BlackBerry

BlackBerry 10 has been out in the wild for almost a month, and on Friday, early adopters will begin receiving the first update to the new platform: version 10.0.10.85. Battery performance has been addressed, and over 60 “optimizations” should help lengthen the time between charges. Other changes of note are the “improved performance” of third-party Continue Reading →

Shelly Palmer talks about Bitstamp’s recent hack, the future of Bitcoin and Alibab’s potential expansion on CNNi’s World Business Today. Continue Reading →

Mobile is “the” story of 2013. This year, the industry will ship five billion mobile chipsets. By 2015, there will be three billion people connected to the Internet and, according to Cisco, over 15 billion connected devices. What does it all mean? Come with me to Mobile World Congress (MWC) in Barcelona from February 25-28 Continue Reading →

Shelly Palmer Chats with Jim Blasingame on the Small Business Advocate Show. The two discuss the advantages of the Windows 8 operating system, what it means for Dell to go private (and what it means that Microsoft helped them to do so), and also how BlackBerry 10 stacks up to the competitors. Listen now through Continue Reading →

Here’s a few things I need to tell you about BlackBerry’s Z10. You cannot launch a Soyuz rocket from it. You cannot use it to make scrambled eggs with truffle oil. You cannot cut your hair with it. You cannot milk a cow with it. Nor can you milk a rhinoceros with it. You cannot Continue Reading →

When BlackBerry announced that more than 70,000 BlackBerry 10 applications would be available when its new platform launched, users were ecstatic. That big number was too good to be true, unfortunately, as we and many others noticed in our time spent with the BlackBerry Z10. While the app store includes some big names such as Continue Reading →

After being seemingly knocked down for the count, Research in Motion – now re-branded as BlackBerry – re-vitalized its brand on Wednesday with the launch of BlackBerry 10. The company launched two new smartphones. The Q10 is keyboard-equipped, keeping it true to the essence of what BlackBerry has been. But it also features a 3.1” Continue Reading →

There was a time when owning a smartphone meant you owned a BlackBerry. For those with high-speed jobs who needed to stay connected on the go, owning a BlackBerry meant owning the best in production on the go. After Apple and Google rode into town and began dominating the market with iPhones and Androids, BlackBerries Continue Reading →

Research In Motion’s BlackBerry 10 application marketplace will have thousands of more programs, thanks to two events the company ran over the weekend. The events saw RIM net 15,000 app submissions for BlackBerry 10 within a period of 37.5 hours, according to company vice president of developer relations Alec Saunders. The events were called Portathons, Continue Reading →

After a long period of negative headlines in the run up to the end of last year, beleaguered BlackBerry maker RIM seemed to have turned a corner, with signs that positive momentum was returning. Early previews of its BlackBerry 10 platform were largely positive, with a view that the company is set to deliver a Continue Reading →