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BlackBerry sues Seacrest’s Typo over iPhone case

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BlackBerry cancel two phones planned for 2014

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BlackBerry cancel two phones planned for 2014

BlackBerry Z30 Hold onto that BlackBerry Z30 while you can, BlackBerry fans: It might be the last device designed in Waterloo target...

Co-founder officially drops bid for BlackBerry

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Mike Lazaridis, a BlackBerry co-founder and former co-CEO, has officially ditched his plans to acquire the company through a joint bid with a fellow co-founder.</div>
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In dissolving the plan, Lazaridis' stake in the sagging company is now 4.99 percent.</div>
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Lazaridis made his decision public in a Securities and Exchange Commission filing on Tuesday. Under the now-defunct plan, which was announced in October, Lazaridis and fellow co-founder Douglas Fregin had combined stakes to reach 8 percent total ownership and said they were considering a purchase of the company. Last month, however, BlackBerry took itself off the market, and new management is trying to turn the company around.</div>
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This year has been an especially hard one for BlackBerry. After lagging further and further behind the competition, the company placed its last-ditch hopes on two new smartphones, both of which failed to save the company. BlackBerry lost $4.4 billion in the most recent quarter.</div>
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Co-founder officially drops bid for BlackBerry

Mike Lazaridis (Credit: James Martin/CNET) Mike Lazaridis, a BlackBerry co-founder and former co-CEO, has officially ditched his plans ...

BlackBerry deal bolsters Foxconn's makeover gambit

Unknown 0 Blackberry, Mobile, News 5:44 AM

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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The agreement to design and market phones starting in Indonesia, the world's fourth-most populous country but an under-penetrated market, is a boon to a mega-manufacturer trying to grow its margins while making a play for a bigger slice of the global mobile devices market.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Best known for putting together iPhones, Foxconn honed its skills by meeting Apple Inc's (NSQ:AAPL) exacting standards and supply chain rigour. It boasts a workforce of more than 1 million and the scale to negotiate cheaper component prices than BlackBerry could obtain on its own.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">BlackBerry announced on Friday that Foxconn will help design the hardware for its future low-end devices as part of a 5-year deal, furthering the template for manufacturing specialists to scale the value chain. BlackBerry itself will remain focused on software technology.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The Canadian firm wants to produce many of the new phones in Indonesia - the first new model is code-named "Jakarta" - where Foxconn has been navigating bureaucracy for over a year to set up a manufacturing plant in Southeast Asia's biggest economy.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Foxconn - the trading name of Hon Hai Precision Industry (TAI:2317) - expects an agreement with local authorities in February, and plans to set up joint ventures with local private firms to tap the potentially vast Southeastern Asian market. While it waits to set up production facilities in Indonesia, Foxconn will make BlackBerry phones at its Chinese factories.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Indonesian government officials have said Hon Hai wants to gradually invest as much as $10 billion over 5 years with local partner Erajaya Swasembada (ERAA.JK), and Indonesia will offer the Taiwanese firm a tax package aimed at kickstarting the plan.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">"BlackBerry wanted to develop new products in Indonesia, while we're also tapping the local market there. They saw our ambition, so we started talking," said Foxconn spokesman Simon Hsing. "The partnership gives us mutual benefits to explore existing and new emerging markets together."</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">"TOTAL SOLUTIONS"</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The first Foxconn-built BlackBerry - a low-cost 3G model based on BlackBerry 10 software and targeting Indonesia - could be rolled out by April.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">"A strategic partnership with BlackBerry is a recognition of Foxconn's capability and new business model as an IIDM (Innovative Integrated Design Manufacturer) as our chairman Terry Gou calls it," said Foxconn's Hsing. "We're no longer just a contract maker; we provide total solutions - from design, manufacturing, component supply to logistic management."</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Hon Hai has become the world's largest electronics manufacturer after years of helping Apple and other tech giants put together their gadgets. That experience means it brings a number of advantages to the table.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">As Apple's largest supplier, Foxconn has undergone years of manufacturing to the Cupertino company's high standards. Its unmatched scale should allow it to buy components more cheaply, BlackBerry says. And Gou has made no secret of his ambitions to usher Foxconn into the increasingly crowded smartphone space, boosting margins as a result.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Foxconn has also extended its business this year to provide devices and applications that build on Mozilla's Firefox operating system.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">But in recent years, the rapid rise of rivals like Pegatron Corp (TAI:4938) and increasingly tough demands from clients as competition intensifies may have put pressure on margins. Worker-rights advocates and major customers like Apple are also demanding Foxconn and other contract manufacturers improve wages and working conditions following a series of high-profile suicides and reports about untenable labour conditions at Chinese factories.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">"Margins under this partnership with BlackBerry will definitely be higher," said Arthur Liao, a Taipei-based analyst at Fubon Securities. "The most profitable bit will come from component sales and after-service, which includes inventory management and component repairs," he said, adding that margins from after-service are usually above 15 percent, three times those on pure manufacturing.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">FIH Mobile Ltd , Hon Hai's handset making arm for non-Apple brands, will be the unit that collaborates with BlackBerry. The Hong Kong-listed company returned to a small profit in January-June after losing US$226 million in the same year-earlier period as orders fell from clients such as Nokia Oyj (HEX:NOK1V). Current FIH clients include Sony Corp and HTC Corp (TAI:2498).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">According to Fubon's Liao, FIH made around 50 million phones this year while Wistron Corp (TAI:3231), BlackBerry's contract maker, shipped around 20 million BlackBerries.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Shares in FIH, which on Monday forecast a net profit for the full year, have gained 9.4 percent to a 2-week high since the BlackBerry deal was announced.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">GLOBAL FACILITY EXPANSION</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">BlackBerry's decision to produce the devices in Indonesia and Mexico is a pay-off for Foxconn's huge investment in those two markets. Foxconn has shifted part of its expanding production facilities to Mexico since 2009 as this is close to its major customer, Apple.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It's unclear how far the BlackBerry brand travels beyond less-lucrative emerging markets.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Starting at the low-end means taking on Xiaomi and other emerging brands that excel at cut-rate smartphones, a potentially margin-eroding and debilitating battle.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The rise of Chinese gadget makers has already dented Apple's and Samsung's market share in China and other developing countries, and Xiaomi has said it will now focus on Southeast Asia - precisely where Foxconn and BlackBerry mean to kick off their partnership.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">To be sure, that's where the BlackBerry brand remains strong. While it has fallen out of favour in Western markets, it still has a cachet and name recognition in Asia, particularly in Indonesia and other promising markets like India.<br /><i><br /></i></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Via: <a href="http://news.yahoo.com/blackberry-deal-bolsters-foxconns-makeover-021443673.html">Yahoo News</a></span></i></div>

