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 »
BlackBerry hopes to claw its way back into the smartphone game with two handsets slated to launch later this year. While both are long shots to win back many users, the… 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 »
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 »
BlackBerry CEO John Chen said the company will focus on BlackBerry Messenger, the QNX platform and the enterprise market in an effort to turn things around. Those strategies seem at odds… 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 »