BlackBerry’s Top BlackBerry 10 App Releases for the Week
Its the Wednesday again which means BlackBerry has put out their list of top app releases for the week. This release has the big fish including Salesforce and Soundcloud. More on the others soon! Highlights of the Week: The level of productivity available on BlackBerry 10 smartphones is now higher than ever, thanks to…
BlackBerry WebWorks SDK 2.0 Beta Released Built on Apache Cordova
BlackBerry’s WebWorks team has been working hard to align their project and make it compatible with Apache Cordova (formerly PhoneGap). They finally achieved that with this beta bringing us alignment with Cordova. Now that support for BlackBerry 10 is built into the Apache Cordova engine all PhoneGap and other downstream Cordova distributions can fully…
Former BlackBerry CMO, COO, & CFO Walking Away With $6.8 Million
Interim CEO John Chen cleaned up the C-Suite at BlackBerry and now the bill is coming due. BlackBerry put out a release stating that these executives will be getting a collective $6.8 million when they leave. Here is how the golden parachutes break down: Chief Financial Officer Brian Bidulka – $3 million ($1.2 million for…
New Phone Tap Call Recorder App for BlackBerry 10 from Devcellent
Devcellent Solutions has a nice track record on BlackBerry 10 with their popular Hub++ app and others. Now they have expanded into the black art of call recording on BlackBerry 10. So far call recorders have been hit and miss though Devcellents Phone Tap Call Recorder seems to work on my Z30. I cannot promise…
How To Create & Subscribe to BBM Channels (Video)
Now that BBM Channels has expanded and released in BlackBerry World we have a much larger audience for the platform. BlackBerry is putting out some guides on how to use the new service though I have not found a good full user guide yet. Until then we have the following two videos from BlackBerry on…
BBM Channels Update Now in BlackBerry World for BlackBerry 10 & Legacy Devices
BlackBerry 10 and legacy OS 5.0+ BlackBerrys just got an update to BBM in BlackBerry World. This is coming with the introduction of BBM Channels out of Beta as we told you earlier today. This update is not bringing anything radically new that was not in the Beta Zone but rather just exposing channels to…
Evernote Beta 4 Released in BlackBerry Beta Zone (BB10)
Evernote is once again using the BlackBerry Beta Zone to release a beta. The latest Beta 4 brings us to 5.2.0.50 with a bunch of updates. This version brings autotitle along with improved offline access for premium users. Here is the full change log: Autotitle: use location and calendar information to automatically set a new…
A Little Background on The Man Behind BlackBerry’s Strategic Review – Timothy Dattels
There was quite a bit of back room dealing going on in the strategic review BlackBerry underwent earlier this year. We know that BlackBerry was having multiple threads of conversation with different companies which led to the current Fairfax investment and John Chen as CEO. The Globe and Mail (I am loving their coverage…