Amazon BBM Channels Spotted in the Wild!
It looks like Amazon will be adding a new element to their partnership bringing the Amazon App Store to BlackBerry 10.3. Tony let me know (via ZachMeC) that Amazon has launched some brand new BBM channels for the US, UK, and Canada to highlight deals. They don’t specify if these will be app deals or…
Germany’s Federal Ministry Gives BlackBerry a Solid Recommendation
Germany has been moving rapidly towards BlackBerry 10 devices due to the NSA revelations in the last year or so. BlackBerry even pushed out OS 10.2 just to get Secusmart phone call encryption software support on BlackBerry 10 with thousands of devices ordered. Sadly they have not revealed the number of devices they have deployed…
BlackBerry Beta Zone Gets New "Pre-Release BlackBerry Products" Program
BlackBerry seems to be putting some big efforts into the Beta Zone recently. Their latest efforts seem to be targeted on a beta for pre-release BlackBerry products. Its only going out to a select few but those lucky ones are getting something along these lines (Thanks Bla1ze): We’re excited to announce that in the near…
John Chen Confirms That There Are No Active Offers for BlackBerry
When John Chen took the reins at BlackBerry one of the first things he did was take the company off the selling block. Now in an interview with Bloomberg he confirmed that there are no offers on his desk to buy BlackBerry. He went on to say that “I don’t have any offers on…
Tim Neil Leaves BlackBerry – Still Working on BatBerry!
BlackBerry took another loss this week with Tim Neil leaving today. Those of you who have developed anything with WebWorks or HTML5 on BlackBerry 10 are probably very aware of Tim’s contributions to the platform. He was behind the BBUI.js framework along with quite a large portion of the WebWorks functionality. He has also been…
BlackBerry Confirms White BlackBerry Passport With Official Picture
It looks like that white BlackBerry Passport picture that hit the internet earlier in the week was legit. Donny @BlackBerry stepped in an decided to set the record straight with another real white BlackBerry Passport picture. We have heard from a few people who have used the device and they are loving the feel in your…
Colombia’s International Organization for Migration Upgrades to BES 10
BlackBerry has another enterprise score in South America this week. They got Colombia’s International Organization for Migration Upgraded to BlackBerry Enterprise Service 10. That makes OIM Columbia the first of the 155 OIM organization to upgrade to BES10 and hopefully will be the first of many in the multiplatform solution. Here is what they had…
BlackBerry World Vendor Portal Gets Major Overhaul With Promo Codes!!!
BlackBerry is on a mission to make BlackBerry World suck less for developers. In that vein they have updated the vendor portal to FINALLY make developers lives easier with a new UI along with things as simple as being able to change license type. This is all focused around user experience for developers and really…