Cross-platform BBM getting closer: BlackBerry distributes beta invites

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Back in May, BlackBerry announced what many of us had been talking about for years: the forthcoming availability of BlackBerry Messenger on non-BB platforms. Specifically, the company revealed its intention to deliver BBM apps for both iOS and Android phones (though phones alone: the idea of a tablet app has been specifically rejected for the time being) sometime this summer. We’ve been wondering when that might actually happen, and though

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More BlackBerry tidbits: BBM update, bad news for PlayBook

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The BlackBerry quarterly earnings call to investors is giving us more than just raw numbers on how the BB10 launch has been going, and we also get a few updates on other aspects of BlackBerry news. Unfortunately, just like those sales figures themselves, there are some more upsets in store here. The PlayBook’s QNX-based OS made it the forerunner of the BlackBerry 10 devices we know today. When full-on BB10 launched back in January, we heard from the company that

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Carrier shares BlackBerry Messenger Android/iOS ETA (Nope!)

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BlackBerry continues to move forward with its plan to release a cross-platform BlackBerry Messenger app, letting Android and iOS users join in and communicate with existing BBM users. Just yesterday we heard that this could involve partnerships with OEMs in order to ship phones with the BBM app pre-installed, ready to use. What about the rest of us, though, who will be manually downloading and installing the app? We know BBM is ...

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Google I/O Predictions, Nokia Lumia 925 Launch, NVIDIA Shield Dates & More – Pocketnow Daily

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Watch today’s Pocketnow Daily as we talk about the NVIDIA Shield, its price and release date. We later talk about the BlackBerry Q5 along with the news that BBM is now coming to iOS and Android soon. Later we go through the Verizon Droid DNA, which is now free after a two-year contract pointing to a probable HTC One reaching the carrier soon. Nokia is next as the company has just unveiled their new Lumia 925 along with other features. We end today’s show talking about our Google I/O predictions and obviously your Google I/O predictions as well. All this and more after the ...

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