Passport Coming To South Africa
South Africa – Johannesburg – BlackBerry Limited (NASDAQ: BBRY; TSX: BB), a global leader in mobile communications, today announced that the BlackBerry® Passport, a new device purpose-built for productivity with a boundary-breaking design that challenges the status quo, will be available in South Africa from authorized partners in early November. Featuring a large square touch…
BlackBerry World Updated to Fix Vulnerability
We have picked up a post via MobileSyrup that BlackBerry has published a knowledge base article outlining a vulnerability in AppWorld. A vulnerability exists in the BlackBerry World service’s download mechanism, which is used by the BlackBerry World app on affected BlackBerry 10 smartphones. BlackBerry World allows you to search for and download apps for…
Carrier List To Buy Your BlackBerry Passport
We saw that Telus had a “Time to Market” of one week from the launch of the BlackBerry Passport, but now that has past and as of the 1st October more carriers are now stocking. Bla1ze over at crackberry.com has taken the time to compile a list and direct product offers of the carriers to…
BlackBerry Appoints Mike Daniels to the Board of Directors
Waterloo, ON – BlackBerry Limited (NASDAQ: BBRY; TSX: BB) announced today that it has appointed Michael Daniels, former Chairman and CEO of Mobile 365, to the Company’s Board of Directors. “I am pleased to welcome Mike to our Board of Directors. BlackBerry and our customers will benefit greatly from Mike’s broad technology experience and specifically his…
BlackBerry Youtube Channel Updated
The BlackBerry Media team have uploaded 15 short videos that covers most if not all aspects of the BlackBerry Passport. They have covered topics from Getting Started, to the individual applications and integration with Blend to get you going with your new Passport. Personally I am still impressed with the hybridization (for lack of better…
BlackBerry Passport Demo Published
As we have seen for other models, BlackBerry has released their dedicated model demo for the Passport covering all the relevant topics to get started on your new BlackBerry Passport. I was particularly interested in the usage of the physical touch keyboard and how this integrates with the virtual keyboard functions and options. You can…
BlackBerry Blend Security Note
Are you wanting to know a little more about the security aspects of Blackberry Blend, BlackBerry has published their Security Note for version 1.0.1. You can connect BlackBerry Blend directly to a BlackBerry 10 device using a USB connection. When you do so, data is protected using AES-256 encryption. A BlackBerry 10 device connects to…
Not Finding BlackBerry Blend [UPDATE]
[UPDATE Sept 25, 2014] The replication and URL correction for www.blackberry.com/blendsupport for the global sub-domain redirection has been resolved. All links now working for those that redirect outside of CA and US. [UPDATE Sept 25, 2014] BlackBerry has reached out to us and let us know that the issues has been resolved and all links…