BlackBerry deal bolsters Foxconn's makeover gambit

A Blackberry logo is seen at the Blackberry campus in Waterloo, September 23, 2013. REUTERS/Mark Blinch/FILES The agreement to design a...

BlackBerry may have to shrink its way to success

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<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiJHxGv-8A-1fwJ5CtidBMrFzkU0Jl0qFJyE7qbeLWurFzJD1aXINB1M9ZncOR62B7e6NFMJymozW8LJopg0MGfZMY2xeyt5Igl8L0oAk5KWtd3x9_NutnGXwmnAuOaxF3a54Dk986Mi10/s1600/blackberry-q10-3.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" /></span></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">BlackBerry</span></td></tr></tbody></table><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiJHxGv-8A-1fwJ5CtidBMrFzkU0Jl0qFJyE7qbeLWurFzJD1aXINB1M9ZncOR62B7e6NFMJymozW8LJopg0MGfZMY2xeyt5Igl8L0oAk5KWtd3x9_NutnGXwmnAuOaxF3a54Dk986Mi10/s1600/blackberry-q10-3.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"></span></a></div><div style="background-color: white; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“The last time device shipments and revenues were at current levels (way back in 2007) cost of sales and overall operating expenses were a fraction of what they are now,” Dawson writes. “Even cutting operating expenses by 50% by 2015 won’t be enough at this rate. The company has to find other sources of revenue, and it simply hasn’t shown what those are.”</span></div><div style="background-color: white; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Dawson thinks that new CEO Chen has no time to waste in articulating his strategy for moving BlackBerry forward and that the company’s scheduled December 20th earnings report is absolutely crucial. At that time, Chen will need to spell out exactly how he plans to either revive the company’s flagging device sales or put it out of its misery while also spelling out just how big or small the company will need to be so it can return to profitability.</span></div><div style="background-color: white; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“The only way BlackBerry can survive, therefore, is if it can dramatically cut costs to give it enough breathing room to allow these very small, nascent product lines to generate significant revenue,” Dawson concludes. “I believe that’s why Fairfax wanted to take it private — that’s an ugly kind of transition that you really don’t want to be doing in public.”</span></div><div style="background-color: white; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;"><i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Via<a href="http://news.yahoo.com/blackberry-may-shrink-way-success-211550769.html">: Yahoo News</a></span></i></div>

BlackBerry may have to shrink its way to success

BlackBerry “The last time device shipments and revenues were at current levels (way back in 2007) cost of sales and overall operating expens...

