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It’s a very sad day for the BlackBerry community. Russell Shaw, author of the superb BlackBerry Beat blog at ZDNet, among many other publications, passed away on Friday. He was 60. Beyond ZDNet, he wrote plenty for The Huffington Post, and actually ran a second blog for ZDNet, IP Telephony, which focused on VoIP services. And, as if he couldn’t be any more into the BlackBerry, he also wrote for BBHub. So we’ve lost a great contributor, but beyond that, a great man — I didn’t know him personally, but I haven’t read an ill word about him, before or after his death.
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Just a reminder that the software sale at the BBGeeks store ends this Saturday, March 15. So if you want to take advantage of 20 percent off BlackBerry software, just head over to the store, and enter the code BBGOPEN to receive the discount.

Well, we’re now in business. BBGeeks.com has opened the BBGeeks Store, a one-stop shop for BlackBerry software and accessories. So stop on by and check out the selection.

Now, what kind of grand opening would it be if we didn’t offer a discount? From now until March 15th, you can get a 20 percent discount on all software. Just enter code BBGOPEN, and you can knock a bit off the price of business, productivity, and travel applications, plus games.
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I know I promised I would notify the winners of the BBGeeks FREE BlackBerry Giveaway yesterday, but as luck may have it, the powers that be where I live have decided that February 18th is a new holiday. I therefore took the day to enjoy some much needed family time.

I would like to thank those of you who entered the contest for your patience. I now present the winners of our contest, who submitted written entries telling us why they are the “Worlds Biggest BlackBerry Geek”.
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Just a quick plug: I appeared on the BlackBerry Cool Podcast last Friday, which you can listen to here. Host Simon Sage and I discussed social networking, a remote stereo system, a number of BlackBerry Pearl launches, and of course the CDMA Curve. Give it a listen.

Well, the BBGeeks FREE BlackBerry contest has run it’s course and I am pleased to present our two finalists for the written entries.

Unfortunately, we did not get the participation we had hoped for in the video portion of this contest, and therefore have no one to give away a free BlackBerry to. We will be running various contest in the future so we will hold onto the 1 year of hosting courtesy of ExchangeMyMail.com and offer it again as a prize at a later date.
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A special hello to all the BBGeeks out there on this the Wednesday before Valentines Day. As you all know we have been running a contest for the past couple of weeks where we asked the question “What Makes You the Biggest BlackBerry Geek?“.

Well tomorrow is the big day! We will be deciding on the winner of the written portion of the contest and posting the results in the blog. Why only the written submissions you ask?

Because NONE of you submitted video!

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With Valentine’s day coming up, we figured what better time to run a contest looking for the biggest BlackBerry Geek who would love a brand new BlackBerry (and we totally had this planned before RIM launched their campaign to ask BB users why they love their BlackBerry - but hey, great tie in)!

Tell us why you’re the biggest BlackBerry geek either via video or written word and you’ll have a chance to win some fantastic prizes! Sound good? Then let’s get to the details.
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For those of you who are active members on Facebook or who have the Facebook BlackBerry application installed, you might be interested to know that BB Geeks now has its very own fan page on Facebook. So check it out and become a fan!

We’ve switched the BBGeeks feed address to a new URL today: http://feeds.bbgeeks.com/bbgeeks. Please update your feed subscription address accordingly as we can’t promise the old feed address will continue to work properly. Thanks!