BlackBerry

BLACKBERRY

Feb 15, 2017

BlackBerry has Finally Reached 0% Market Share

Evan Selleck

For many people, the BlackBerry bran is synonymous with smartphones -- even as the company has scraped and clawed its way into staying relevant. The Canadian-based company has been around for many, many years, and

BLACKBERRY

Sep 28, 2016

BlackBerry to Stop Building Its Own Smartphones

Rajesh Pandey

BlackBerry, the company that was known for its enterprise-oriented smartphones before the iPhone launched in 2007, today announced that it would stop building its own smartphones. The company will stop research, development, and manufacturing

BLACKBERRY

Apr 15, 2016

Canadian Police Have Had BlackBerry’s Global Decryption Key Since 2010

Killian Bell

While Apple fights to prevent law enforcement agencies from breaking the encryption features on iPhone and other iOS devices, BlackBerry seems happy for them to gain entry. New court documents show Canadian police have had

BLACKBERRY

Dec 17, 2015

BlackBerry CEO hits out at Apple for its stance on privacy against criminals

Rajesh Pandey

In a blog post, BlackBerry's CEO John Chen has blasted Apple over its stance on privacy, encryption and refusal to help government authorities. Chen highlights the incident where Apple refused to give access to

BLACKBERRY

Jun 1, 2015

Typo to kill its iPhone keyboard for BlackBerry settlement

Killian Bell

BlackBerry has today confirmed that it has agreed to a settlement with Typo, the creator of the BlackBerry-style keyboard case for iPhone. As part of the deal, Typo has agreed to stop selling its

BLACKBERRY

May 22, 2015

New book ‘Losing the Signal’ highlights how the iPhone permanently affected BlackBerry’s future

Evan Selleck

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BBM

Jan 22, 2015

BlackBerry CEO calls for net neutrality, wants Apple to be forced to bring iMessage to BlackBerry

Rajesh Pandey

BLACKBERRY

Jan 14, 2015

Samsung eyes BlackBerry’s patent portfolio with $7.5 billion acquisition offer

Evan Selleck

BLACKBERRY

Sep 26, 2014

BlackBerry Passport receives 200,000 orders following launch

Joe Rossignol

BLACKBERRY

Sep 24, 2014

BlackBerry challenges people to bend the Passport as it calls out the iPhone 6

Evan Selleck

BLACKBERRY

Aug 22, 2014

BlackBerry praises BBM as it bashes Apple’s iMessage spam ‘issue’

Evan Selleck

BLACKBERRY

Jul 16, 2014

BlackBerry Assistant is a Siri-like knockoff that is way too late

Joe Rossignol

APPLE NEWS

Mar 4, 2014

Apple’s CarPlay systems powered by BlackBerry’s QNX software

Jason

BLACKBERRY

Feb 19, 2014

BlackBerry CEO responds harshly to T-Mobile iPhone promotion

Kelly Hodgkins

BBM

Feb 14, 2014

BBM 2.0 for iOS brings BBM Voice, Channels, Dropbox support, Location Sharing and 100 new emoticons

Gautam Prabhu

BlackBerry has just released a major update for BlackBerry Messenger. BBM 2.0 brings new features such as direct voice calling, BBM Channels, Dropbox support and additional emoticons. BBM Voice: It allows users to make

APPLE NEWS

Dec 24, 2013

Apple-backed Rockstar consortium may sell off some of its patent portfolio

Kelly Hodgkins

People familiar with the matter claim that members of the Rockstar Consortium are looking to sell some of the patents it acquired from bankrupt communications company Nortel. The group paid $4.5 billion in 2011

BBM

Dec 19, 2013

BBM Voice, BBM Channels and more coming to BBM for iPhone in 2014

Jason

BlackBerry has detailed its 2014 roadmap for BBM for iPhone on its blog. Here are the new features that will be added to BBM over the next year, some of which are already present in

BLACKBERRY

Dec 5, 2013

Obama not allowed to use an iPhone for security reasons

Kelly Hodgkins

US President Barack Obama confirmed on Wednesday that he is not allowed to use an iPhone because of security concerns. Instead the president must use an aging, but secure BlackBerry handset, says a report in

BLACKBERRY

Nov 8, 2013

BlackBerry refused to break up company despite interest from Apple, Microsoft and others

Kelly Hodgkins

BlackBerry's board of directors recently decided not to sell the company, despite interest from investor groups and other technology companies, including Apple. According to Reuters, Apple and Microsoft both expressed interest in BlackBerry's

APPLE NEWS

Nov 7, 2013

How a former Apple executive almost bought BlackBerry

Kelly Hodgkins

John Sculley spent just about a decade at Apple, serving as the company's CEO between 1983 and 1993. He is best known as the man who fired Apple founder Steve Jobs before Jobs could

BBM

Nov 3, 2013

Top 5 tips to make the most out of BBM for iPhone

Jason

Although BlackBerry made a very late entry in the cross-platform messaging apps race, a lot of iPhone and Android users (over 20 million) seem to be using BBM to communicate. Here are a few

BBM

Oct 29, 2013

BBM adds 20 million iPhone and Android users in the first week, waitlist removed

Gautam Prabhu

BlackBerry has announced that it has added 20 million users since the launch of BBM for iPhone and Android last week. After the initial hiccup in September, BlackBerry finally released its BBM app for iPhone

BBM

Oct 26, 2013

BBM for iPhone update released to fix issues with Contacts tab and Photo Sharing [Updated]

Gautam Prabhu

BlackBerry has released an update for BBM for iPhone to fix bugs. It is not clear if it fixes the crashing issue, which some users are reporting when they try to access Contacts list after