President Barack Obama
The troubled mobile phone maker BlackBerry still has at least one very loyal customer: U.S. President Barack Obama. At a meeting with youth on Wednesday to promote his landmark healthcare law, Obama said he is not allowed to have Apple’s smart phone, the iPhone, for “security reasons,” though he still uses Apple’s tablet computer, the Continue Reading →
BBM
BBM Channels, a new part of BlackBerry’s popular cross-platform mobile messaging app BBM, will be available on Tuesday on any handset running BlackBerry OS 5 and above. The struggling smartphone maker is calling the release an open beta – it’s not quite ready for an official release, it would seem – and will be added Continue Reading →
BlackBerry
BlackBerry’s board does not believe a break-up of the Canadian smartphone maker is currently in its best interests, even though Microsoft, Apple and Lenovo, among others, have expressed interest in acquiring parts of the company, according to people familiar with the discussions. The board rejected proposals from several technology companies for various BlackBerry assets on Continue Reading →
Google Play and BlackBerry
I think at this point we can pretty safely say that BlackBerry’s BB 10 relaunch was a bit of a disaster for the once-mighty Canadian smartphone makers. I mean, you don’t give your CEO the boot for nothing right? And it now seems the company is ready to fully capitulate to its Android rival. How? Continue Reading →
BBM
BlackBerry shocked the messaging app industry by hitting 20 million combined iPhone and Android downloads in just a week after BBM went cross-platform. Now, new Android data from Mobidia provided exclusively to BGR shows that right after its launch, BBM pulled ahead of or matched major rivals in the key metric of weekly engagement. This Continue Reading →
BBM
After rolling out BBM for Android and iOS last week, BlackBerry announced on Tuesday that more than 20 million users are actively using the app for the two mobile platforms. Furthermore, the Canadian company also revealed that BBM now has over 80 million monthly active users across BlackBerry, Android, and iOS. It’s worth noting that Continue Reading →
BBM
When it launched last week, BlackBerry’s new BBM app for Android and iOS devices was limited to users that had previously signed up for more information about it. Everyone was free to download the app, but without early access, you had to enter your e-mail address on a wait list to use it. Now, some Continue Reading →