Read an excerpt from the forthcoming book “Losing the Signal” on RIM’s efforts to take on Apple’s game-changing iPhone.

It’s a little after 5:30 p.m. on a Wednesday night, and I’m sitting in a freezing rental car outside the BlackBerry headquarters in Waterloo, Ontario, looking for signs of life. Five years and several billion dollars ago, these buildings would have been full, and the windows would have been dotted with busy silhouettes. But today, it’s a ghost town.

Smartphone company Samsung has recently approached BlackBerry Ltd to buy the company for as much as US$7.5 billion, looking to gain access to its patent portfolio, according to a person familiar with...

BlackBerry is working with Boeing on Boeing’s high-security Android-based smartphone, the Canadian mobile technology company’s chief executive said on Friday. The Boeing Black phone being developed by the Chicago-based aerospace and defense contractor, which is best known for jetliners and fighter planes, can self-destruct if it is tampered with. The Boeing Black device encrypts calls and is aimed at government agencies and others that need to keep communications and data secure.

BlackBerry will launch its much-anticipated Classic smartphone at an event in New York on Wednesday. Chief executive officer John Chen will unveil the new phone at Cipriana, an Italian restaurant in New York's financial district. The Classic will run on the BlackBerry 10 operating system, but it brings back features that made the company's older Bold phone one of its most popular devices.

Samsung and BlackBerry announced a new security-focused partnership Thursday that will bring BlackBerry's encryption system to Samsung's business users.

Two days after the BlackBerry Passport launched, the business oriented handset was sold out. The number of units sold was 200,000 as BlackBerry played things conservatively in the face of the recent launch of both the Apple iPhone 6 and Apple iPhone 6 Plus.

BlackBerry's plans to unveil a square-screened smartphone are further emphasising CEO John Chen's shift away from the consumer market toward business and professional users.

For the past couple of months now there have been rumors about a new BlackBerry Blend feature that will supposedly make its debut with BB OS 10.3. Rumor has it that the BlackBerry OS 10.3 gold candidate release is only a few days away which would then be followed by the public release of this new software. Blend is said to be one of the new features included in this update and now some of its screenshots have surfaced online, giving us a hint of what it aims to achieve.

BlackBerry is trying to build up some steam for its upcoming BlackBerry OS 10.3 launch, and for its new BlackBerry Passport hardware, and today that means a new feature reveal: The company detailed BlackBerry Assistant on its official blog today, and the feature looks unsurprisingly like Siri and Cortana for iOS and Windows Phone respectively.

The company plans to bring back one of its popular phones from 2011 as it struggles to turn around

Since becoming president and chief executive of BlackBerry in November, John S. Chen has revamped the company’s executive ranks, accelerated layoffs, farmed out some phone development, cut costs and sold real estate. Now he is turning his attention to the troubled company’s future, and it is one in which its once-popular smartphones will play a much less important role.

Court documents show that Sebastian Marineau-Mes wanted to join Apple in March as head of Core OS team, but has been put on 'vacation pay' until June

BlackBerry may be in a world of hurt, but for now it still has one loyal and very famous customer: President Obama.

Ford Motor Co., struggling with in-car technology glitches, will base the next-generation Sync system on BlackBerry Ltd.'s QNX and no longer use Microsoft Corp.'s Windows, according to people briefed on the matter.

The best feature that an instant messaging app can have is all of your friends using its service. The second best, arguably, is stickers. Taking advantage of the surprising popularity of these oversized emoticons, BlackBerry is beginning to add stickers into BBM. Sticker packs with names like "CosCat," "Gilbert’s Tales," and "Bubble Bot" will be sold directly within the app and contain around 20 to 25 images apiece.

BlackBerry has reportedly announced that the head of its BBM business, Andrew Bocking, was leaving the company. Bocking, executive vice president of BlackBerry and head of the messenger service, is the latest amongst high-profile executives to leave the sinking smartphone manufacturer.

BlackBerry has become the Bluto Blutarsky of the American smartphone market because, as Dean Wormer once said to Bluto, its market share is now “zero… point… zero.” Consumer Intelligence Research Partners on Thursday came out with its latest numbers on mobile market share in the United States and found that BlackBerry devices accounted for 0% of all smartphone activations in the fourth quarter of 2013

Last week, a press release from the Department of Defense announced the launch of a new mobile network within the agency that will utilize unclassified mobile devices such as smartphones, tablets, and other consumer-level electronics. According to the DOD, this network will support 100,000 deployed devices by the end of the year. Within the press release announcing the network, the DOD revealed that it already supports quite a few mobile devices, including 80,000 BlackBerry smartphones.

Brand new BlackBerry CEO John Chen has written a letter detailing BlackBerry's strength and strategy for CNBC, and it was was published earlier Monday morning. It contains humorous lies and is an o...