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.
Last week on the BlackBerry Business Blog, BlackBerry called out the Blackphone describing it as ‘Consumer-Grade Privacy that’s Inadequate for Business’ and offered...
According to new findings from a study conducted by Ipsos MORI on behalf of TRUSTe, 64% of UK internet users agree that the 'Right to be Forgotten'* should be a human right.
The latest edition of the annual TRUSTe Consumer Confidence Index shows that online privacy is a significant concern in Britain with 92 percent of Internet users worried about their privacy when using the internet and 1 in 3 (33 percent) more concerned than a year ago.
Discord is an essential tool for web3 communities, but can quickly become overwhelming and tedious without the right tools to help you navigate it.
The digital world offers many opportunities for business growth however it exposes organisations to new cyber risks. Weak cyber security can leave organisations exposed and the revenue repercussions can be severe. Joe Collinwood, CEO at CySure identifies the risks and how to mitigate them.
A new survey has found that mobile data speeds aren’t meeting modern day requirements with 60% of respondents claiming to...
More than two-thirds (67 per cent) of organisations admit that unauthorised cloud applications are being implemented without IT’s knowledge or involvement, and correspondingly pose a security risk to the business.
Companies in healthcare/medical tend to be fast-paced, and, as part of that, look for the most efficient, cost-effective ways of running their business, including the extensive use of tech, IT and data communications.
There are several significant features that can industrialise IoT, including Machine 2 Machine communication, Edge Appliances and automation use cases, with one of the main drivers being the use of sensors.
The skills shortage facing the technology industry is a major issue and enterprises are failing to address the talent shortfall. Anthony Webb, Vice-President of EMEA for A10 Networks thinks that companies need to think carefully about how they present themselves to potential employees. In making the enterprise more appealing more talent will come.
BlackBerry World 2012 has been and gone and in the aftermath, RIM shares dropped to an 8 year low. Is the shares drop really such a shock, considering that the main word to describe BlackBerry World 2012 is “potential"
As the Internet continues to go mobile, smartphones and tablets have become prime targets for malware attacks. The threat is real. But how much do consumers know about the risk of mobile malware?
New research published today on the network activity of 1 million European mobile phone users has revealed the threat of a cyber-attack more than doubled during the games.
A recent survey showed 41% of UK workers admit to using WhatsApp for work purposes despite it being against WhatsApp’s legal terms of service.
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.
Gartner recently published its Q4 smartphone ranking global sales of smartphones to end users, totalling 432 million units in the fourth quarter of 2016, a 7 percent increase over the fourth quarter of 2015.
The BlackBerry Q3 financial report made the August disaster look good. Sales of devices to end users of 4.3 million...
According to a new report from Arelion (formerly Telia Carrier), a third (32%) of business leaders admit that over 50% of their decision-making process is based on emotional response or ‘gut feel’ when choosing a network provider.
In conjunction with OnePoll, Carphone surveyed mobile habits of 2000 smartphone users in the UK to find out what habits annoy us most, and which habits we’re guilty of ourselves, in a bid to bring back good old-fashioned phone etiquette.
Jeff Deline, vice president of global partnerships at Maple Leaf Sports & Entertainment Ltd., says he is banking on BBM...
2015 has been an interesting year for smartphones. We've seen Microsoft launch the first Windows 10 mobiles, BlackBerry launch their first ever Android smartphone and all the major players have produced great smartphones with a variety of features.
The news that BlackBerry's global decryption key has been in the hands of the RCMP since 2010 raised it's ugly head last week, prompting BlackBerry CEO John Chen to (once again) take to the BlackBerry blog.
BlackBerry's upcoming Android phone is generating a huge amount of interest on the Interwebs but unfortunately, this can also lead to fakes
Earlier this week, there was a "report" published which basically suggested that BlackBerry phones sales had dried up in the UK and that the "expert" opinion was that BlackBerry were given a year to live,
Earlier this week, BlackBerry announced that it’s planning to discontinue its Classic smartphone, the last BlackBerry handset to feature the traditional keyboard and trackpad dominating the face of the phone.
BlackBerry CEO John declared today BlackBerry are now safe as a company. More importantly, he reiterated the fact that customers, enterprises and more all believe that BlackBerry, as a company, is here to stay.
For the first time a BlackBerry executive and has come out and said that BlackBerry will indeed be dropping their own BlackBerry 10 OS in time.
When Android first made its way into the consumer market, no one could have predicted the impact it would have. Android was an operating system developed with a simple idea at its core..
Frost & Sullivan has published an assessment of the cyberthreat landscape and the proportion that BlackBerry’s suite of technologies can protect against, concluding that BlackBerry can secure all IoT endpoints, and upwards of 96% of all cyberthreats.
