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Pentagon Preparing for the End of the Blackberry Era
DOD's once-favorite mobile device is in dire financial straits. Here's what happens if Blackberry goes the way of Betamax.
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BlackBerry launching $2,400 phone
BlackBerry has been having a hard time selling its new Z10 phones, but now it plans on releasing a phone that will sell for $2,400.
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Blackberry Kicks off 25 Days of Free stuff from Blackberry World - The Next SEO
Blackberry is Kicking off the season with a 25 Days of Gifts giveaway from BlackBerry World! From December 1st to December 25th, BlackBerry 10 users can visit BlackBerry World each day and be treated to a free premium download. Every day, for 25 days, you’ll get a premium selection of apps, movies and games – …
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BlackBerry loses $4.4 billion on unsold phones, declining asset value
BlackBerry today reported a Q3 2014 operating loss of $4.4 billion, up from $965 million in the previous quarter, primarily due to one-time charges related to unsold smartphones and the decline in value of the company's assets. Smartphone maker teams with Foxconn to stop the bleeding.
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Why BlackBerry Stock Is Soaring After a $4.4 Billion Net Loss
BlackBerry posted a whopping $4.4 billion net loss, much worse than had been expected. Wall Street responded by sending the stock up more than 15%.
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Inside the fall of BlackBerry: How the smartphone inventor failed to adapt
Late last year, Research In Motion Ltd. chief executive officer Thorsten Heins sat down with the board of directors at the company’s Waterloo, Ont., headquarters to review plans for the launch of a new phone designed to turn around the company’s fortunes.
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BlackBerry co-founder Lazaridis dumps 3.5 million shares
BlackBerry co-founder Mike Lazaridis had so much faith in the company he helped rise to greatness — which, coincidentally, is also the company he helped destroy — that he considered a bid to purchase the struggling vendor earlier this year.
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BlackBerry CEO’s open letter is just a sad attempt to spin the company's downward spiral
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...
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Pentagon says 'absolutely no new orders have been placed' for BlackBerry phones
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.
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On BlackBerry 10's 1st anniversary, BlackBerry's U.S. market share hits 0%
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
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BBM chief latest to quit BlackBerry
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.
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Not using BBM? BlackBerry hopes that stickers will make you start
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.
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Ford expected to drop Microsoft, use BlackBerry QNX in next-gen Sync
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.
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No Android for Obama yet, sticking with BlackBerry
BlackBerry may be in a world of hurt, but for now it still has one loyal and very famous customer: President Obama.
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BlackBerry sues own software chief to stop him leaving for Apple
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
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BlackBerry Sees Hope For Future In Security
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.
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BlackBerry looks to the past to define its future
The company plans to bring back one of its popular phones from 2011 as it struggles to turn around
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BlackBerry Gets Its Own Siri With BlackBerry Assistant
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.
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BlackBerry Blend Screenshots Leaked
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.
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BlackBerry's 'bizarre' square Passport smartphone feeds shift to business
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.
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