The US government has blocked ZTE from sourcing anything from American companies while Apple's CEO says Macs and iPads on their own are the best at what they do. All on our show this week!
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It'd be cheap, do little, but do it well and do it securely. It'd be affordable enough to be a second phone, a work phone. And BlackBerry's CEO wants it bad.
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While BlackBerry has officially wrapped up its mobile hardware division, it’s still going to sell phones — Android smartphones — with its name and software on it.CEO John Chen has continued to insist that the company will be calling shots for the design of the phones and we may see another attempt at
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BlackBerry might not be on everyone’s radar as it was around a decade ago, but that doesn’t mean the company hasn’t tried to change that. It took two dramatic shake-overs to have the company finally adopt Android with the BlackBerry Priv. We do know that the company’s quarter results didn’t say anything positive about that move, but that isn’t everything the company has up its sleeve.Following the recent rumors of mid-range BlackBerry devices following the Priv, about the only missing piece of the puzzle is when. Lucky for us, the company’s CEO ...
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BlackBerry CEO John Chen wrapped up a talk at the Milken Institute Global Conference today with some media stew. That stew was all up in the company’s smartphones — phones that investors have seen the end of and that won’t be making money.When a Bloomberg interviewer pointed out Chen’s prior pledge to give up on hardware and how critics felt that the decision point was being dragged along, ...
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If you’re in Canada and you don’t want the Royal Canadian Mounted Police peeping through your BlackBerry’s content, get rid of it. Chances are, if that phone’s not for business, the agency has a way to get into it — likely thanks to BlackBerry.An investigation lead by Motherboard and Vice tells of “over one million” BBM messages obtained and then read by breaking
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We’ve heard BlackBerry CEO John Chen give his perspective before on the state of his company’s migratory platform and the concept of “app neutrality.” Even with the niche it has been relegated to, BlackBerry’s slice of the market’s pie has had to fight off shrinkage. It may be to the point where the collaboration with Android and the
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BlackBerry hasn’t been a true favorite in any market lately, and proof of it are its terrible device sales in the last couple of years. As a result, and due to the tremendous disappointment that customers experienced with devices like the BlackBerry Z10, carriers like T-Mobile decided to allow customers to return their BlackBerry devices in exchange for anything else, and obviously that didn’t leave the relationship in ...
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