There is a media trend happening at BlackBerry and it is not a good one. Invariably, BlackBerry CEO John Chen will make a statement, the media will report on what he says, and John Chen will take to the BlackBerry Blogs in an attempt to clarify what he initially said.
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
CNET is celebrating it's twentieth birthday and asked "the visionaries building our new world" to reflect on the digital revolution and what it means for our future.
BlackBerry CEO John Chen believes BlackBerry’s role in “the new era of computing” is “more necessary than ever”, because of...
In another interview with Fox Business, John Chen, Executive Chairman and CEO, BlackBerry is once again questioned on how BlackBerry's turnaround strategy is coming along.
BlackBerry announced yesterday that they have entered a definitive agreement to acquire Good Technology for $425 million in cash.
When Fairfax CEO Prem Watsa met with Chen early last October at a luxury resort in Napa Valley to discuss...
Google’s forthcoming Android L update, promises to make life easier for corporate employees currently carrying more than one smartphone. “As...
As BlackBerry celebrates its 35th birthday today, touting "35 years of innovation", BlackBerry CEO John Chen said the new foldable phones from Samsung, Huawei and others are just not innovative or particularly useful.
BlackBerry CEO John Chen has written another article, this time in Gadget Web Site in South Africa,  where explains why...
In an interview with the Wall Street Journal, BlackBerry CEO John Chen was asked a  question of why customers should...
Last Thursday we report how another high level executive had quit BlackBerry, as Varghese M. Thomas‎, Director – Corporate Communications – India & SAARC quit BlackBerry in India.
The debate about whether law enforcement should possess the ability to access encrypted communications has once again risen to the surface.
BlackBerry has changed from being just a smartphone manufacturer and they will continue to do so until they return to...
Cleveland Research Analysts have updated their position on BlackBerry, rating the stock a Neutral with a 12-month price target of $7.73.
Mobile threats have been around nearly as long as the mobile phone, but they continue to increase in number and complexity as mobile devices become more embedded in, and critical to, our everyday lives. What started out as a somewhat limited attack surface more than a decade ago has grown into a vast landscape of devices utilising the iOS and Android operating systems.
BlackBerry reported financial results Friday for the three months and fiscal year ended February 29, 201, generating $464 million in revenue, down 30% from last year and well below the $563 million expected by Wall Street.
BlackBerry entered the Communications Platform as a Service (CPaaS) market yesterday with BBM Enterprise SDK that will enable developers to integrate secure messaging, voice and video capabilities into applications and services.
Automakers and suppliers must make enhancing cybersecurity a key focus of their cultures if the connected, autonomous vehicles of the future are to be safe.
BlackBerry CEO John Chen says his plan for a turnaround includes a yet-to-be revealed machine-to-machine offering that he says will...
BlackBerry cancelled their annual BlackBerry Live event this this year and replaced it with smaller half-day events in various cities around the world. The events took place in New York (US), Montreal and Toronto (Canada), Chicago (US), Cologne (Germany), Washington DC (US) ending in London here in the UK.
BlackBerry’s chief operating officer (COO) Marty Beard spoke at the GoodExchange Cyber Security Summit 2015 in London today.
Today, Interim BlackBerry CEO, John Chen had a commentary posted on CNBC that lends a bit more information to his overall...
Marty Beard is the former CEO of LiveOps who left to become chief operating officer of BlackBerry, a move which emphasises...
BlackBerry announced a licensing agreement with the Amazon Appstore today to bring the Amazon Appstore to BlackBerry 10 device users when...
While the rumors of a BlackBerry smartphone running pure Android continue to increase on the interwebs, BlackBerry CEO John Chen remains silent on the subject.
BlackBerry's new India managing director Narendra Nayak says his first task is to win back customer confidence while rebuilding the business.
A few days ago BlackBerry rolled out OS 10.2.1 for all BlackBerry 10 devices. Without a doubt, the most important features of this upgrade were the security enhancements.
In my opinion, BlackBerry have never really produced a great, up-to-date BlackBerry 10 smartphone. Now while some BlackBerry users may argue that statement, the reality is that BlackBerry smartphones, when launched, have always been a step behind in specs, design, etc.
Speaking to journalists at a briefing ahead of Mobile World Congress 2018, Francois Mahieu, the chief commercial officer of BlackBerry Mobile, said he hopes to capture 3 percent to 5 percent of the market for premium phones in the next few years.
While remaining silent for such a long time, BlackBerry have finally announced the existence of the Android phone, called the Priv, and stated that it will be available before the end of the calendar year.
