Halal is an Arabic term used to designate objects and actions which are permissible according to Islamic law. Just as Orthodox Jews will follow kosher laws, religious Muslims have a set of practices deemed acceptable by the religion.

For many religions, there exists an ethical debate about investing in companies that engage in practices that would not be acceptable for followers of the religion to practice. As an investor, you have a responsibility to earn revenue for your clients. Although, if earning that money conflicts with your religious beliefs, you might be inclined to change your investment strategy.

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Your BlackBerry can be used in a wide variety of ways for interacting with social media and networks. One of these ways is via email. There are several sites out there that allow you to send media to them via email, and have that media pushed to your facebook and social networks. I’ve taken the time to roundup 5 of these sites; my favorite being Posterous.

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Origin8 have released a fun little application for BlackBerry called Fake My Call that does exactly what you think it does. Fake My Call lets you get fake incoming calls to your BlackBerry to help you get out of any awkward social moments.

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Friendplay.com has launched a free instant messaging application for BlackBerry and Java enabled phones with Yahoo, MSN, Gtalk and AIM messaging connectivity.

Download your free copy by going to im.friendplay.com on your BlackBerry browser.

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Since its debut here on the CrackBerry blogs, QuickLaunch has become one of the must-have applications for many BlackBerry users, especially Storm owners. Originally launching for the Storm and now available for other BlackBerry device models, QuickLaunch has been a staple on the CrackBerry App Store’s Best Sellers list (check out our CrackBerry Review here) thanks to its ease of use and ability to speed up the BlackBerry experience.

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A report recently published by Maribel Lopez , formerly of Forrester Research that looks at mobile security options available in the mobile sector and which ones will provide you with the most security from unauthorized access has placed RIM BlackBerry devices at the top when compared to the offerings of other device manufacturers.

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The second annual BlackBerry Developer Conference is set to be held on November 9-11th in San Francisco, CA. The time has come for RIM to put out their call for papers seeking out those who are interested in being speakers at the event and offering your insight as a mobile application developer. RIM has placed alot of focus lately on the developer aspect of their services so this will be the developers’ chance to shine.

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And no, I’m not talking about the candy bar. Paris Hilton was frantically searching for her BlackBerry Thursday night at this week’s Festival de Cannes film convention hosted in south France.

“It’s the worst thing that could have happened. It has all my contacts in it and the last thing I want is for it to fall into the wrong hands”, she told the Daily Mail.

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Back at WES 2009 at the beginning of this month, one of the solutions to get a lot of attention was Gwabbit for BlackBerry. Whether you like the name or not, Gwabbit is a pretty handy tool for those in business who get a ton of emails on a regular basis and are lazy when it comes to converting those contacts to address book entries. Gwabbit scans your emails for signatures and contact info and automatically does the job for you! It’s now officially available, so you can read on for all the press release details below.

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Timr is a time tracking and drive log solution for BlackBerry. Currently, the app is in an Open Beta and you can try it out for yourself for free.

With timr, you can track time and bill clients instantaneously. Time tracking is usually done after the job, and because there is always so much work, time tracking is usually left to the end of the day, or sometimes later. Timr provides instantaneous time tracking which means that you know the exact project costs minute-by-minute.

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