BlackBerry has appointed David Nicol as managing director across Australia and New Zealand. Nicol was previously director of cloud services and new business at Citrix since January 2017, having joined the vendor in May 2013 as the director of field sales, before becoming director of workspace product sales in 2015.
In Australia, Briggs Communications has partnered with BlackBerry's AtHoc to launch a mass incident alerting and communication solution for Melbourne's major venues and organisations; enabling them to communicate during a critical incident.
BlackBerry today announced Bank of New Zealand (BNZ), one of the country's largest banks, is one of the latest customers in the region to deploy BlackBerry AtHoc, the company's secure crisis communications software.
BlackBerry Cylance, a business unit of BlackBerry, today announced that it has completed an Australian Information Security Registered Assessors Program (IRAP) assessment by an accredited IRAP auditor.
BlackBerry has teamed up with Optus Business in the deployment of BlackBerry Workspaces, for medical research organisation, Melanoma Institute Australia (MIA).
TCL has announced that it will be launching the BlackBerry KEY2 and KEY2 LE in Australia in June.
BlackBerry KEY2 will be available in both black and red editions, while the KEY2 will only be available in black.
BlackBerry has filed an opposition to Australian company Baby Bunting's application for a logo representing "the silhouettes of two pregnant women".
BlackBerry today announced that PRIV by BlackBerry, the first-ever BlackBerry smartphone powered by Android, will be available from Optus in Australia from Thursday 4th February.
The BlackBerry Priv, BlackBerry's first Android-powered smartphone, can now be ordered in Australia. At the time of publishing no carriers have revealed plans to carry the device.
Cybersecurity specialist, emt Distribution, has signed a distribution agreement with BlackBerry that will enable wider availability of BlackBerry cybersecurity solutions and services for organisations and reseller partners in Australia and New Zealand.
Ericsson and Telstra are teaming up to develop an enterprise edge cloud solution developed specifically for the Telstra domain.
Australia is drafting a new regulation that Facebook says misunderstands the dynamics of the internet and will do damage to the very news organisations the government is trying to protect. In response, Facebook has said Australian users will no longer be able to post news stories on its platforms in protest of proposed media bargaining legislation.
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