BlackBerry Announces Ten Winners of Female Scholars Program
BlackBerry announced a Blackberry Scholars scholarship program with Alicia Keys awhile back and now they are ready to announce the 10 winners from around the world. They surprisingly only had 500 applicants though they did come from 65 countries. The goal is to get more women into tech with full scholarships to study science, technology,…
T-Mobile Z10 Finally Getting OS Update Together With Wi-Fi Calling
T-Mobile users with Q10’s got a nice OS update a bit back and now Z10 users will also get in on the fun. Adam @CrackBerry noticed that the T-Mobile’s support docs show an update coming to OS 10.1.0.4780 on September 5th. That should pack in Wi-Fi calling and other nice improvements.
Developers Check Out BlackBerry Jam Starter Sessions in Washington, Austin, & Atlanta
BlackBerry is trying something new with BlackBerry Jam Starter Sessions in three US universities. They are going around to these universities and offering a one day program to teach you about coding, app building, and BlackBerry World submissions. They are still touting that 120,000 app number but that does not diminish the usefulness of working…
Microsoft Buys Nokia Phone Division To Create ‘first-rate’ Smartphone Experience
Microsoft has finally sealed the deal with Nokia by acquiring their phone division and patents. They explain that they need a “first-rate” experience for smartphone users that they are not yet providing. They want to compete with the strength of Google and Apple. This more or less confirms that neither Microsoft or Nokia will be…
BBM for Android Caught on Camera
It seems like BBM for Android just cannot stay under wraps. The latest update comes to us in the form of a video from BlackBerryOS showing the app in action. Its nice to see the app running nice and smooth…
BlackBerry Files Patents for BlackBerry 10 Keyboard & Toast Notifications
BlackBerry has quite a few innovative user interface elements in BlackBerry 10 including the awesome flick keyboard. N4BB spotted two patent applications for some of these UI elements including the virtual predictive keyboard and the toast notification system. Both were published late last month. Check them out below: HANDHELD DEVICE WITH NOTIFICATION MESSAGE VIEWING TOUCHSCREEN…
BlackBerry 10.2 Adding Dark and Light Themes For Certain Apps
Michael Clewley at BlackBerry has confirmed on his BBM Channel over the weekend that BlackBerry does listen (sometimes). BlackBerry is going to allow users to change between a dark and light theme in the following apps: Calendar, Contacts, BBM, and SMS. I am not sure why they don’t allow on all apps but something…
HP ePrint Enterprise Hits the BlackBerry Z10
Corporate users on BlackBerry 10 will be happy to learn that HP has brought their ePrint enterprise app to BlackBerry 10. This allows you to print from wherever you are using their HP ePrint Enterprise cloud if your company has it deployed. You can also use the app to search for public locations that…