BlackBerry’s Exiting Executives Earn $6.8 Million in Severance

Unknown 0 Blackberry, Mobile, News 8:25 AM

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjLMJomMIz0iJyrk55arkBIAyW0TxoAaZeicRAZXG_y8sCjLiS0FBXD8L6Ex1ZNPji3-3CMbGkeWopvhYiB_CcyRIIPhmUf4IzTnneBgpavHrfs4zRyd-dS6wDUqYqnYZqv9txNEczw33M/s1600/EI-CE221_PHOTOC_G_20131104194552.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjLMJomMIz0iJyrk55arkBIAyW0TxoAaZeicRAZXG_y8sCjLiS0FBXD8L6Ex1ZNPji3-3CMbGkeWopvhYiB_CcyRIIPhmUf4IzTnneBgpavHrfs4zRyd-dS6wDUqYqnYZqv9txNEczw33M/s1600/EI-CE221_PHOTOC_G_20131104194552.jpg" /></a></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 8px; margin-right: 8px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><a data-ls-seen="1" href="http://online.wsj.com/public/quotes/main.html?type=djn&symbol=BB.T" style="color: black; outline: none;">BlackBerry</a><span data-change="-0.07" data-changepercent="-1.0324483775811208" data-company-name="BlackBerry Ltd." data-country="CA" data-datetime="Nov. 27, 2013 11:04 AM" data-exchange-iso="XTSE" data-iso="$" data-offset="-5" data-pc="6.780" data-price="6.71" data-ticker-name="BB.T" data-ticker="BB" data-volume="283628.00" data-widget="dj.ticker" id="0.94039585464634"><span class="tkrName">BB.T</span> <span class="tkrChange">-1.03%</span></span> is saying goodbye to three top executives Monday and will hand them $6.8 million on the way out the door.</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 8px; margin-right: 8px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">In a release Monday morning, the battered Canadian smartphone maker said Chief Operating Officer Kristian Tear, Chief Marketing Officer Frank Boulben, and Chief Financial Officer Brian Bidulka would be leaving the company.</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 8px; margin-right: 8px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Mr. Bidulka, who said he will stay on as an adviser for the rest of the year, will receive the largest exit package –$3 million. That  includes two years of his salary worth $1.2 million, plus stock options and retirement savings. He joined BlackBerry in 2005.</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 8px; margin-right: 8px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Mr. Boulben will receive $2.3 million, and Mr. Tear will receive roughly $1.5 million based upon SEC filings and the current value of BlackBerry’s stock.</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 8px; margin-right: 8px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Messrs. Tear and Boulben worked at BlackBerry for just a year and a half. Both executives joined BlackBerry in May 2012. Mr. Tear joined BlackBerry from Sony Mobile Communications. Mr. Boulben joined from <a data-ls-seen="1" href="http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052702304192704577404341177350280" style="color: black; outline: none;">LightSquared</a>, the wireless satellite company that filed for bankruptcy protection in May 2012.</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 8px; margin-right: 8px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">BlackBerry’s board of directors voted on the executive packages during the company’s July meeting and was approved by shareholders. BlackBerry declined to comment beyond the SEC filings.</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 8px; margin-right: 8px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The latest shake-up in BlackBerry’s executive suite comes after the smartphone maker called off a $4.7 billion tentative deal to sell itself to Fairfax Financial Holdings Ltd. in early November and instead said it would continue as a public company. At the time, BlackBerry replaced CEO Thorsten Heins with John Chen, former chief executive of enterprise software company Sybase Inc.</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 8px; margin-right: 8px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The severance packages for all of BlackBerry’s executives were far less than what they would have received if BlackBerry had successfully executed a sale.</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 8px; margin-right: 8px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>Via:<a href="http://blogs.wsj.com/canadarealtime/2013/11/26/blackberrys-ousted-executives-earn-7-million-in-severance/?mod=yahoo_hs"> CANADA REAL TIME</a></i></span></div>

BlackBerry’s Exiting Executives Earn $6.8 Million in Severance

BlackBerry BB.T -1.03% is saying goodbye to three top executives Monday and will hand them $6.8 million on the way out the door. In a rel...

