MLB.com At Bat 14 Drops To $6.99 Until Fathers Day!
MLB is offering a great promotion on their slick MLB.com At Bat 14 app for BlackBerry 10. That is almost $10 off the original price so its a steep discount until Fathers day. There is obviously an incentive here to get this for the fathers in the US but my guess is others will be…
BlackBerry Taking Preorders for Latest Run of Bold 9900 in Canada
In a true flashback move we have BlackBerry opening up preorders for the BlackBerry 9900 in Canada. This is a device that launched a few years back and is being brought back due to continued demand. John Chen has confirmed that BlackBerry plans on the production re-run of the 9900 to be profitable which explains…
John Chen is Considering Phablets in BlackBerry’s Future Plans
With the BlackBerry Z3 still going strong in Indonesia it looks like John Chen is all about turning around the company along with market share. He sat down with the Jakarta Post for an interview and took a few lumps for BlackBerry’s past losses but says he would rather focus on the future of the…
theScore Updates their BlackBerry 10 App – Switches to Android Port
BlackBerry got some bad news from long time rockstar developer theScore. They have updated their BlackBerry 10 app to bring it in line with their Android and iOS app but sadly this is because they converted their slick native BlackBerry 10 app to simply a port of their Android app. This means users lose push…
Behind the Scenes of the Sticker Market with Sean O’Brien
I had a chance to speak to the co-founder of TextPride, Sean O’Brien, this past week about the “Sticker Market” for mobile messaging apps. In case you don’t know mobile messenger “Sticker Packs” have been hugely popular in Asian countries bringing tons of revenue to mobile messaging apps like Line and Kik. Now BlackBerry is…
Jumping Jacks Sticker Pack hits BBM Shop
Those of you looking for a new BBM sticker pack fix we have some good news. Amelie Wentrup Alptun has released a new sticker pack in the BBM Shop called Jumping Jacks. They are nice and expressive which is what you are looking for in a sticker pack. Check it out now in the BBM…
BlackBerry Slams Gartner Magic Quadrant for Enterprise Mobility Management
Gartner took another stab at BlackBerry with the release of their Magic Quadrant for Enterprise Mobility Management. This is a yearly report from them which this year places BlackBerry in the leader space of the “niche” quadrant. This is nowhere near ideal especially since it seems to maintain the misconception that BES 10 is not…
BlackBerry to Announce Q1 Fiscal 2015 Results on June 19
BlackBerry is coming around to their latest fiscal statement and this is going to be a tough one. BlackBerry has to get in front of Wall Street to explain their earnings since March and so far it does not look like it will be pretty. Chen has been stating that he is turning the company…