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Movie About BlackBerry Tracks How The Device Was All Over And Then Suddenly Nowhere [Trailer]
11 May 2023 by Tayla / No Comments
Most of us will fondly recall the satisfying thumb-click of our first BlackBerry. Now it is just thought of as that thing you owned before you got an iPhone.
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Say Goodbye To Whatsapp On BlackBerry And Nokia
01 Mar 2016 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
If you weren’t already strongly considering moving on from your BlackBerry now would be the time to make it formal. Sorry, we’ve just grown apart.
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Can’t Afford A Smartphone? Here’s A Blackberry Z3 And Z10 For Under R1,800
03 Jul 2015 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Ever wished you didn’t have to spank all your cash on a smartphone? Well now you don’t have to with this awesome deal
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SA’s Top Selling Smartphone Is Not What You Think It Is
26 May 2015 by Kiernan / 1 Comment
If you want to get people riled up these days just criticise the make of smartphone they use. Yes, people are touchy about such things so let’s add some figures into the mix.
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Here Is A Fresh Breakdown Of Mobile Operating Systems Market Share In South Africa
07 Mar 2014 by Jasmine Stone / 2 Comments
Android and iOS tend to be known as the big hitters when it comes to international mobile operating system markets, but recent stats paint a different picture of the SA mobile market. Going by install base figures, BlackBerry and Symbian S60 systems hold highest market shares in SA.
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Wednesday Morning Spice
25 Sep 2013 by Seth Rotherham / No Comments
‘White Widow’ might be behind Kenyan attack. China buys 5% of Ukraine. Peru drug pair plead guilty. Blackberry’s $4.7 billion buyout. Jon Hamm throat surgery. Khloe drops ‘Odom’ from her name. Twitter’s bold video-content move..
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Tuesday Morning Spice
13 Aug 2013 by Seth Rotherham / No Comments
Blackberry for sale. Sales Assistant says Oprah is lying. England win Ashes. Dan Carter out. ANC Councillor shot dead. Whitey Bulger found guilty. Justin Bieber sings naked for his gran [pics]. Norway’s PM pretends to be cab driver.
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Save R1,300 On A Brand New Smartphone – Blackberry Z10 For R6,799
06 May 2013 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
If you still haven’t decided on what smartphone bests suits you, and you absolutely let go fo the BlackBerry brand, the Z10 is probably a safe bet. Of course, you’ll be minus your beloved keyboard, but perhaps you’ll finally get to grips with the touch screen that the adults have been using for a while.
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Friday Morning Spice
12 Apr 2013 by Seth Rotherham / No Comments
More people returning new Blackberry, than buying. FW will be at Thatcher’s funeral. Justin Bieber makes $3.7m hawking debit card. Bitcoin halves in value. Ex-Pope about to pass away. Noth Korea woman-guards wearing high-heels.
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Everything You Need To Know About The Next BlackBerry: Leaked Training Presentation
17 Jan 2013 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
Earlier this week, we told you about the 15 000 (at least) new app submissions that BlackBerry is planning on launching alongside the launch of its new smartphones and OS. Here is a good look at a lot more information ahead of that launch. Rogers is a Canadian wireless carrier and has started training its […]
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RIM Receives 15 000 App Submissions
15 Jan 2013 by Jasmine Stone / 2 Comments
BlackBerry manufacturer Research In Motion is enjoying some motion ahead of the launch of its new phones and operating system: at least 15 000 new application submissions have been received to date.
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Blackberry To Offer Free Phone Calls On BBM
15 Nov 2012 by Jasmine Stone / 3 Comments
BlackBerry maker Research In Motion (RIM) announced yesterday that its customers will soon be able to make free voice calls over a wi-fi network. The new feature will be available as a free update for existing customers. The good news comes just a couple of months before the release of the new BlackBerry 10 smartphones.
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RIM Confirms Launch Date For New BlackBerry (Good Luck With That)
13 Nov 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Despite an abysmal overall share of the smartphone market, BlackBerry will plod on with the launch of its latest software and devices early next year.
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New BlackBerry 10 Currently Being Tested, Due For Release Early Next Year
01 Nov 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
The company responsible for making BlackBerrys, Research In Motion (RIM), announced yesterday that they are currently testing the new Blackberry 10 on 50 wireless carriers around the world. They also confirmed that the new BlackBerry 10 software and phones will be released during the first quarter of next year.
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Badvertising: This BlackBerry 10 Advert Really Sucks [VIDEO]
26 Sep 2012 by Jasmine Stone / 6 Comments
Embarrassing. That single word has made up a lot of the overall feedback received after RIM uploaded this video to their YouTube page yesterday. Aimed at developers, it aims to showcase all the cool new features of the Blackberry 10 – by having a couple of dads pretend to be rockstars.
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RIM To License BlackBerry 10
14 Aug 2012 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
Bloomberg is reporting that BlackBerry maker, Research In Motion, will indeed be licensing BlackBerry 10.