Smartphones : BlackBerry Ltd to make new partner India's on Android

Unknown 0 Blackberry, News 7:27 AM

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi3cvHI9P1f7SjbF5P8a379uoZAeMSpQAAChUCAaSeNDe04YTG4NlQGM2fKWa5bZ5Y7k3CKoyu6XxtP2wtiJKClYGfjdDUbehKggdITDIWVGLouzpRtf-LD0UurFNCrnGB_P06X5qSHm3Yf/s1600/BlackBerry+Ltd+to+make+new+partner+India's++on+Android.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><img border="0" height="388" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi3cvHI9P1f7SjbF5P8a379uoZAeMSpQAAChUCAaSeNDe04YTG4NlQGM2fKWa5bZ5Y7k3CKoyu6XxtP2wtiJKClYGfjdDUbehKggdITDIWVGLouzpRtf-LD0UurFNCrnGB_P06X5qSHm3Yf/s640/BlackBerry+Ltd+to+make+new+partner+India's++on+Android.jpg" width="640" /></span></a></div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; line-height: 22px; padding: 0px 0px 20px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">With the BlackBerry Limited BBM app coming pre-installed, users can directly engage with other BBM users without having to download the app or incurring download charges.</span></div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; line-height: 22px; padding: 0px 0px 20px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">"BBM will soon come preinstalled on a variety of Android-based smartphones from leading OEMs across Africa, India, Indonesia, Latin America and the Middle East," BlackBerry Ltd said in a statement.</span></div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; line-height: 22px; padding: 0px 0px 20px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Beginning next month, Android smartphones from Be, Brightstar, Celkon, EVERCOSS, IMO, Micromax, Mito, Snexian, Spice, TECNO, TiPhone and Zen will include BBM preinstalled, it added.</span></div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; line-height: 22px; padding: 0px 0px 20px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">BBM will continue to be available as a free download from Android app stores, including Google Play.</span></div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; line-height: 22px; padding: 0px 0px 20px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">"It is clear that smartphone customers see BBM as a must have app for active conversations. The uptake we have seen for BBM since the launch on Android and iPhone is amazing," BlackBerry Executive Vice President (BBM) Andrew Bocking said.</span></div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; line-height: 22px; padding: 0px 0px 20px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">BBM is already available pre-loaded on Micromax's Canvas Turbo and will now be preloaded in the entire forthcoming range of Canvas phones.</span></div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; line-height: 22px; padding: 0px 0px 20px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">BlackBerry today also launched its BBM Channels, which will allow brands to engage with people and communities.</span></div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; line-height: 22px; padding: 0px 0px 20px;"><i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Source  : <a href="http://www.financialexpress.com/news/blackberry-ltd-to-partner-indias-micromax-spice-zen-on-android-smartphones/1200290">Financial Express</a></span></i></div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; line-height: 22px; padding: 0px 0px 20px;"><i>Image : Reuters</i></div>

Smartphones : BlackBerry Ltd to make new partner India's on Android

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BlackBerry ousts marketing and operations chiefs, replaces CFO

