I have a confession.  Until recently I was living in the 20^th century.  I was still on a dial up connection for the internet.  This wasn’t by choice; I was being held hostage by internet providers.  I live in a rural area, but only 5 miles from civilization.  You can imagine my frustration when I was told that my neighborhood was not scheduled to receive broadband in the near future—meaning within a year.  The frustration stemmed from the fact that people living a quarter of a mile from me were able to get it.

I've had a few days to run the leaked beta OS 5.0.0.190 on my Curve 8900 and I must say, this OS is promising!  Yes, there are always caviats when installing code that isn't quite ready for prime time, but you can get a feel for what programmers are shooting for and you can usually get a feel for whether they heard your cries of pain after the previously leaked 5.0.0.90 version.  And, in fact, at this writing, another OS version 5.0.0.204 is already out in the wild and being scrutinized.  Yes, RIM has many beta OS versions and many beta testers, but, here are my two cents about what I think is giant leap in the right direction.

Electric Pocket's official announcement of Twitterlerts is tomorrow morning! I thought I'd go ahead and get you the pr.
Kevin

Twitterlerts Lets BlackBerry Users Tweet, Search and Get Alerts

Wye Valley UK-- Every minute of every day, Twitter users are "tweeting" about businesses, products, celebrities and current affairs. Electric Pocket's new Twitterlerts helps BlackBerry users monitor the global dialogue by automatically scanning Twitter for the user's chosen topics, alerting the user to important changes, and letting them easily tweet or share tweets directly from their mobile device.