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Few people remember third place. Whether in sport, science or business, there's little glory attached to the bronze medal. But two multinational giants, BlackBerry and Microsoft, are straining to be the third player in the burgeoning smart phone market.The latest figures from IDC, an industry analyst, show a rapidly expanding global market for this new generation of mobile phones. Over 216-million handsets were shipped during the first three months of 2013, an increase of over 40% compared with the same ...
Finally. After years of rumours and cries for a cross-platform service, BlackBerry Messenger (BBM) is headed to phones that don't carry the company's logo. As CEO Thorsten Heins revealed at BlackBerry Live yesterday, the popular instant messaging app is headed to Android and iDevices later this year -- but can it find a foothold among all the messaging apps clogging up the various app stores?Despite the worldwide marketshare BlackBerry has lost over the past few years, BBM, which is a ...
There were always going to be questions around BlackBerry's decision to open up its BBM messaging platform and some of the loudest came from the stock market.Shares in the Canadian smartphone maker dropped four percent following CEO Thorsten Heins' keynote at the BlackBerry Live conference yesterday.During the keynote, Heins announced a new mid-range Qwerty phone for emerging markets, channels for BBM and the launch of BBM for iOS and Android.While the Q5, a 3.1-inch touch and keyboard ...
The BlackBerry faithful and converts alike gathered in Florida today to watch BlackBerry CEO Thorsten Heins deliver his first keynote since the BlackBerry 10 launch back in January this year.So how has the troubled smartphone maker fared since its rebirth? "Some said last year's conference would be the last for BlackBerry. They said it would by my first and last time on stage. I'm happy to say they were wrong," said Heins. "This year feels very, very different. It's ...
With the success of the iPad, the global uptake in the number of tablet computers and the urgency that almost every manufacturer on the planet has felt to create its own 7-to-10 inch slate, you'd think the last thing the boss of any mobile company would be talking about is the death of tablets. Well, you'd be wrong. BlackBerry's Thorsten Heins apparently thinks the gadgets won't see out the decade.Bloomberg reported today that the CEO doesn't put much stock in ...
BlackBerry ended the fourth quarter of fiscal 2013 -- the first to include sales of the Z10 -- in, well ... the black.The Waterloo-based communications company today announced its quarterly results and, while it's managed to stay profitable things are far from back to booming at the company.Revenue for the quarter was approximately US$2.7-billion, down US$49-million or two percent from approximately US$2.7-billion in the previous quarter and down 36% from US$4.2-billion in the same quarter of fiscal 2012. ...
The tech world is no stranger to crazy billion dollar marketing budgets and massive campaigns that stretch to cover everything from print to mobile and in-store promotions to Times Square takeovers. So in the run-up to the US launch of BlackBerry's new Z10 smartphone, you'd expect the manufacturer to quickly capitalise on the hype with some innovative campaign. So, what does the company formerly known as RIM have up its sleeve?Takeovers. Big, flashy, real-time, mobile and desktop takeovers. Speaking to ...
Hey BlackBerry groupies, get ready dust your old T Shirts off and rock out. The band is back together.Yup, it turns out the Canadian manufacturer wasn't content with just one awful music video, so it made another one.A re-interpretation of Etta James' song "At Last", the latest video is a celebration of the launch of the BlackBerry Q10 and Z10. As was the case with the last video, the company's latest effort features altered lyrics and very ...
For today's instalment of 'that's so ironic', I present to you the words of BlackBerry CEO Thorsten Heins. The man who is head of the company whose devices have been repeatedly criticised for failing to innovate and keep up with the pace of change (before the launch of BlackBerry 10, at least) has reportedly called the iPhone "old".Speaking to the Australian Financial Review, Heins added his voice to the arguments that Apple's designs are increasingly becoming evolutionary and not revolutionary, ...If you were casually hanging out on Google Finance late yesterday investigating how BlackBerry's stock is doing, you may have spotted something strange -- the share price suddenly headed skyward. Why? Well, it's all thanks to some rumours.According to Bloomberg, the Canadian smartphone manufacturer is reportedly an acquisition target for tech giant Lenovo, whose CEO vaguely mentioned something about a deal with BlackBerry that could potentially work in the distant future. Yang Yuanqing told French newspaper Les Echos that an ...
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