CEO John Chen Would Consider Selling BlackBerry Handset Business
It seems like the media loves hanging on every statement BlackBerry CEO, John Chen, makes about the companies handset business. The latest is Reuters who caught Chen saying that he would consider selling the phone unit if it no longer made sense. That makes logical sense especially when he straight out says that "If I…
BlackBerry Hosting Local “Experience” Events Targeting Enterprise Customers
BlackBerry has kicked off their new strategy of heading to customers instead of having one large conference once a year. They started this week with a BlackBerry Experience event in Paris and have another one planned for NYC tomorrow (April 10th). I am not sure if you can still register but hop on it if…
BlackBerry Enterprise Server 5.0.4 MR7 Coming Shortly
It looks like BlackBerry is pushing out BES 5.0.4 Maintenance Release 7 shortly. My buddy Piotr noticed the new maintenance release notes show up for the version for Exchange, Groupwise, and Domino. The change log includes: Updates to BlackBerry Enterprise Server 5.0 SP4 MR7 include installation of JRE version 1.7, update 51 and JBoss Enterprise…
Buffer Overflow Vulnerability Discovered in BlackBerry OS 10.1 Developer Mode
It looks like BlackBerry had even more reasons for users to update to OS 10.2+. They were notified back in June if of last year about a buffet overflow vulnerability in devices that turn on developer mode. The overflow is in a process that runs as root so it could lead to rooting the device….
BlackBerry Kopi Again Caught On Camera Together with a Q5
The rumored and supposedly canceled QWERTY BlackBerry Kopi is strutting it’s stuff on camera again. This time it was caught with the BlackBerry Q5 for comparison. Not much to see here beyond another prototype but still fun to see. Kudos to BerryFlow for the find!
Latest Texting While Driving Ad Hopes To Scare People Straight
If you or anyone you know is still crazy enough to try and text while driving this latest video from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration should scare you straight. (via Mashable) The ad takes you from a few teens harmlessly chatting in a car until that car gets sidelined. There was actually a…
BlackBerry Plans On Building a “Trusted Consultancy” in Australasia
BlackBerry’s Managing Director in Australia and New Zealand, Matthew Ball, explained a little of the companies strategy going forward under his direction. In an interview with SMH, Matthew explained that BlackBerry is moving to capitalize on being a “trusted consultancy” for security and mobile device management. In a nutshell he sums it up by saying:…
Sprint Finally Releases BlackBerry OS 10.2.1 – Beats AT&T
Sprint and AT&T were tied in a race to be dead last to release OS 10.2.1 for BlackBerry 10 devices. Even the troubled T-Mobile has managed to release OS 10.2.1. Now we are finally hearing from multiple Sprint customers that they are getting update notifications. This is a almost a month after Verizon and T-Mobile…