BlackBerry Pushing BBM Protected With 30-Day Free Trial & Possible $30/year User Subscription
We are getting more of a taste for BlackBerry’s plans for BBM Protected and I am liking what I see. Zek let us know that BlackBerry is pitching a 30 day free trial to customers on BES 5 and BES 10 to try out the new platform between now and October 31st. The whole program…
7Digital and BlackBerry Are Launching a New Music Service
It feels like just yesterday that BlackBerry announced it was shutting down their music and video sections in BlackBerry World together with their tie in with Amazon. Now it looks like BlackBerry has even more going on behind the scenes according to the Guardian. They are following through with Chen’s plan to build on partnerships…
Information Disclosure Vulnerability Patched for BES 10 and BES 5.0.4
A vulnerability exists in the implementation of the logging of exceptions encountered during user or session management in affected BES10 and BES5 versions. During rare cases of an exception, certain credentials are logged in an encoded form or in plain text. For BlackBerry Enterprise Server 5, these credentials include shared secrets that are used between…
BlackBerry Z30 Wins Best of Biz Gold Award from Press & Analyst Panel
The BlackBerry Z30 just put another solid notch on its award belt by winning the consumer product of the year category in the Best in Biz Awards 2014 which is judged by press and industry analysts. This year it includes a panel of 27 judges from the likes of: Asian Power (Singapore), Australian (Australia), Canadian…
BlackBerry 10 Wi-Fi File Sharing Vulnerable to Password Bypass
It looks like Modzero has helped BlackBerry discover a vulnerability in the way BlackBerry 10 implements file sharing over Wi-Fi. This vulnerability allows attackers on the same Wi-Fi network to possibly access shared files on your device even if you have a password setup for sharing. So far this vulnerability is not being exploited in…
BlackBerry Steals Away Jeffrey Ait From Good Technologies
It looks like Good Technology is losing once again to BlackBerry in the form of executive, Jeffrey Ait, coming over to BlackBerry. CrackBerry noticed that Ait is moving from his Public Sector focused role at Good to come to BlackBerry as VP and head of US Public Sector. He has tight connections with federal, state,…
BBM Updated for BlackBerry 10
With all the BBM updates today it looks like BlackBerry has gotten around to actually releasing an update for BlackBerry 10. The new update brings you to v10.3 of BBM which includes some of the fixes and improvements we saw in the beta zone. Nothing crazy here but still nice improvements overall with things like…
BBM Protected now available for Balance enabled devices
Today BlackBerry started phase 2 of the BBM Protected roll out, adding support for BlackBerry devices using Balance technology. This step allows BBM Protected to work in BYOD, Balance, and COPE (Corporate Owned, Personally Enabled) environments as well as COBO (Corporate Owned, Business Only). Just as before, enabling BBM Protected for Balance enabled devices is…