BlackBerry’s cloud-based enterprise mobility management (EMM) solution, BES12 Cloud, has been certified through the HP Helion Ready Program.
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BlackBerry has officially started the rollout of OS 10.3.2 to users in the U.S., beginning with BlackBerry Classic users on Verizon and T-Mobile networks today.
BlackBerry will be reporting results for the first quarter of fiscal 2016 on Tuesday, June 23rd, 2015. Just after it, the company will hold its Annual and Special Meeting of Shareholders at 10am ET in Waterloo, Ontario.
At the beginning of the month, BlackBerry released a beta of BBM for Android which introduced private chats and then followed it up with a Beta update for BBM for for iOS.
At the beginning of the month, BlackBerry released a beta of BBM for Android which introduced private chats. Today, BlackBerry have released a new Beta update for BBM for for iOS which also implements private chats.
According to a report from Reuters, BlackBerry is considering equipping an upcoming smartphone with Google's Android software for the first time, according to four sources familiar with the matter.
Another high level executive has left BlackBerry for pastures new as BlackBerry India Managing Director Sunil Lalvan has quit the company.
BlackBerry  today announced the availability of BlackBerry Leap in Italy. Beginning today, companies looking for enterprise fleet renewals can now purchase the modern and powerful BlackBerry Leap through selected carriers and partners at the suggested retail price of €299 VAT included.
BlackBerry  today announced the availability of BlackBerry Leap in South Africa. Beginning today, companies looking for enterprise fleet renewals can now purchase the modern and powerful BlackBerry Leap.
The German Federal Office for Information Security (BSI) has granted approval to SecuVOICE for BlackBerry 10 for security classifications up to the level of NATO Restricted.
BlackBerry today announced the availability of BlackBerry Leap in Nigeria. Beginning today, companies looking for enterprise fleet renewals can now purchase the modern and powerful BlackBerry Leap.
Former BlackBerry co-CeO Jim Balsillie said Tuesday that Apple's introduction of the iPhone and BlackBerry's rushed attempt to match it was devastating for the company.
BlackBerry will be reporting results for the first quarter of fiscal 2016 on June 23rd, 2015. A conference call and live webcast will be held beginning at 8 am ET
BlackBerry are having another on of their clearance sales and have dropped the prices for all three colour variations of the BlackBerry Passport.
BlackBerry have released Beta 3 of BlackBerry Blend v1.2, which is now available in the BlackBerry Beta Zone for eligible beta testers.
BlackBerry shares recovered from a sudden drop in value on this morning’s pre-market. An unexplained move in extended trading before the market opened in New York saw shares lose more than 15% lower than they closed on Monday afternoon.
After attempting to add another account to the BlackBerry 10 smartphone, the following message is displayed:
Maximum account limit has been reached
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BlackBerry has announced the availability of BlackBerry Classic in Colombia and is available at Mercadolibre.com, the leader in online sales and unique visitors per month in Colombia.
BlackBerry has announced the availability of BlackBerry Leap in white and shadow grey in Saudi Arabia. It is available through leading telecom retailers at a suggested retail price of SAR 1,099.
Intel announced today that it is collaborating with QNX to advance in-vehicle technologies that deliver new driving experiences.
QNX and Certicom, both subsidiaries of BlackBerry, are working jointly to bring strong cryptography and entity authentication to the automotive industry.
QNX today demonstrated how QNX OS technology provides a flexible and highly reliable platform for powering next-generation digital instrument clusters. According to a report from IHS Automotive, Automotive User Interfaces 2014.
Today, at TU-Automotive Detroit 2015, BlackBerry is demonstrating its next-generation over-the-air (OTA) update solution, which will help automakers cut maintenance costs, reduce expensive recalls, improve customer satisfaction.
Ford has announced its all-new SYNC 3 technology debuts this summer in North America on the 2016 Ford Escape and Fiesta.
The App Developers has announced it has made it to the semi-final shortlist of the Virgin Media Business Pitch to Rich competition and with voting opening this week
BlackBerry’s sponsorship contract with Formula One’s Mercedes AMG Petronas team runs out at the end of this year.
