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**r0v3rT3N** · 04-30-2012, 08:21 PM

One of RIM’s acquisitions that I cannot wait to hear more about is NewBay. They are a huge white label brand for cloud services that tons of carriers including AT&T and Verizon use. Until now they have not had much traction on BlackBerry but it looks like that will change soon. While wandering around the BlackBerry solutions showcase tonight I spotted this interesting slideshow about NewBay. It did not show much that I did not know before except for one slide at the end that showed a basic UI for NewBay’s SyncDrive service on the PlayBook and a BlackBerry smartphone.

In case you don’t know what SyncDrive is, it simply allows you to sync your media and other files across devices and even access it from their web console. It also allows you to automatically backup these files from your devices into the cloud. This is just one of NewBays services and I am hoping many more will be coming. I wonder if RIM will be announcing something around this at BlackBerry World tomorrow… For all I know these are just mockups so take this with a grain of salt.

Check out the full slideshow below:

Source: Berry Review

**Thunderbuck** · 04-30-2012, 08:23 PM

That's good, for sure. It at least keeps Blackberry on a par with iCloud and SkyDrive. Would be great if there are any specific advantages for NewBay's technology...

**Draconianfire83** · 04-30-2012, 08:34 PM

If ya can't beat'em, Join'em! I think I'm ready to adopt a "native" cloud service for BlackBerry...

**Italianemperor** · 04-30-2012, 08:35 PM

If you can give me a 1st party cloud based backup for everything on my device and tablet with RIM security I will be a very happy man.

**TGoblin** · 04-30-2012, 09:34 PM

Originally Posted by italianemperor

If you can give me a 1st party cloud based backup for everything on my device and tablet with RIM security I will be a very happy man.

I absolutely concur with this. I would be very happy if this was the case

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**Chrisy** · 04-30-2012, 09:40 PM

Thanks for posting! This is good!

**Blkacesvf41** · 04-30-2012, 09:45 PM

Interesting, it does look like a step in the right direction.

**anthogag** · 04-30-2012, 10:23 PM

It's official, BBW is a success...this is what I want

**s7ark** · 04-30-2012, 10:44 PM

Originally Posted by anthogag

It's official, BBW is a success...this is what I want

This is a nice start. I can see this being a very promising service if RIM's famous security is involved.

I am still hoping for a "knock our socks off" BB10 demo tomorrow. Then on Wednesday I am hoping for a Playbook OS update(cascades native apps, maybe BBM?) and a Playbook 4G 7" and 10" announcement with a quick release. And if RIM can somehow add some major apps like Netflix and Skype at some point too, they might even manage to get some good press out of BBW this year.

Then I'd call it a success.

**jafobabe** · 04-30-2012, 10:59 PM

This sounds very interesting... tho I hate clouds, I might just have to change my mind!

**mithrazor** · 04-30-2012, 11:55 PM

Originally Posted by jafobabe

This sounds very interesting... tho I hate clouds, I might just have to change my mind!

But if it wasn't for clouds how would we get rain???

**ithinkin10** · 05-01-2012, 02:56 AM

Well this can change my mind on cloud services. I despise services like DropBox and Box.net. I started using SugarSync recently because I could access from my PlayBook and BlackBerry easily. However, I'm not heavy into the cloud and have been trying to find a "private" cloud that would work with my BlackBerry, PlayBook, and PC. Tonido seems like it could have some good features but if RIM pulls this off I'm more than happy to use their services!

**sam_b77** · 05-01-2012, 05:33 AM

This is very interesting. I normally am very wary of cloud services. I don't trust Google at all and wouldn't want to use icloud either. But RIM I trust. Their cloud services would inspire trust and i would definitely pay to use that.

**r0v3rT3N** · 05-01-2012, 06:56 AM

Originally Posted by italianemperor

If you can give me a 1st party cloud based backup for everything on my device and tablet with RIM security I will be a very happy man.

Well, technically you could call it 1st party as RIM owns them!

I'm expecting to hear NewBay and JayCut news here as well!
This is going to be a good week for BB users/lovers!

**Italianemperor** · 05-01-2012, 07:08 AM

Originally Posted by r0v3rT3N

Well, technically you could call it 1st party as RIM owns them!

I'm expecting to hear NewBay and JayCut news here as well!
This is going to be a good week for BB users/lovers!

I think you are correct, this should be a great week for the BB10 faithful on the software and services side. They just need to execute and get the hardware to market in a timely fashion.