Laurence Hallier - the designer of the Typo case - told us in an interview at CES that they had been working on this design for more than 18 months and made sure several times that they were not violating Blackberry’s patents. Nevertheless, on 24 January 2014, BlackBerry filed a motion to block the sale and production of Typo Cases.
LG is apparently looking to capitalize on the fact that Blackberry, the one time king of the enterprise space, continues to bleed customers. In a move that was praised by Blackberry, LG announced that several of their smartphones will feature Blackberry's proprietary BBM (Blackberry Messenger) service. The service was widely adapted by Blackberry users in [...]
BlackBerry has been the leader in the enterprise space for some time now, but with the troubled waters and the uncertain future it seems as though some businesses are exploring their options in other companies. According to some analysts the iPad has been able to penetrate even further into enterprises with very little effort recently. [...]
While BlackBerry may not be selling smartphones like they used to they are still doing well with their messaging platform, BlackBerry Messenger or BBM. Recently BlackBerry released BBM on Android and iOS, and the response was overwhelming. Despite some issues getting the app to market it appears as though it was worth the wait, and [...]
Unfortunately this headline is not uncommon. Blackberry continues to go through changes. As we reported earlier this month, Blackberry's "innovative" CEO Thorstein Heins is out after the latest failed attempt for the company to sell itself. In his place, Fairfax, Blackberry's biggest investor, has installed former CEO of Sybase, John Chen in his place. Now [...]
It's been a long spiral downward ride for the people at Waterloo Canada based Blackberry. Some of us are old enough to remember when Blackberry was just as relevant, if not more relevant than the iPhone. Blackberry began the email on the go movement that we take as second nature now. Starting off as an [...]