BlackBerry have released an update to the BBM for Android Beta which brings Private Chats and Material Design.
Today at the eHealth Conference, BlackBerry announced that Grand River Hospital has chosen BBM Protected and BES12 to enable secure communications for their clinicians and staff.
BlackBerry announced today that BlackBerry and Typo Products LLC, Typo Innovations LLC, Show Media LLC, Hallier Investments LLC, and Laurence Hallier have settled their outstanding legal disputes
BlackBerry announced today that the BlackBerry Leap in White is now available across all ShopBlackBerry.com markets. Companies looking for enterprise fleet renewals can now purchase the BlackBerry Leap in an alternative color to fit in their working environment.
To help take advantage of the Android M Developer Preview features, Google are releasing a new version of Android Studio.
While announcing the availability of the BlackBerry Leap in the Philippines, BlackBerry also announced an exclusive prepaid mobile internet promotion with Globe Telecom, available to customers who purchase a BlackBerry 10 smartphone from a MemoXpress store.
BlackBerry have announced the availability of BlackBerry Leap in the Philippines. From May 30, 2015,  companies looking for enterprise fleet renewals can purchase BlackBerry Leap at MemoXpress stores for a cash price of PHP 13,490.
Did you know that 61% of organizations continue to miscalculate or underestimate mobility risks? Yet with the mobility landscape constantly changing, there is so much to keep on top of and so much to lose for organizations that make a security misstep.
In the UAE, VOIP services as well as VoIP-based offers from global providers like BBM, WhatsApp, Skype, Viber, etc. remained restricted as the country’s Telecommunications Regulatory Authority (TRA) has granted that prerogative solely to only providers.
The Greater KW Chamber of Commerce hosted BlackBerry CEO John Chen for a special luncheon on May 5th with nearly 400 community builders and supporters in attendance. It was an outstanding and candid discussion between John and Chamber CEO Ian McLean.
The engineers at BlackBerry Encrypted Phones have found that BlackBerry PGP email encryption devices offer the highest level of security for wireless communications.
Developing apps for enterprise can be a challenge as enterprise-grade applications are more than just app code.
Telcel and BlackBerry have launched the BlackBerry Classic, a device built for the QWERTY keyboard loyalists and those eager to rediscover the speed and accuracy of a physical BlackBerry keyboard. BlackBerry Classic is available now from Telcel stores and online.
BlackBerry today announced that its Board of Directors has authorized a share repurchase program to purchase for cancellation up to 12 million BlackBerry common shares, or approximately 2.6% of the outstanding public float.
BlackBerry today announced the availability of BlackBerry Leap in Singapore. From May 23, companies looking for enterprise fleet renewals will be able to purchase BlackBerry Leap through select carriers and partners.
BlackBerry have released a new Beta update for BBM for for iOS. The latest beta brings bug fixes and some improvements to the timed message and message retraction features.
Securities firm RBC Capital Markets has cut in half its estimate of the number of BlackBerry Passport and BlackBerry Classic handsets which the company had managed to sell in the previous quarter.
In an interview with Business Insider, BlackBerry CEO John Chen says he'll make BlackBerry's smartphone business profitable again.
Last month, BlackBerry acquired WatchDox, a startup that developed cross-platform technology for digital rights management and for enterprises to share files securely. BlackBerry are to integrate WatchDox’s technology as a value-added service with BlackBerry’s Enterprise Mobility Management (EMM) portfolio.
BlackBerry today announced that Enterprise Instant Messenger (EIM) and its support for Microsoft Lync and IBM Sametime has returned in the latest update to BES12.
Since BlackBerry CEO John took the helm, things have changed for the company, with the major goal being to bring the company back to profitability. Chen has sought much cost-cutting, which has resulted in a leaner company garnering the last two quarters in the black.
BlackBerry today announced the availability of BlackBerry Leap in Hong Kong. BlackBerry Leap features the latest BlackBerry 10.3.1 operating system, a brilliant edge-to-edge five-inch HD display and more than a full day's battery power.
