Volkswagen Is Taking Over BlackBerry’s European R&D Center in Bochum
BlackBerry is continuing to right size itself around the world with the latest effort happening in Germany. The Volkswagen group has taken over BlackBerry’s European Research and Development center in Bochum, Germany. This is all part of their new automotive group for interlinking vehicles and other devices. This plays in beautifully with BlackBerry’s new Internet…
Hue Companion Lets You Control Philips Hue Lights from Your BlackBerry
Tony just released another awesome BlackBerry 10 app called Hue Companion. In case you don’t know Philips has some popular Wi-Fi controllable lights that work quite well (Amazon Link). There is no official app for BlackBerry 10 so Tony developed one himself. It also integrates nicely with your Pebble watch if you have Talk2Watch also…
BlackBerry Passport Gets Its Own Pre-Release Review by @Holobandit
We have been getting some awesome insight into the yet to be fully revealed BlackBerry Passport thanks to @Holobandit. He has now graced us all with a pre-release review of the BlackBerry Passport that he posted on CrackBerry. This is definitely one to take with a grain of salt since this is nowhere near final…
BlackBerry Passport Caught on Camera & Video in the Wild
After John Chen showed off the upcoming BlackBerry Passport quite a few of us have wanted to get our hands on one (and better yet without an NDA). Over this weekend @halobandit has been doing just that providing us with a wealth of pictures and information including a few videos that he sent over to…
Amazon Appstore Giving Away $100 of Free Android Apps
In case you did not catch this on AndroidEffect, Amazon is giving away $100 worth of Android apps in their Amazon Appstore. This is the same Appstore that BlackBerry just signed a deal to bring to BlackBerry 10 with OS 10.3. There is no reason you have to wait and you can get in on…
WhatsApp Beta Zone Update Allows for Chat Archiving
WhatsApp is taking full advantage of BlackBerry’s new Beta Zone features for third party developers. They just pushed out a new WhatsApp version focused on bug fixes and improvements with the main improvement being the ability to archive chats. This lets you get conversations out of your list without deleting them. Check out the update…
John Chen Applauds Google for Bolting On Security to Android
Google announced that they are taking one more step to securing the scary Android mobile landscape by leveraging Samsungs KNOX containerization tech. This is similar to BlackBerry Balance for separating business and personal apps on a device and is something BlackBerry has been doing for years. John Chen took to the official BlackBerry Blog to…
BlackBerry Intends to Shame Competition With Fact Check Portal
BlackBerry has really been hammered by competitors recently playing a scare tactics game against the BlackBerry solution. Competitors in the enterprise space have been spreading some pretty blatant lies about BlackBerry trying to paint them into a corner and harass current customers. This has been going on for awhile and BlackBerry has only recently decided…