BlackBerry adds interactive component to messaging service

WATERLOO, ON – RIM’s popular BlackBerry Messenger, one of the largest mobile social networks in the world, has added a new feature allowing users to easily interact with each other from within a BBM connected app. BBM version 6, which launched Thursday, lets BBM connected apps integrate the functionality of the BBM service so that users may interact with their friends from within the app itself. For example, with a BBM connected game app, users can invite their BBM friends to join them in a game and then chat with one another in real time while the game is being played...