Today, BlackBerry launched new Value Bundles on ShopBlackBerry. When you purchase an unlocked BlackBerry Leap, BlackBerry Classic or BlackBerry Passport you can take advantage of additional savings by selecting a Value Bundle.
On Saturday, we reported how Canadian Liberal MPP for Etibicoke-North, Shafiq Qaadri has asked legislature to allow members of parliament and staff to use a variety of smartphones instead of remaining trapped in its “BlackBerry-only policy and called the assembly’s current policy “handicapping, retarding and penalizing MPPsâ€Â
BlackBerry today announced that a white color version of the BlackBerry Classic smartphone is now available in Saudi Arabia. The white colored BlackBerry Classic is available today at leading telecom retail stores.
Certicom, a subsidiary of BlackBerry, has launched a new managed public key infrastructure certificate service for connected devices, unleashing the performance of its renowned security technology for a broad range of Internet of Things (IoT) applications.
In Canada, home of BlackBerry, Liberal MPP for Etibicoke-North, Shafiq Qaadri has asked legislature to allow members of parliament and staff to use a variety of smartphones instead of remaining trapped in its "BlackBerry-only policy."
For most personal or home networks, a firewall that is restricting network traffic will not be an issue and Video Chat, BBM Voice, and BBM Video will function as expected.
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BlackBerry today announced that it has completed its acquisition of WatchDox, a data security company offering the most secure enterprise file-sync-and-share (EFSS) solutions on any device(1). Terms of the transaction were not disclosed.
Last month, BlackBerry brought BBM Channels to the BBM for Windows Beta. Testing apparently went well and BBM Channelis now officially available to Windows Phone users.
BlackBerry and T-Mobile U.S. have reconciled as today they showed they're two companies in the business of listening to their customers by announcing a new partnership to bring the BlackBerry Classic to the Un-carrier's Data Strong network and its approximately 57 million individual and business customers.
BlackBerry will launch its slider smartphone in India, announced during MWC 2015, towards the end of the ongoing financial year targeting the mid to high handset market, according to Sunil Lalvani, managing director at BlackBerry India.
BlackBerry today announced the availability of the new BlackBerry Leap smartphone in Vietnam. The BlackBerry Leap is an affordable all-touch smartphone in a modern and powerful design that is built for career builders and companies who value security and privacy when pushing their productivity to the next level.
The BlackBerry Leap is now available in Canada. The new BlackBerry Leap will be available from Bell Mobility, Rogers Wireless, Sasktel, TELUS, WIND Mobile, ShopBlackBerry, and select Tbooth wireless and WIRELESSWAVE locations starting on May 7th, 2015, for as low as $0.00 on contract or $349 CAD unlocked.
BlackBerry today announced that a white color version of the BlackBerry Classic smartphone is now available in the UAE.
BlackBerry have released an update to the BBM Channels web portal which brings the ability for channel managers to target specific audiences.
BlackBerry today announced the availability of the all new BlackBerry Leap smartphone in Malaysia. The BlackBerry Leap includes a five-inch HD display, BlackBerry's latest operating system - BlackBerry 10.3.1 OS.
Microsoft on Wednesday unveiled a set of software development kits (SDKs) to help developers bring their code for the Web, .NET, Win32, Android and iOS to Windows 10.
Visa Europe has announced the launch of Visa Europe Collab, its new international innovation hub. Working with a network of partners from across the digital and fintech ecosystem.
NIBC Bank, a merchant bank in the Netherlands, wanted to migrate away from BlackBerry to iOS devices. To do this, the bank deployed an enterprise mobility management (EMM) solution from MobileIron to meet strict compliance and security standards.
BlackBerry, and Carphone Warehouse have teamed up with an advertising campaign for the BlackBerry Passport called the '5-Stars' Passport campaign.
BlackBerry has launched its Loyalty Program in India, allowing users to purchase BlackBerry devices at reduced prices from Infibeam. If you’re an existing BlackBerry legacy smartphone user, the offer gets better with an exchange program which will provide further price reductions.
