Dan Loeb’s Third Point Discloses 2% Stake in BlackBerry at End of 2013
It seems like another activist hedge fund manager has taken an interest in BlackBerry. Dan Loeb at Third Point has disclosed that they had 10 million shares of BlackBerry stock at the end of 2013. That translates into about 1.9% of BlackBerry compared to Fairfax with its 10.5%. This is all about BlackBerry being…
Geekbench Report Shows Jakarta With Similar Specs to Cancelled C-Series
It seems like I jumped the gun a bit last week with that Geekbench benchmark that turned out to be BlackBerry’s cancelled C-Series “Cafe” devices. Piotr at BBNews.pl pointed me to the actual benchmark for what looks like the Foxconn made Jakarta that has very similar specs to the cancelled C-Series. On the other hand…
OS 10.2.1.2141 Leaks Out for BlackBerry Z30 – More Coming Soon!
We have a new OS coming thanks to Legend of CrackBerry forums. The new version is 10.2.1.2141 and is now available for the Z30. He is working to bring it to all devices. Check out the details and updates here. Thanks Amir for the tip
Updated: BlackBerry C-Series Specs Revealed by Geekbench Report
Update: Long time reader Ofutur has confirmed that this is actually a benchmark of the cancelled C-Series BlackBerry 10 devices With Geekbench natively coming to BlackBerry 10 we now are seeing some unreleased devices showing up in the index. First the high end Ontario O-Series was spotted and now it looks like we have the…
BlackBerry Link For Windows Updated to v1.2.3.22
BlackBerry updated BlackBerry Link for Windows with a small version bump this week. Carl let us know about the new update but sadly we do not have a change log. Check out the latest version here.
BlackBerry Legacy Devices to Get Larger BBM Groups & Emoticons
BlackBerry has confirmed that the BlackBerry Legacy devices running OS 5-7 will get a new BBM update. THat update will sadly not include DropBox integration or location sharing but it will include the other updates. Groups are being bumped up to 50 people per group along with new emoticons. Makes sense and nice that its…
BBM 10.3 for BlackBerry 10 Now Available With Location Sharing & More!
We told you that BBM for BlackBerry 10 was getting an update today to v10.3. That update is now available with location sharing, DropBox integration, and more! Here are the main changes: Faster, easier sharing – quickly add photos, voice notes, files and attachments to your BBM chats from your smartphone or Dropbox account Location…
BlackBerry 10 WebKit Port Removed from WebKit Trunk
BlackBerry made a huge push in late 2012 to upstream all of their awesome work with WebKit in BlackBerry 10 into the WebKit trunk. Now sadly it seems like all of that is reverting. Eli Fidler from BlackBerry has confirmed last month that BlackBerry has not been able to commit the effort needed to actively…