Sydney, Australia, 15 August 2011 – Research In Motion (RIM) is excited to announce the release of an enhanced version of the Official Rugby World Cup 2011 App for BlackBerry available from the 24th of August. Rugby fans can keep up to date with Rugby World Cup 2011 action in New Zealand as it happens with information pushed to their BlackBerry smartphone and BlackBerry PlayBook in real time.

The app will feature live match text commentary and score updates, half time and full time video highlights, tournament news, statistics and much more with support for English, French and Spanish languages.

BlackBerry users will be able to access features such as native calendar and messaging integration which provides automatic match reminders and the ability to forward reminders to friends.

The app will be available on BlackBerry App World from the 24th of August at http://au.blackberry.com/services/appworld/

To download a screenshot of the app, please click here