BlackBerry announced today that Caprecom, one of the most important Colombian companies in the health services insurance sector and pension fund management, chose to upgrade to BES12.
Last week, BlackBerry released an update to BBM for BlackBerry 10 and Android that brought a much needed improvement in broadcast messaging, allowing users to send broadcast messages to specific categories.
Google has released an update to Google Play Services, bringing the latest version to version 7.3.
Version 7.3 of Google Play Services brings some new feature additions for developers to take advantage of.
BlackBerry today announced a white color version of the BlackBerry Classic smartphone. The white colored BlackBerry Classic is available this week in Indonesia through authorized distributors, and in Hong Kong through carrier partners.
BlackBerry have released new updates for BBM for BlackBerry 10, bringing the latest version to 10.8.5.14. This update brings a much needed improvement in broadcast messages, allowing users to send broadcast messages to specific categories.
Porsche Design and BlackBerry today launched the new Porsche Design P’9983 Graphite smartphone from BlackBerry in Singapore. This new member to the P’9983 family will provide exclusive graphite-metallic colored elements and the finest, hand-wrapped leather on the back door cover.
BlackBerry CEO John Chen & Chief Evangelist Mark Wilson are both to speak at MI Global next week. John Chen, Executive Chairman and CEO, BlackBerry will discuss Health Care in the Digital Age, from 10:45 am - 11:45 am
Box announced ‘Box Developer Edition‘ at its annual BoxDev event today, giving developers a way to build on the Box platform that allows you to seamlessly bring the full power of Box into your application.
Last month, WhatsApp introduced free voice calls to Android users of its Android app, and the feature is now rolling out to iOS users.
BlackBerry have confirmed that another of their high profile employees has opted to leave the company as Jeff Gadway, Director, Product Marketing - Enterprise, has now left BlackBerry for pastures new.
Royal Bank of Scotland have rolled out updates for their official RBS and NatWest apps on BlackBerry 10 , bringing both offerings up to version 4.0.0.15.
As part of BlackBerry's strategic shift towards focusing on the Enterprise, the BlackBerry Advertising Service will reach its end of life on June 16, 2015, at which time the servers will be disabled and the APIs (the Cascades Ad service , Core Advertising Service Library, and WebWorks Advertising API) will no longer work.
BlackBerry are enhancing the security of BlackBerry Protect by introducing BBID verification. In an email to BB10.3.2 beta testers, as from this afternoon at 4pm EST, changes in BlackBerry Protect which make essential device features unusable.
One of the most requested features from BlackBerry's BBM Channels users has been the ability to add multiple administrators (Contributors).
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Mobile visual communication platform  for the enterprise now available on BlackBerry 10. Foko is a mobile visual communication platform for the enterprise that allows co-workers to share ideas and events through photos to drive an exceptional level of engagement.
Sony Mobile is today launching its new global brand positioning ‘Everyday Extraordinary’ to its customers via an integrated campaign.
BlackBerry’s new cloud-based EMM solution is officially available today. Announced at Mobile World Congress earlier this month,
BlackBerry has made the decision to end of life the BlackBerry App Generator as part of their shift in strategic focus to serve the needs of enterprise customers. As such, no new applications will be accepted via the BlackBerry App Generator.
Yesterday, BlackBerry released an upgrade to their BBM Meetings apps bringing enhanced meeting privacy control and more. They also finally made available the BBM Meetings plugin for Microsoft Outlook, which they had originally announced back at MWC 2015.
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Microsoft has released a new Windows 10 Beta build , bringing the latest version to Build 10041.
The latest update brings a number of new features and Microsoft has retooled its release program to get new, fresher code more quickly to beta testers.
BlackBerry have informed their developers that changes in BlackBerry OS 10.3.1.1276 and higher can cause an application to freeze.
BlackBerry has won the dismissal of a U.S. lawsuit accusing it of fraudulently inflating its stock price by painting a misleadingly upbeat picture of the prospects for its BlackBerry 10 smartphone line.
With the latest update to BBM for BlackBerry 10 and iOS, BlackBerry introduced a couple of new subscription models, custom BBM Pins and No-Ads.
