John Chen, the CEO of Blackberry, has made dramatic moves in turning around the company, firing various executives and hiring others (seeBlackberry’s Chen is pushing hard to turn the company around, BlackBerry… Read more »
Looks like John Chen’s gamble on the square Passport smartphone is paying off. He says that the company sold out on the Blackberry store and in 10 hours on Amazon. This… Read more »
This was a week where so many things broke that I am having trouble keeping track. Amazon Fire Amazon announced the much anticipated Amazon phone, called Amazon Fire. I had made… Read more »
Windows is dropping the price of Windows 8.1 by 70% for tablet and PC makers, under renewed pressure from Google’s Chromebooks, Bloomberg reports. I wrote about Google’s new deal with VMware to… Read more »
Azendoo, the cooperative work management tool (see Azendoo is one of the first cooperative work tools), has announced that it has rethought the way that permissions default. Instead of defaulting to private… Read more »
Yesterday, BlackBerry announced that Andrew Bocking, executive vice president and head of the messenger service, has left the company. This was first reported by Boy Genius Report. This is just the newest… Read more »
Microsoft continues its push to goose adoption of Office 365, and slow the inroads that Google continues to make in the SMB business with Google Apps for Business. Microsoft and GoDaddy announce… Read more »
The news from BlackBerry is coming so fast and furious it’s hard to keep abreast of it. It’s mostly looking like freefall. In advance of the 3rd quarter results — and… Read more »
Looking back on what was a relatively quiet week, there no doubt that the actions at BlackBerry stood out. First off, as I wrote about in Blackberry’s Chen is pushing hard… Read more »
In a week of other announcements (see Blackberry’s Chen is pushing hard to turn the company around), BlackBerry has released the first go at its own social network, implemented within BBM, called BBM… Read more »