incapacitated, will most likely be eventually confined to its mandatory offering on what little there will, by then, be left of the Donahoe-devastated eBay marketplaces. There is no cure for this condition, and the “eBafia Don” is particularly saddened by the inevitable presumption that it is unlikely that PayPal, will be able to continue to underpin eBay’s sagging bottom line too far into the future.”
Yes, it’s a send-up but, still, it accurately describes PayPal’s “clunky” operation. The fact is, had the developers of the original “bankcard” concept ever behaved the way PayPal behaves towards its payees, in particular, credit/debit cards may never have gotten off the ground, and we would probably still be paying for all our purchases with bits of paper and little metal discs.
It appears that there is effectively no PayPal representation at all on behalf of the payee with respect to a payer making a credit card chargeback—for whatever reason. PayPal, apparently, simply accepts the chargeback and passes it back onto the payee. PayPal’s mediation process is so “clunky” that it is effectively an open invitation to unscrupulous buyers to defraud sellers, and PayPal’s system apparently offers payees absolutely no protection against this form of potential fraud.
Indeed, all those payments processors that do not have the direct underlying support of the financial institutions ultimately involved and who actually “know” the two entities involved in any transaction, as does have the likes of Visa and Mastercard, all have the same insurmountable and, ultimately, potentially fatal deficiencies that PayPal has—no effective, non-disruptive, risk management process.
In Australia, PayPal, unlike all other payments processors, has declined to sign up to the payments processors’ “Code of Conduct”, and the clear message therefrom is “user beware”!
I accept only that from a buyer’s point of view PayPal is more convenient for making a payment online than paying directly by credit card, and PayPal may still have some momentum therefrom. But, from the merchant’s point of view, for the number of material reasons referred to above, PayPal is a most unprofessional, inefficient and clunky system.
When the new banks-supported online payments interfaces offered by the likes of Visa/Mastercard are refined to the point of similar convenience, I have no doubt that PayPal’s appeal to merchants will very quickly dissipate as the obvious superiority and greater professionalism of the banks-supported online systems gather their own momentum with online merchants.
It’s only a matter of time …
Having said that, the banks risk assess their merchant clients before they hand out merchant accounts so that maybe not every small “merchant” (or payee) will be able to obtain one of the banks’ online payee accounts. So, maybe there will always be a place for the likes of PayPal—they could become the “online merchant/payee account provider of last resort”. Can you imagine what PayPal’s level of risk management and transaction mediation will be like by then?
A detailed examination of and prognosis for PayPal, (including a further link to the “PayPal Horror Tour”) at:
<url>http://forums.auctionbytes.com/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=23309</url>
Shill Bidding on eBay: Case Study #4
This latest study is a measure of eBay’s desperation to replace lost revenue and, very effectively, eBay’s effective aiding and abetting of this criminal shill bidding activity at
<url>http://forums.auctionbytes.com/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=23540</url>
And for anyone seriously interested in the utter deviousness and incompetence of eBay’s executive management generally, and in particular eBay’s demonstrable criminal facilitation of the rampant shill bidding fraud being perpetrated on unsuspecting buyers by a great many unscrupulous professional sellers on nominal-start auctions, an introduction thereto (along with some PayPal horror stories thrown in for good measure) can be found at
<url>http://forums.auctionbytes.com/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=23013</url>
eBay/PayPal/Donahoe: Dead Men Walking.
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