Healthcare is an important vertical segment for BlackBerry. At Mobile World Congress, Dr. Pavan Kumar of Hiranandani Hospital in Mumbai, India showcased an innovative solution.
BlackBerry have announced the release of the BlackBerry Native Plug-in for Microsoft Visual Studio v3 Gold.
The 3.0 Gold release of the BlackBerry Native Plug-in for Microsoft Visual Studio now supports only Microsoft Visual Studio Professional 2013 running in Windows 7 or Windows 8.1
A lot of users are finding that after upgrading BBM today they can't find BBM Custom Pin Subscription in BBM Shop.
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Heris IT have announced their latest app for BlackBerry 10 "Default Icons For BlackBerry 10". The Default Icons For BlackBerry 10 app contains a lot of icons which can easily be used by developers in any app for BlackBerry for free!
Pebble has released an early version of its software development kit for the Pebble Time Smartwatch. Apps built with Pebble SDK 3.0 are compatible with existing Pebble watches and will be compatible with Pebble Time.
Has BlackBerry given up on UK Consumers? Earlier this morning we reported how BlackBerry will have fewer than 1 million UK consumer users by the end of the year.
Yesterday, an article was published byFileArchiveHaven where Lloyd Summers wrote a fascinating article to share a high-level security analysis of 12 applications on BlackBerry 10 by monitoring their internet traffic and decompiling their BAR files when necessary.
Canada Revenue Agency has destroyed all text message records of its employees and has disabled logging of these messages in the future,
Tundra Core Studios have released ‘Heads Up’ – a native BlackBerry 10 utility application that takes advantage of your device’s rear camera and provides a text area to allow you to type and walk.
BlackBerry is moving away from its current global AOR model to give its communications teams the opportunity to work with local agencies.
Carval Computing has today announced that its HR Unity app is now available for download directly from the Apple iTunes App Store and from the Google Play Store.
It's that time of year again and BlackBerry have kicked off the festive season with FREE gift giveaways from BlackBerry World.
Meizu and Canonical have announced a new "strategic partnership", and provided a bit more info on when we should expect to see Ubuntu Touch devices available to buy.
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BlackBerry today introduced a white color BlackBerry Passport and a limited edition red color BlackBerry Passport.
BlackBerry have also introduced a new PayPal financing offer to help make purchases and payments easier on customers’ wallets.
VisionMobile has just launched their latest Developer Economics survey and is tracking developer trends across platforms, app revenues and dev tools - as well as investigating the emerging IoT market.
BlackBerry continued their developer support with the release of 10.3.1 gold sdk’s and Momentics IDE 2.1.1 Gold.
On Thursday, BlackBerry will begin a new chapter, revealing a portfolio of products and services that mark the beginning of secure possibilities.
Software developer Kdan Mobile is set to release PDF Reader 6 Premium, the latest generation of the company’s flagship PDF Reader app.
BlackBerry have officially announced the launch of the new Developer Enterprise Groups which builds on the foundation of the previous Developer Groups Program.
BlackBerry have released an upgrade to BBM for Windows Phone, bringing notification improvements, new features and bug fixes, taking the latest version to 1.2.0.12.
If you have bought yourself the new BlackBerry Passport, BlackBerry have produced a free e-book to help you learn all about the new smartphone.
BlackBerry are due to release the BlackBerry Classic next month. The new design heralds the return of the classic trackpad...
BlackBerry has appointed Michael Daniels, former Chairman and CEO of Mobile 365, to the Company's Board of Directors.
Administrators spend countless hours trying to determine the source of server problems and they are often elusive. Many issues are...
Apple has started rolling out iOS 8 live for iPhone users today. Unveiled earlier this summer, iOS 8 brings improvements to...
Tundra Core Studios have today released Hub Browser, a native utility application for quick internet access on BlackBerry 10. The...
BlackBerry has announced a new partnership with social media management software and services company Hootsuite that allows the BBM Channels...
As we’ve recently reported, Phones4U has been forced into administration and the business’ retail stores will be closed from today....
