Polar Mobile & The Hockey News Creating Apps for Every NHL Team

We knew that Polar Mobile and The Hockey News have a great partnership going since 2008 but its about to get better. Together they are working on launching mobile apps for every NHL team cross platform including BlackBerry and hopefully soon the PlayBook. They let us know that their mobile apps have served 160,000,000 page views to over 1,000,000 people in 65 countries.

The new team specific apps are going to go live next month at the start of the 2011-2012 NHL season. It will give you tailored news to your team. No word on if the new apps will be free but I am guessing so since the overarching The Hockey News app is free in App World.

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Devs: Polar Mobile Open Sources PlayBook WebWorks ChildBrowser Extension

I love seeing BlackBerry developers giving back to the developer community. I think this is all part of RIM’s new move towards opensource especially with WebWorks and it seems like the trend is catching on. Polar Mobile’s Michael Russo has released a BlackBerry PlayBook WebWorks extension for ChildBrowser windows. This lets developers embed external web pages within a WebWorks app. For some reason RIM does not provide this functionality natively and alternatives like iFrames run into issues.

Check out the details in Michael Russo’s post about the ChildBrowser extension or find the extension on GitHub. Kudos to Polar Mobile for sharing!

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