BlackBerry Limited, formerly known as Research In Motion Limited (RIM), is a Canadian telecommunication and wireless equipment company best known to the general public as the developer of the BlackBerry brand of smartphones and tablets. Blackberry is also a provider of secure & high reliability software for industrial applications and Mobile Device Management (MDM). Originally a dominant company in the smartphone market, the brand’s relevance has slipped in recent years with the advent of the modern smartphone.
The next new BlackBerry phone will have a September launch party in London and the phone has already been leaked: By the CEO. John Chen shared news of the Passport, an… Read more »
When BlackBerry 10.3 software arrives this fall, it will be joined by more than 200,000 new apps. No, developers didn’t suddenly decide to write BlackBerry apps; the company has a licensing… Read more »
BlackBerry is using its secure enterprise communications network to launch a secure version of BBM, targeting it at corporate and government customer. It’s the second example in two weeks of BlackBerry… Read more »
An unreleased handset dubbed the BlackBerry Kopi appeared on eBay running BlackBerry 10.2.1. It’s already gone so you missed out on a piece of history and is a painful reminder of… Read more »
BlackBerry’s enterprise communications network has been shipping secure email for a decade. Now BlackBerry is using that infrastructure to secure NFC payment data for Canadian mobile carriers and banks. Read more »
Carrier’s SMS revenues are increasingly threatened by social messaging platforms like WhatsApp and Facebook Messenger. For the next few years, though, application-to-person (A2P) usage will provide a lifeline for the SMS… Read more »
BlackBerry is turning its attention to a cloud back end for processing data from connected devices. It hopes its experience with security and open source cloud tools can entice developers to… Read more »
Microsoft phones now account for the third most web traffic in North America, behind iOS and Android. BlackBerry’s share has fallen to the fourth spot, but Microsoft’s share really hasn’t grown… Read more »
Viber’s new look for iOS 7 isn’t just cosmetic. It’s added a handful of new features such as multi-photo messaging and block lists. It’s also finally supporting BlackBerry’s latest OS. Read more »
Italy’s VisLab has selected BlackBerry’s QNX OS to power its computer vision experiments in autonomous cars. The idea is to help the car to combine and process the information it gets… Read more »