MLB.com At Bat 14 for BlackBerry 10 Hits BlackBerry World
As promised MLB.com has released their MLB.com At Bat 14 app for BlackBerry 10. This is the official MLB app for the latest live baseball information all season long. This includes live home and away audio broadcasts along with the ability to watch out of market regular season games live. There are loads of features…
Qualcomm Teams Up with QNX at Mobile World Congress 2014
Qualcomm technologies just gave BlackBerry another shot in the arm with their partnership on the new Qualcomm Snapdragon Automotive Solutions powered by the QNX CAR platform. They have been demoing the new platform at Mobile World Congress this week on a modified Mercedes Benz CLA45 AMG to show off the latest Snapdragon Automotive Solutions. Features…
Analyst Explains Why Samsung Knox Has Flopped
A year ago Samsung flooded the market with their vaporware product called Samsung Knox. This product was intended to compete with BlackBerry and take over the enterprise market by providing a secure Android solution. Now a year later the product has been a complete flop and Samsung seems to have moved on from positioning themselves…
John Chen Lays Out “Simple Plan To Save BlackBerry” in Latest Interview
John Chen has not been shy with the media. He recently sat down for an exclusive interview with The Globe and Mail where he reveals a bit more about his “Simple Plan to Save BlackBerry.” He explains why he decided to take on the challenge of saving BlackBerry and a bit about how he plans…
WhatsApp Taken to Task for Claiming to Value Privacy
I was waiting to see how long this would take to come out. The media has recently been playing up WhatsApp founder Jan Koum and his experience escaping Big Brother KGB privacy invasions in Soviet Ukraine. Supposedly this led to Koum’s focus on user privacy when he developed WhatsApp. Anyone who has been following the…
Encrypt and Decrypt PGP Messages on BlackBerry 10 with PGpgp
I have been looking for a PGP client for my BlackBerry 10 device for awhile now so I was really happy when James pointed out PGpgp to me. PGpgp allows you to encrypt and decrypt PGP messages on your BlackBerry in a native application. The implementation of PGP is actually pretty solid in the app…
WhatsApp Adding Voice to Their Service in Next Quarter
WhatsApp is making some waves recently with their acquisition by Facebook for an obscene sum. They have now announced at Mobile World Congress that they are going to take another page out of BBM’s book and add voice calling to the WhatsApp service. This is going to come to Android and iOS first and…
BlackBerry VP of Design, Don Lindsay, Leaves BlackBerry
BlackBerry is really cleaning up their executive stack. Their latest departure (for unknown reasons) is Don Lindsay who was VP of Design at BlackBerry. He has been at BlackBerry since 2009 and led the acquisition of The Astonishing Tribe which defined the UI of BlackBerry 10. BlackBerry’s SVP of Design, Todd Wood, is still…