Our readers have named the BlackBerry Priv as the Best Smartphone of 2015. For three weeks, readers have been voting their best smartphone of 2015 and we tallied over 38,000 votes.
The head of one of Canada’s top pension funds confirmed on Thursday his firm was involved in talks over a...
There is an aura of gloom surrounding BlackBerry 10 and for once it is not coming from the media, it is coming from BlackBerry 10 users.
BlackBerry has rejected political moves to ban strong encryption, saying that it’s a short-sighted policy that would not serve companies or governments.
Independent research firm Strategy Analytics, says it has determined that BlackBerry QNX software is now embedded in over 195 million vehicles, an increase of 20 million from the year before.
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‘s stock had its “market perform†rating reiterated by Wells Fargo in a research report issued on Monday. They presently have a $7.62 target price on the company’s stock.
Earlier in the week, WhatsApp announced it was dropping support for Android 2.1/2.2, Windows Phone 7.1, Nokia S40, Symbian S60 and BlackBerry OS platforms by the end of this year.
BlackBerry announced on Wednesday that it had acquired U.K.-based cyber security consultancy Encription to kick off their new Professional Cybersecurity Services practice.
BlackBerry's downsized employee base in India is not a deliberate move to cut staff but a result of a global transformation drive, according to Steven E. Zipperstein, Chief Legal Officer, BlackBerry.
BlackBerry is determined to keep its lead in enterprise mobility management (EMM), making sure that customers have the widest options and top-class solutions possible, Mike Al Mefleh, BlackBerry’s product management director for the Middle East, has told Khaleej Times.
In an interview with Business Insider, BlackBerry CEO John Chen says he'll make BlackBerry's smartphone business profitable again.
BlackBerry CEO John Chen believes that he has already implemented a turnaround strategy that economics students will be reading about for decades.
Vodafone has today revealed the results of research with YouGov that show how Brits are missing out on £6.9 billion of potential savings by not trading in their existing handsets as they upgrade to the latest tech.
You have probably heard of the iTunescard, also called the iTunes voucher. With these vouchers you can buy your favorite music and movies in the iTunes Store. But did you know that you can also use the iTunes vouchers in the App Store and iBooks Store?
Nokia’s campaign announcing the relaunch of its classic 3310 mobile has had a significant impact on consumer engagement with the brand - 50% of consumers say they have read or heard about Nokia in the past week.
Led by academics from University of Edinburgh Business School and The University of St Andrews, the study analysed the performance of banks directed by more than 600 US-born Chief Executive Officers who were children or...
Prospective parents might want to look away now. A new survey has found that children in the UK as young as 4 will be receiving a brand new mobile phone from Santa this Christmas.
Every since the rumors on the internet started about BlackBerry producing an Android smartphone, BlackBerry users have been involved in terse, sometimes heated, debates over whether BlackBerry could actually produce an Android smartphone.
Research from O2 Business, in partnership with Retail Economics, reveals how the dramatic increase in online shopping has fast-forwarded the way that customers want to shop – signalling an imminent change in the retail sector.
Despite 71% believing UK data protection laws should be stronger, 53% still admit to sending sensitive documents by email and...
The basis on which the UK will leave the EU has still to be decided but the Government has made clear that the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) will be absorbed into UK law at the point of exit, so there will be no substantive change to the rules that most organisations need to follow.
In the IoT industry, the term “IoT connectivity” is typically about the IoT network solutions behind this type of connectivity: WiFi, cellular, LPWAN and others.
Rumours, rumours, rumours! The Internet is awash with them. The latest rumour doing the rounds is that BlackBerry OS 10.2.1...
Three out of four (77%) prospective electric vehicle (EV) drivers believe signage around public chargers should turn green to help them stand out
Huawei Wireless X Labs has released Eight Categories of 5G Commercial Use Cases white paper. Based on deployment practices and 5G research conducted by Huawei, network operators, and industry partners, the white paper elaborates on eight applications with market potential and suitable for large-scale commercial adoption.
A new report by a leading global provider of decision science and big data analytics solutions, Mu Sigma, has revealed a diverse landscape when it comes to how multinational enterprises tackle problem solving and analytics.
A new report from Kaleido Intelligence, a connectivity market intelligence and consulting firm, has found that over 1.4 billion eSIMs (including eUICC and iUICC form factors) will be shipped in 2028
John Chen sat down with the Washington Post and discussed everything from the influence of his Catholic high school, why almost no job is beneath a person, to how he plans to rescue BlackBerry.
For 12 years, Gregory Wade worked as a senior executive at BlackBerry, leading the company’s fast-growing Asia-Pacific business unit – a division that included vast emerging markets such as Indonesia.
