Next BlackBerry Jam Direct Virtual Conference Will Focus on Android Runtime
As I predicted BlackBerry is going the virtual route for their upcoming BlackBerry Jam conference after cancelling BlackBerry Jam Europe. They announced the upcoming December 4th virtual conference will focus on Android and the BlackBerry Runtime for Android in OS 10.2.1. The event is intended to cover these “highly requested features” by developers including: Android…
BBM Channels Coming Out of Beta Today for BlackBerry 10 & Legacy Devices (3PM EST)
BlackBerry let us know today that BBM Channels is coming out of beta for BlackBerry 10 and legacy BlackBerry 5.0+ devices. This functionality has been available in the Beta Zone for quite awhile now but it should be in BlackBerry World today. BlackBerry also confirmed it will come to Android and iOS in coming…
BlackBerry Gets Multiple Android OEMs to Preinstall BBM on Smartphones
BlackBerry announced this morning that they managed to win over quite a few smaller Android OEMs that are big players in emerging markets. Android is flooding these emerging markets where BlackBerry used to lead so this is a good move for BlackBerry to keep users hooked. Currently they have leading OEMs across Africa, India,…
Buy This! BlackBerry Premium 1.8A Charger as Low as $3.99 Shipped on Amazon
In case you don’t know the BlackBerry Premium Charger for the PlayBook is the BEST BlackBerry charger out there. We have covered it many times before and it will charge your BlackBerry 10 device MORE THAN TWICE as fast as your stock charger. The regular BlackBerry 10 charger only pushes out 750mAh or 800mAh…
iGrann Native BlackBerry 10 Instagram Client Releases Third Public Beta
iGrann is an interesting new native Instagram client for BlackBerry 10. The app just got an update to its public beta for those of you who are sideloading the release. This new version brings loads of fixes and improvements. Check out the change log below or find the latest release to sideload at this link….
Yankee Group Lays Out the "Realities of Smartphone Market Share" for BlackBerry in Business
BlackBerry had Carl Howe, Vice President of Yankee Group’s Consumer Research group, in to write a guest post on the “Realities of Smartphone Market Share” this weekend. Howe makes some great points in article on the realities of the current market share. You hear numbers thrown around like Android having 80% market share…
BlackBerry Announcing Third Quarter Fiscal 2014 Results on Friday December 20th, 2013
BlackBerry released the date for their fiscal announcements right before the weekend. Sorry for the delay on this one but the holidays are upon us! Either way the announcements will happen on December 20th so expect quite a few tidbits of news leading up to then during their "quiet period." Details below: BlackBerry to Announce…
BlackBerry Shakes Up Their Board – Replaces CFO & Removes CMO & COO
John Chen has made his mark on BlackBerry again today. He has immediately fired the CMO Frank Boulben and COO Kristian Tear that former CEO Thorsten Heins just hired. He has also replaced CFO Brian Bidulka with James Yersh though Bidulka will remain as a special advisor until the end of the year. This is…