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BlackBerry Plans to Divest Over 3 Million Square Feet of Canadian Real Estate Holdings

  John Chen seems to have a plan to lengthen the runway he has to get BlackBerry back up off the floor. BlackBerry announced today that they plan on offering up the majority of its commercial real estate portfolio with over 3 million square feet of space for sale. The deals are mostly a combination…

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BlackBerry World Now Featuring Gamepad Compatible Games

BlackBerry has been trying to push developers to support Bluetooth gamepads in their games. That effort is starting to bear a few fruit and BlackBerry is nicely rewarding them. First of all they are giving away two free gamepads to developers. On top of that they have now created a category just for games that…

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BBM Limited Beta Updated in Beta Zone With "UI Polish" & More

BlackBerry has pushed out a nice update to BBM for BlackBerry 10 in the Beta Zone today. The new update brings performance improvements to Glympse along with UI Polish and improved notification performance. They have also added improved avatar handling and more emoticons. Keep in mind this is still a limited beta release so only…

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New BlackBerry Exec Smacks Down Samsung Enterprise Solution

BlackBerry CEO John Chen just brought in John Sims to lead the Enterprise Service side of BlackBerry. Now Sims has made his first public debut with a blog post on the enterprise blog. In it Sims smacks down Samsung by pointing out its many security bugs and the fact that Samsung is very green to…

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Password Keeper Updated with Import/Export Feature on BlackBerry 10

We knew this was coming for awhile but Amir let me know that it is now official. Password Keeper was updated today for BlackBerry 10 with a new Import and Export function. You can now export or import from a CSV file, encrypted backup file, or cloud service. Check out the update here.

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BlackBerry 10.2.1 Bringing “Floating Action Bar” With Back Button

Those of you who have been missing their back button are getting some love in OS 10.2.1 if you have not played with the betas yet. BlackBerry has added what they call a “Floating Action Bar” on top of the keyboard in many apps that gives you a back button and common actions if you…

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Founder of Torch Mobile, George Staikos, Leaves BlackBerry

BlackBerry acquired Torch Mobile in 2009 to bring their Webkit powered browser to BlackBerry 7 and eventually BlackBerry 10. George Staikos was the founder of Torch Mobile and he has been there since the acquisition. His brother Matthew Staikos left earlier this year to start his own gig but now his brother has joined him….

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Phillips Dictation Recorder is Beautiful (and Free!) on BlackBerry 10

  Phillips put out a gorgeous dictation app for all BlackBerry 10 users. Phillips Dictation Recorder lets you easily take down voice notes and share them over email. The app is designed for professional use to hook it up to Phillips SpeechExec servers but can also be used without the server. With the server it…

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