BlackBerry Classic only BB10 device out of production, company says

An email circulated around the Senate telling of the impending end to the issuance of BlackBerry 10 devices this week, but the future of those smartphones seems less dire and more clear now.The missive said that BlackBerry informed AT&T and Verizon that it has stopped producing all BlackBerry 10 devices, something that CrackBerry decided to ask the company about.In a ...

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Obama dropped BlackBerry and now the Senate has, too

President Obama dropped his BlackBerry — somewhat against his will (and to his liking) — and so will plenty of Capitol Hill staffers.Specifically, employees of the Senate will no longer be issued BlackBerry phones. Why? BlackBerry has stopped the factories and AT&T and Verizon are clinging onto little inventory.In a notice sent to Senate administration, the Sergeant at Arms ...

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Senate “encryption backdoor” bill goes public, as critics prepare to fight

Apple may have never gotten its day in court to make its case for why the FBI shouldn’t be able to force it to develop software capable of breaking iOS security, but the fight over access to user data is far from over. The controversy surrounding the pressure the feds put on Apple to help it crack into a secured iPhone 5c was just the most recent and most public instance of the ongoing ...

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