Facebook for BlackBerry Legacy Devices Gets v4.2 in Beta Zone
BlackBerry is testing out a new revision of their Facebook app for BlackBerry legacy devices. This new update brings a slew of new improvements to the app. Thankfully BlackBerry has listed them out: Right to Left language is fully supported Ability to unlike a page functionality Ability to share a post to user’s own timeline,…
BlackBerry In Talks With Cisco Systems, Google Inc and SAP According to Reuters
Reuters is reporting that there are a few new suitors for BlackBerry coming out of the woodwork for the whole or parts of BlackBerry. The new companies are Cisco Systems, Google Inc and SAP. TechCrunch has a decent analysis of why each company would be interested in BlackBerry. The gist is Google for patents and…
Evernote for BlackBerry 10 Adds New Features in Latest Update
Evernote updated their new BlackBerry 10 app to v5.1.0.144 in BlackBerry World this weekend. This update is a nice bump with much faster performance. It also adds some features I appreciate including the ability to attach photos or audio to a note. Check out the updated change log below: Attach a picture or a…
BlackBerry Sidetracked By Class Action Lawsuit
BlackBerry was hit with a new class action lawsuit this weekend. The lawsuit is being filed in New York for stockholders who purchased stock between September 27, 2012 and September 20, 2013. The lawsuit claims that BlackBerry misrepresented the situation to shareholders and is also encouraging people to step out of the woodwork. These…
CBS Bringing Full TV Streaming App to BlackBerry 10 Before End of Year (US)
CBS just released their CBS App for Android and Windows 8 today with some great content available. The best part is that they promised to bring the app to BlackBerry 10 users before the end of the year. This essentially means we will have full episode streaming on our devices to catch up on the…
Badland Hits BlackBerry 10 With Scoreloop Integration & Beautiful Graphic
I have been waiting for Badland to finally land on BlackBerry 10 and it is here. Thankfully it is available for all devices including the Q10 but sadly it is still in widescreen on the Q10. Still the sidescrolling game has been a heavy hitter on other platforms and is sure to be a…
Brand Strategy Analysis of BlackBerry Shows Some Hard Learned Lessons
My wife sent me this interesting analysis by Brand Strategy Insider of BlackBerry’s current situation. They detail the 10 lessons companies should learn from BlackBerry’s school of hard knocks. I found it very interesting because it focused heavily on the fact that you need to keep up with what your customers want and where the…
LinkedIn for BlackBerry 10 Bumped Up to v10.1.5
BlackBerry just rolled out an update to LinkedIn for BlackBerry 10. The new version brings better search and user interface elements. Best of all you can now search keywords with a unified search. Here is the change log: What’s New in LinkedIn 10.1.5: Improved search for People, Jobs, and Companies – Users are now…