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Another Nail In The Coffin, RIM Forced To Pay $147 Million Over Patent Dispute
16 Jul 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
In another financial blow that the company can’t afford, RIM has been found guilty of patent infringement and has been forced to pay out $147,2 million in damages.
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RIM’s Terrible Past Quarter Was Terrible
13 Jul 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
BlackBerry maker, Research In Motion, has had a terrible past quarter. The smartphone manufacturer is now literally hemorrhaging money and sales figures.
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RIM Says Delay In Launch Of New BlackBerrys Until Next Year Is Good Idea
10 Jul 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
RIM’s new marketing chief, Frank Boulben, said on Monday that delaying the launch of the new generation of BlackBerrys until next year will give retailers more time to focus on the revamped smartphones once they hit store shelves.
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RIM Manufacturing Partner Pulls The Plug On BlackBerry
19 Jun 2012 by Jasmine Stone / 7 Comments
Celestica, the Toronto-based manufacturer that produces hardware for Research In Motion, have announced that they’ll be stopping production of BlackBerry hardware over the next three months, and charging the company $1 billion for unsold BlackBerry inventory. Between the BlackBerry 10 smartphone getting pushed back to late 2012, and new iPhone rumours, this could sort of be RIP RIM.
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RIM Now Worth Less Than Apple’s App Store Alone
20 Dec 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
It’s no secret that Blackberry’s stock has been falling. The company that once dominated the world of business smartphones has been heavily hit by the likes of Apple and Android, causing it to market itself to the masses with cheaper handsets. This move has done little to help the company’s falling stock, with the entire company now valued at less than Apple’s App Store alone.
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Secret Software Is Probably Tracking Everything You Do On Your Phone
30 Nov 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 4 Comments
The Carrier IQ software, installed on most modern Android, Blackberry and Nokia phones, is supposed to record some of the things phones do so manufacturers can do quality control. Except it’s also been logging everybody’s text messages, web searches, and phone calls. Which is pretty bad.
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Got Siri Envy? There’s An App For That
11 Nov 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 3 Comments
A lot of us are currently using the iPhone 4 are only now coming to terms with Apple’s reluctance to allow Siri to run on our hardware. There’s probably even a bunch of us using Android that wish we could have something similar. Well, iHave good news. There’s an app for that.
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RIM Offers Free Apps To Apologize For That Whole BlackBerry Crash Thing
17 Oct 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
While Mike Lazaridis, co-CEO of RIM, has already publicly apologized for last week’s three-day BlackBerry outage, the PR guys figured that that probably wasn’t enough. Which is why they’ve announced that they’re offering BlackBerry customers a bunch of free “premium apps,” in the hopes of winning back some love. Check the app list after the jump.
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India Has Launched The Cheapest Tablet Device In The World
05 Oct 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Can’t afford an iPad? Still confused about whether RIM is or isn’t discontinuing the BlackBerry tablet (er, or as a technology company generally)? You may be interested in the Aakash. It means ‘sky’ in Hindi – and it’s been launched today in India under the tagline “the cheapest tablet computer in the world”.
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Vodacom To Cap Internet Speeds For High-End Blackberry Users
12 Sep 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 3 Comments
Vodacom has popped a cap in the bandwidth of Blackberry Internet Service (BIS) subscribers who exceed a monthly data limit of 100mb – cutting the speeds from 3G to 2G. Vodacom claims that this should only affect around 5% of the user base, as the rest are all using the service “fairly”.
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English Man Arrested For Planning Water-Fight With BBM
16 Aug 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
A 20-year-old man in Essex has been charged with “encouraging or assisting in the commission of an offence” because he used Blackberry Messenger to invite people to a public water fight. Whether this means British cops can now wiretap the Blackberry messaging network is unclear, but either way: great job, democracy.
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Blackberry May Cause Riots, Says Westminster
12 Aug 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
In a rather bizarre twist, as the UK government and security forces attempt to make sense of the wave of violent rioting and looting that swept across major UK cities this week, Prime Minister, David Cameron, called into question the role social networking platforms, such as Blackberry’s BBM (Blackberry Messaging) facility might have played in stirring up unrest that saw millions of pounds worth of damage caused to property around the UK.
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BlackBerry On Verge Of Launching iPhone Challenger
03 Aug 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 3 Comments
At least that’s what Mike and Jim at Research In Motion would have the industry believe. RIM is expected to launch several new BlackBerry devices today in a desperate effort to win back its market share, particularly in North America.
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RIM’s Co-CEOs Like To Throw Down In Front Of Their Employees
19 Jul 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 3 Comments
Research In Motion (Rim), the makers of BlackBerry, has been severely criticized for having two CEOs, but apparently there’s really only one man who wears the pants in the ever-deteriorating domestic situation that is the Rim boardroom: Mike Lazaridis.
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