Don’t try adding Jamal Crawford to the group text. The NBA star and Seattle basketball legend admitted Thursday night that he’s still rocking a Blackberry phone, much to the giggling… Read More
A new partnership aims to pair Microsoft’s cloud and productivity tools with BlackBerry’s security software for customers that require extra levels of privacy, above and beyond that of the normal… Read More
Corporate America and the U.S. Senate may have fallen out of love with the BlackBerry, but as its maker tries to resurrect its handset business, Microsoft still wants to be friends. Blackberry… Read More
On this Independence Day, the U.S. Senate is getting a little smartphone independence. U.S. Senators and staff were informed in a memo last week that production of BlackBerry 10 devices has been… Read More
T-Mobile has buried the hatchet with BlackBerry after a feud between the two companies that lasted more than a year. The Bellevue-based carrier announced today that its customers will be… Read More
Apple has begun offering store credit to people who trade in their phones when switching to an iPhone. The company quietly changed its retail store information pages to say that… Read More
Say you love your BlackBerry, but the same-old isn’t cutting it for you anymore? Then you need to see this limited-edition, black-and-gold BlackBerry Passport. Only 50 have been made, according to… Read More
BlackBerry has come out swinging against rumors that Samsung wants to acquire it. The company issued a statement today, saying that it “has not engaged in discussions with Samsung with… Read More
Chalk this up as one of the stranger corporate announcements this week, delivered by BlackBerry CEO John Chen on the company’s earnings conference call. “We are pleased to announce that… Read More
Ford has updated its Sync in-dash infotainment platform, and that’s bad news for Microsoft. The auto maker announced today that it has picked BlackBerry’s QNX technology as the base for its… Read More
Watching BlackBerry’s share of smartphone subscribers in the U.S. has been like watching a very slowly deflating balloon. It seems like the air may have stopped escaping from the company’s… Read More
With the unveiling of its first phone in two years, BlackBerry has also kicked off a partnership with Amazon that promises to preload the Seattle company’s app store on its devices to offer users… Read More
All eyes are on Amazon.com today and its planned announcement of a new smartphone. But before that much-hyped gadget arrives, here’s some news from one of the earliest innovators in… Read More
comScore is out with its latest monthly U.S. smartphone market share stats, and Android continues to stay ahead of the pack while Blackberry is slowly going bye-bye. Google’s Android platform saw… Read More
Microsoft Windows Phone devices are responsible for mobile web traffic than BlackBerry smartphones in North America, according to a new report from Chitika. As a proxy for mobile engagement and usage, the stat is more unfortunate news… Read More
After the buying extravaganza that took place over the holidays, the U.S. smartphone market has largely reached a quiet equilibrium while customers waited for manufacturers to release new phones. According to… Read More
BlackBerry CEO John Chen started a fight it seems like he couldn’t finish when he attacked T-Mobile for marketing the new iPhone to BlackBerry users. After Chen called a marketing… Read More
Is Microsoft’s relationship with Ford fraying? That’s one way to read a report from Bloomberg today which notes that the Ford is planning to dump Microsoft in favor of BlackBerry… Read More
It seems like BlackBerry CEO John Chen may have started a fight he wasn’t ready for. Yesterday, Chen took to his company’s blog to discuss how outraged he was with… Read More
T-Mobile touched off a firestorm among faithful BlackBerry users when it sent an email letting them know that they could trade in their old handset for a brand new iPhone 5S… Read More
Several BlackBerry users were up in arms over a recent email blast from T-Mobile that encouraged them to “upgrade” to an iPhone 5. Now, T-Mobile CEO John Legere is letting… Read More
ContentGuard, a subsidiary of Bellevue-based patent holding firm Pendrell Corporation, announced today that it has filed a massive patent infringement lawsuit against Amazon, Apple, BlackBerry, Huawei and Google-owned Motorola Mobility.… Read More
—TV host Katie Couric plans to join Yahoo as “global anchor,” the latest key media hire for CEO Marissa Mayer. She plans to join the Internet company some time next… Read More
There are four big decisions that can happen in a startup, says T.A. McCann: When to start the company, when to fund it, when to kill it, and when to… Read More
Struggling mobile phone maker BlackBerry received another dose of bad news today as the company said that it was no longer pursuing acquisition offers, and would instead raise up to… Read More
As a play to improve the company’s relevance as consumers flee from its handsets, BlackBerry announced earlier this year that it would be bringing its BlackBerry Messenger (BBM) service to… Read More
Boeing is telling employees that it’s sticking with BlackBerry as its “standard mobile platform” after receiving assurances from BlackBerry executives about the smartphone maker’s dedication to providing a “secure, private… Read More
While analysts brawl over what Apple’s record-setting sales figures for the iPhone 5S and 5C mean, market share figures released today by comScore show that Apple has already made gains… Read More
Struggling BlackBerry got another piece of bad news this week when T-Mobile USA — the country’s fourth largest wireless carrier — said that it will stop carrying BlackBerry devices at… Read More
Ailing smartphone maker BlackBerry has finally found a buyer. Fairfax Financial Holdings, which has a 10 percent stake in BlackBerry, will lead a consortium that plans to buy back shares… Read More