Unknown 0 Blackberry, News 11:57 PM

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjI4J9JmpE6mMNuS57Ee2fG7zAawCqSvVoM7RbZOtLMi5mSJwHSnQLQXOnWhTj7mdVNvyRmmKq8GPr74Ki05nXTseNubD125IhwmrjkNQt8dZCDALqWiezvX-nlOjebHgZHecF8-WxAw2uu/s1600/blackberry-tear-and-boulben.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="color: black;"><img border="0" height="170" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjI4J9JmpE6mMNuS57Ee2fG7zAawCqSvVoM7RbZOtLMi5mSJwHSnQLQXOnWhTj7mdVNvyRmmKq8GPr74Ki05nXTseNubD125IhwmrjkNQt8dZCDALqWiezvX-nlOjebHgZHecF8-WxAw2uu/s320/blackberry-tear-and-boulben.jpg" width="320" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 19.1875px;">The high-level shakeups aren't over at BlackBerry just because the company </span><a href="http://www.engadget.com/2013/11/04/blackberry-abandons-fairfax-deal-heins-out/" style="background-color: white; line-height: 19.1875px; text-decoration: none;">has a new CEO</a><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 19.1875px;">. The company has just </span><a href="http://www.marketwatch.com/story/blackberry-announces-management-and-board-changes-2013-11-25-81733136" style="background-color: white; line-height: 19.1875px; text-decoration: none;">let go</a><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 19.1875px;"> of Chief Operating Officer Kristian Tear (pictured at left) and Chief Marketing Officer Frank Boulben (right), both of whom had assumed their roles roughly </span>one year ago<span style="background-color: white; line-height: 19.1875px;">. There's no mention of immediate replacements. </span></span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 19.1875px;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 19.1875px;">The Waterloo firm is also replacing Chief Financial Officer Brian Bidulka with the company's Compliance head James Yersh; Bidulka will stay on as an advisor for the rest of the fiscal year to ease the transition. CEO John Chen hasn't provided explanations for the individual departures, but he describes the executive shuffle as necessary for focusing on BlackBerry's "core strength" in mobile device management. Let's just hope that Chen is better at engineering a turnaround than </span><a href="http://www.engadget.com/2013/11/05/broken-blackberry/" style="background-color: white; line-height: 19.1875px; text-decoration: none;">his predecessors</a><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 19.1875px;">.</span><br style="background-color: white; line-height: 19.1875px;" /><span class="via" style="background-color: white; line-height: 19.1875px;"></span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 19.1875px;"></span><span class="source" style="background-color: white; line-height: 19.1875px;"></span><br style="background-color: white; line-height: 19.1875px;" /><strong style="background-color: white; line-height: 19.1875px;">Source:</strong><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 19.1875px;"> </span><a href="http://www.marketwatch.com/story/blackberry-announces-management-and-board-changes-2013-11-25-81733136" style="background-color: white; line-height: 19.1875px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Marketwired</a></span>

BlackBerry ousts marketing and operations chiefs, replaces CFO

The high-level shakeups aren't over at BlackBerry just because the company has a new CEO . The company has just let go of Chief Opera...

Will a shot of Android be enough to save BlackBerry?