Ian Kilpatrick, chairman Wick Hill Group, specialists in secure IP infrastructure solutions, looks at the risks involved with mobile devices...
Since news of BlackBerry’s lawsuit against Typo hit the wires at on Friday, the stock has gone on a tear, surging from...
The architects of G-Cloud, the UK public sector procurement framework for information technology services that use cloud computing, are calling on government, departments, the Government Digital Service (GDS), buyers and sellers to do more to encourage its adoption four years after its initial launch.
DisplayMate Technologies has released the results of its comprehensive evaluation of the Galaxy S8’s Infinity Display, concluding that Samsung’s new flagship possesses “the best-performing smartphone display that we have ever tested.”
DisplayMate Technologies has released the results of its comprehensive evaluation of the Galaxy S9’s Infinity Display, concluding that Samsung’s new flagship possesses “the best-performing smartphone display that we have ever tested.”
The managing director of Secusmart has said that the German government will not raise any objections to BlackBerry’s planned acquisition...
Delivering gigabit connectivity to every corner of Britain could provide more than a £50bn economic boost in the next five years, according to a new report by Assembly Research.
A10 Networks today launched new research examining the behaviour and attitudes of the workforce towards the use of business and personal apps and its impact on risk, security and corporate culture.
A veteran Wall Street analyst who covered BlackBerry for more than a decade has come back from a two-year hiatus to warn investors the company's handset unit is dragging down the business and should be shut down.
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.
With the upcoming release of the BlackBerry Priv, BlackBerry's first ever smartphone powered by Android, there has been a lot of talk about the future of BlackBerry 10.
Last week, BlackBerry’s senior VP for marketing, Mark Wilson, and Gyro’s CEO and Chief Creative Officer, Christoph Becker, made a joint presentation at BMA15.
Video games have long suffered the stigma of being a waste of time, according to countless complaining mothers the world over. They’re also addictive, socially isolating and can even pose health risks if taken to the extreme
MetaMe will potentially be the world’s first crypto-complete wallet and universal personal data marketplace, helping build online communities by paying individuals to share metapods (or mPods).
In an Oxford Economics report released today titled The Economic Impact of Huawei, Huawei was found to have contributed EUR16.4 billion to Europe's GDP and supported 224,300 jobs in 2019.
Guo Ping, Huawei’s Rotating Chairman has encouraged the global developer community to take advantage of the "golden opportunity" offered by 5G combined with other technologies.
At the Huawei Global Analyst Summit 2020 (HAS 2020) on May 19, Huawei Enterprise Business Group shared its insights into industry trends and challenges it currently faces with global analysts and media.enter
Huawei is more trusted by the UK public than Facebook, according to the results of a UK consumer survey conducted by Censuswide. The survey examined attitudes towards the big messaging platform providers (i.e. Facebook Messenger, WhatsApp), as well as wider consumer trust in the technology sector.
The Information Commissioner is reminding organisations to be transparent with people’s personal information, after a survey revealed trust and confidence in how organisations handle personal data is still low, despite an improvement across sectors.
Within the next few months Apple’s much anticipated iPhone 8 will hit the UK market. With iOS11 due to debut around the same time as the new iPhone launches, the timing of the new technologies and much rumoured features.
The latest smartphone OS sales data from Kantar Worldpanel ComTech shows that iOS achieved continued growth across most regions tracked, except for Japan, Spain, and Urban China.
Consumer Intelligence Research Partners (CIRP) released the results of its analysis of the first 30 days of iPhone XR sales in the U.S. In short, not only is the iPhone XR one of Apple's best-selling iPhones, but it's also one of the most appealing iOS-based phones for Android users.
Due to internet connection problems, 8.5 million UK households suffered work, schooling or entertainment disruption, or were cut off from their families, during the Covid-19 lockdown.
Yesterday we showed you a video of users in Indonesia queuing up to buy the BlackBerry Z3, indicating that sales...
BlackBerry’s Italian subsidiary is undergoing some changes. Alberto Acito, managing director for south-east Europe, left the company in January and...
In an interview with Forbes, John Chen states what it takes to turn a company around, why he decided to do...
BlackBerry CEO John Chen has reiterated that the company is not for sale  at least for now. Still, Chen doesn't have any plans to exit the hardware business completely. He says his reasoning for that risky decision is both practical and emotional.
BlackBerry CEO John Chen sat down with USA Today to discuss how his strategy for BlackBerry is working.
The interview follows, edited for clarity and length.
BlackBerry is going through a turnaround phase but it may not be a survivor. Even BlackBerry CEO John Chen compares...