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As part of the strategy to make its devices more secure than those made by competing handset makers, BlackBerry plans to establish the “Security Innovation Center” in Washington, D.C. The idea is not new and has been initially unveiled by CEO John Chen during the company’s recent quarterly results. At that time, Chen said that…
BlackBerry is gearing towards big strategy shift as it wants to focus on its key customers – corporations and government entities. As part of that plan, the new CEO John Chen says the company’s upcoming phones will “predominantly” have physical keyboards, Bloomberg is reporting. The Z10 and Z30 obviously failed to impress the general public,…
As part of its turnaround strategy, BlackBerry has hired Ron Lokus as its new president of devices and emerging solutions, Reuters is reporting (and brought to our attention by PhoneArena). Lokus was previously head of strategy at HTC’s America, as well as head of technology at Sony Ericsson. Most recently, he held the top job…
Remember the Typo Keyboard Cover for iPhone? BlackBerry doesn’t like the fact that these guys didn’t pay a dime to use such keyboard design, which is apparently an intellectual property of the Canadian company. So they’re suing them, claiming that Typo Products is infringing on their patents covering keyboards. “This is a blatant infringement against…
BlackBerry Messenger has proven to be very popular on non-BlackBerry hardware, with Android and iOS users downloading it in droves. Now it looks like the company has made some of the latest and greatest features of the service available in the Android version of the messaging app. The latest BlackBerry Messenger Beta for Android features…
Mike Lazaridis won’t be the one taking BlackBerry private, having reduced its stake in the company to roughly 4.99%. The information comes from the Wall Street Journal which got it from a regulatory filing made public on Tuesday. The news will quiet earlier rumors that suggested Lazaridis may team-up with Qualcomm and Cerberus Capital Management…
BlackBerry’s original idea was to launch no less than 6 devices, after the Z10 and Q10. That plan was revised to 4 devices — two entry-level and two high-end — and now we have another revision. The new CEO decided that it won’t be chasing folks looking for cheap BlackBerrys and will rather focus all…
BlackBerry has spilled the beans on what we can expect from their IM client next year. And there’s a lot coming, most notably the addition of BBM Voice and BBM Channels for its iOS and Android apps. Yup, this will allow BBM users across platforms to talk for free, while also enabling them to join…
After reporting a miserable third quarter showing losses of $4.4 billion and 56 percent in revenue decline, BlackBerry managed to give the latest news on BBM traction. BlackBerry announced that its messenger app has gotten over 40 million “newly registered iOS/Android users in the last 60 days.” The company failed to decipher what the total…
We’re seriously running out of taglines to describe the horror show that continues to play out in Waterloo, with BlackBerry unable to stop itself from hemorrhaging money. A couple of days ago we had a small glimpse into the doomsday numbers we were expecting today, as news spread that the company was letting go two…