Unknown 0 Android, Blackberry, News 3:07 AM

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgNLgaj4uGcj7NQIWtPJNo9aEPmPMEyWKmbEZjyN8Bwfy4wDwlyaI-MoF0-aiL8ePjCE7plGdU3IgrgYwbYIXu2ge9gD-C74zQEpKOn3pKES3Yeh_mQ_JWkvFfaoa4c2Qsie7x1EWlnC4c/s1600/blackberry-10-logo-200x86.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="170" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgNLgaj4uGcj7NQIWtPJNo9aEPmPMEyWKmbEZjyN8Bwfy4wDwlyaI-MoF0-aiL8ePjCE7plGdU3IgrgYwbYIXu2ge9gD-C74zQEpKOn3pKES3Yeh_mQ_JWkvFfaoa4c2Qsie7x1EWlnC4c/s400/blackberry-10-logo-200x86.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #252525; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 15px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #252525; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 15px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Believe it or not, it wasn't that long ago that Nokia and BlackBerry were the top two smartphone companies. Indeed, in 2006, in a preemptive move against the NTP patent troll, the Department of Justice asked that BlackBerry's services be kept going even if NTP won their case. Seven years later most of us are just wondering how long the company can stay alive.</div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #252525; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 15px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">BlackBerry hasn't given the ghost up yet. Besides finding a new CEO, BlackBerry is embracing Android apps.</div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #252525; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 15px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">In a technical blog posting, BlackBerry announced that its  "Android Runtime team [is] bringing many new improvements to the runtime, such as support for Jelly Bean 4.2.2, hardware acceleration and performance updates."</div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #252525; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 15px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Specifically, BlackBerry 10.2.1 — the next release of the BlackBerry operating system — will include the following features:</div><ul style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #252525; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; list-style-image: initial; list-style-position: initial; margin: 0px 0px 15px 20px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><li style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Android Native Support:</strong> Android apps that use shared libraries written in native-code, such as C and C++, will now be supported on BlackBerry 10. Support is limited to the recommendedAndroid NDK toolset system headers and application programming interfaces (APIs). Headers and APIs outside this scope may not function correctly.</li><li style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Bluetooth:</strong> Android applications using Android Bluetooth APIs will now work on BlackBerry 10. Bluetooth Low Energy for Android is planned to be supported in a future OS release. As a reminder, Bluetooth LE is supported in the BlackBerry 10 Native/Cascades software development kit (SDK).</li><li style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">MapView v1:</strong> Applications that use MapView from Google Maps v1 API are now supported using OpenStreetMaps. Support for MapView v2 API is being planned for a future release.</li><li style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Share Framework:</strong> Android applications that register with the share framework in Android will now also appear as share targets on the BlackBerry 10 share menu.</li><li style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Spellcheck:</strong> Android applications that use text input can now leverage support for spell checking and correction, and the ability to add words to the BlackBerry 10 dictionary.</li></ul><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #252525; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 15px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The real news here is support for NDK and 4.2.2. Earlier, BlackBerry couldn't support either oneand this made porting modern Android apps to the platform a major headache.</div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #252525; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 15px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br />If all goes well, BlackBerry will be able support most, but not all, modern Android programs. With fewer and fewer developers spending their time programming for the</span>declining native Blackberry OS<span style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;">, BlackBerry desperately needs Android apps.</span>In addition, developers will be able to write headless Android apps. These are apps that run in the background and don't require an open Active Frame to function. This, in turn, means that Android apps on BlackBerry will take up less memory and run faster.</div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #252525; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 15px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">At the same time, Alec Saunders, VP of developer relations, told CrackBerry that BlackBerry is not "backing away from native developers." BlackBerry users will also still need to sideload Android apps. The company told CrackBerry that "There is no planned support for Google Play on BlackBerry."</div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #252525; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 15px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Maybe BlackBerry would have been better off if they had just embraced Android when it became clear that Android was going to be the most popular mobile operating system in the world. It's too late to cry about that now.</div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #252525; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 15px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Desperate times call for desperate measures. While it's too late to dump BlackBerry OS for Android, maybe a dose of Android apps is what BlackBerry needs to reclaim the number three mobile operating system spot. BlackBerry may never be a giant again, but with some Android it may at least survive for another decade.</div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #252525; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 15px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><i>Via: <a href="http://www.zdnet.com/will-a-shot-of-android-be-enough-to-save-blackberry-7000023331/">ZDNet</a></i></div><div><br /></div>

Will a shot of Android be enough to save BlackBerry?

Believe it or not, it wasn't that long ago that Nokia and BlackBerry were the top two smartphone companies. Indeed, in 2006, in a preemp...

Blackberry Messenger Tutorial

Unknown 0 Blackberry, How-to, Tutorial 4:56 AM

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEipea8qDweuv_xtYPOOhBuXV-dRkfOQ8J_PMCzv7lBTs9f8mtHDtsf_VdZDlHjjEDd6rZ_iMpL_6nP2s2FxHzMrJqARNkIhBNkx6Dxpfmr2mJsUySHlLeEpwStpjoasfLJyj4UdxJ_XFwg/s1600/download.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEipea8qDweuv_xtYPOOhBuXV-dRkfOQ8J_PMCzv7lBTs9f8mtHDtsf_VdZDlHjjEDd6rZ_iMpL_6nP2s2FxHzMrJqARNkIhBNkx6Dxpfmr2mJsUySHlLeEpwStpjoasfLJyj4UdxJ_XFwg/s1600/download.jpg" /></a></div><span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;">Blackberry Messenger Tutorial Free App: Best BBM guide for android chat users.Blackberry Messenger Chat is a popular new app on android, in this tutorial you will discover how to use BBM on your android phone:- How to install bbm officially on android- Download BBM APK for android- Tutorial BBM Installation for Android- BlackBerry Messenger Basics- Creating and Managing Groups- Know when your messages have been delivered and read- Multi-Person Chats- Updates- How to Share Pictures and more...- How to Add a Contact by PIN- Blackberry Messenger Smileys- BBM Emoticon- BBM for Android and iOS Hands-On- bbm registration- bbm keyboard- bbm chat messenger- bbm voice chatTags: bbm Emoticons, bbm themes, bbm unlimited, bbm release, bbm instant messenger, bbm service for android, bbm galaxy. Blackberry Messenger , Blackberry Messenger, bbm MessengerblcakberryThis application will be updated automatically when something new come up.Disclaimer:The Unofficial Application Guide for (Blackberry Messenger) is not an official guide or connected to the application developer or publisher. The content of this app are powered by YOUTUBE. This app just provides links to access the videos in an organized way and we are not responsible for any copyright issues as the app gives access to YOUTUBE videos AVAILABLE ON PUBLIC DOMAIN as is. we dont host anything. And you cant download video DUE TO THEIR TERMS OF SERVICE!. We always respect your creation. If any copyright issue please report to youtube and us.Content rating: Everyone</span><br /><br /><span style="color: #252525; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;">Via: <a href="http://downloads.zdnet.com/product/10440-76022136/">ZDNet</a></span></span>

