How-To Video: Install and Use Six Free Killer BlackBerry Apps

Get more from your Research In Motion (RIM) BlackBerry smartphone by quickly learning to install and use a half-dozen free downloads. This video shows you how.

By Diann Daniel , Al Sacco
Fri, March 21, 2008

CIO — Sometimes the best things in life are free. Like the following six BlackBerry smartphone applications: the Viigo mobile RSS reader, Beyond411 local search, the smartphone-based travel companion WorldMate Live, a mobile version of Google Maps and two social networking apps: Facebook for BlackBerry and TwitterBerry.

In this how-to video, CIO's Al Sacco and Diann Daniel walk you through the installation process to get you up and running.

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