BlackBerry Goes Web 2.0 with Facebook App

Published: October 26, 2007, 9:29 am

FaceBerry or BlackBook. Whatever combo-name is used, Research In Motion's new application for Facebook on the BlackBerry moves the company's popular mobile device further into the Web 2.0 world. The free, downloadable application from RIM allows streamlined, mobile access to Facebook, which has been recreating itself in recent months as a platform for social-networking applications. Demonstrated by RIM founder Mike Lazaridis and Facebook cofounder Dustin Moskovitz at the CTIA Wireless show in San Francisco earlier this week, the Facebook app will first appear as a native addition to BlackBerry handsets offered through T-Mobile. Sharing a Vision Both Facebook and RIM share a vision of mobile communications and social networking, Lazaridis said in a statement, based on standards-based platforms that leverage "the push-based architecture, multimedia features, and industry-leading usability of the BlackBerry solution." Rather than having to rely on browser-based

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