BlackBerry Announces Completion of $1 Billion Investment from Fairfax Financial Consortium
Today BlackBerry announced that they have officially reached the completion of the $1 billion dollar investment from the Fairfax Financial consortium and other institutional investors. The investors have the option to purchase another $250 million principal amount of additional debentures within 30 days. This is what the new CEO John Chen had to say about…
John S. Chen, BlackBerry’s CEO, Writes an Open Message to the BlackBerry Community
John Chen has been CEO for only a short while and he is already getting in front of his messaging. He wrote an open message to all detailing BlackBerrys commitment to reclaiming their success. Its a great read and gives you an idea of where he is planning on driving the company: To our…
BlackBerry Sends Out Invites to Porsche Design P’9982 Launch Party
We have seen quite a bit of the Porsche Design BlackBerry P’9982 recently so a launch is in order. The device is not even official yet but Abbas over @Tbreak let us know that BlackBerry has started sending out invites to a launch event scheduled for November 24th. The P’9981 model did well for BlackBerry…
Three Key German Enterprises Migrate to BlackBerry Enterprise Service 10
BlackBerry just announced that three of their key German based enterprise customers just made the switch to BlackBerry Enterprise Services 10. BlackBerry has been doing well in Germany on the heels of these NSA snooping leaks. Now Mitsubishi Motors Deutschland, sugar producer Südzucker AG, and manufacturing giant Grohe AG have all installed BES for…
Updated: BlackBerry 10.2.1 Leak Points To Flickr, SkyDrive, & SmugMug Connectors Coming Soon
While digging through the latest OS 10.2.1.1055 leak we keep on finding some goodies. Ofutur pointed out to me that there are signs of BlackBerry working on new cloud connectors for SmugMug, SkyDrive, and Flickr. These will be like the current Box.net and DropBox connectors from what I understand. No word on when we will…
Selenium WebDriver Support Shows Up in OS 10.2.1 Leak for Web Developers
BlackBerry keeps on pushing more dev tools into the BlackBerry 10 browser. The latest addition spotted in the browser is the inclusion of the Selenium WebDriver. Selenium is used by developers and others to automate browsers. This lets you automate regression or other testing in a browser by sending the commands to the device. This…
Google Play Store Whitelisted In New OS 10.2.1 Leak as BlackBerry Denies Plans
This OS 10.2.1 leak is just full of changes. Some of you may know that BlackBerry has long been blacklisting certain Android application files that are required for certain Android apps to run. The most frustrating are the Google Play Store app and the Google Play Services. MoneyToo over at CrackBerry forums found that the…
Security Vulnerability Fixed in Latest BlackBerry Link Software for Windows & Mac
BlackBerry just pushed out new versions of BlackBerry Link for Windows and Mac. The update coincides with a new security vulnerability published by BlackBerry that has a remote possibility of being exploited. It was interesting to learn that the remote access from your BlackBerry 10 device to your desktop using Blackberry Link works over the…