Blackberry Messenger Tutorial

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Blackberry Extends BBM To Wi-Fi Only iOS Devices

Unknown 0 BBM, Blackberry, iOS, Mobile, Software 6:52 AM

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhqsm77w6_RlepaM58x9sGs26AwFiNJj4s-VmLfzkQ2u4W2H4bA8cqXRqkfXV4k77R9lPvB7ZYPN-39F3QcIP0jpD_wzZFVIYqAD1IwCQZE-8WAZAYMbVm2d0MehSuHVLgN3OyMyQ_zwQyt/s1600/blackberry.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><img border="0" height="438" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhqsm77w6_RlepaM58x9sGs26AwFiNJj4s-VmLfzkQ2u4W2H4bA8cqXRqkfXV4k77R9lPvB7ZYPN-39F3QcIP0jpD_wzZFVIYqAD1IwCQZE-8WAZAYMbVm2d0MehSuHVLgN3OyMyQ_zwQyt/s640/blackberry.jpg" width="640" /></span></a></div><div style="background-color: white; line-height: 24px; list-style: none outside none; margin-bottom: 30px; outline: auto 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="list-style: none outside none; margin: 0px; outline: auto 0px; padding: 0px;">BBM is no more just a messaging service but has become the latest fashion statement for most of the teenagers, especially after the service was extended to Android and iOS. Here is some news to cheer people up; BBM will be available on Wi-Fi-only iOS devices by this week.</span></span></div><div style="background-color: white; line-height: 24px; list-style: none outside none; margin-bottom: 30px; outline: auto 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Blackberry rolled out its extremely popular messaging app for Android and iOS users, in October. The Waterloo-based company wants to embrace more subscribers to its messaging service by enabling it on iOS devices like iPad and iPod versions that only support Wi-Fi.</span></div><div style="background-color: white; line-height: 24px; list-style: none outside none; margin-bottom: 30px; outline: auto 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The BBM app rolled out in October became the highest downloaded app for the month. The service was available only for the mobile holders. But the recent update will extend the service to second screens like the iPod Touch with Wi-Fi connection.</span></div><div style="background-color: white; line-height: 24px; list-style: none outside none; margin-bottom: 30px; outline: auto 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="list-style: none outside none; margin: 0px; outline: auto 0px; padding: 0px;">Bocking revealed an added advantage of BBM in the report. The cross platform messaging service does not to require any specific phone number to get installed on any device unlike the other instant messaging apps, an exciting feature especially meant for Wi-Fi enabled iPods users who do not use any cellular connection on the music device.</span></span></div><div style="background-color: white; line-height: 24px; list-style: none outside none; margin-bottom: 30px; outline: auto 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">BBM on Android and iOS has nearly 20 million users, reveals a recent post on <a href="http://www.gizbot.com/apps-software/bbm-for-wifi-only-ipad-and-ipod-touch-within-24-hours-imminent-news-014514.html" rel="nofollow" style="font-weight: bold !important; list-style: none outside none; margin: 0px; outline: auto 0px; padding: 0px;">Gizbot</a>. Blcakberry will soon introduce video calling and voice messaging for these wi-fi enabled devices in the near future. The Wi-Fi addition can be cited as a smart move on Blackberry's end to hype the excitement further and also its consumer base for BBM.</span></div><div style="background-color: white; line-height: 24px; list-style: none outside none; margin-bottom: 30px; outline: auto 0px; padding: 0px;"><i><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Source : <a href="http://www.hngn.com/articles/17326/20131114/blackberry-bbm-wi-fi-ios-ipod-ipad-24-hours-android.htm">hngn</a></span></i></div>

Blackberry Extends BBM To Wi-Fi Only iOS Devices

BBM is no more just a messaging service but has become the latest fashion statement for most of the teenagers, especially after the service ...