The equities rally has come crashing down, along with fears of contagion on the JSE after large-scale sell-offs by investors
BlackBerry may be yesterday’s smartphone but at its annual Security Summit in New York, it was looking a lot like tomorrow’s mobile security leader.
Arthur Goldstuck considers the various formats and price tags of the new high-end phones that have arrived in South Africa in the past few months.
A new service allows users to sell old phones and tablets, but deleting information before selling a device does not wipe your slate clean.
The Passport is one of the most unusual new shapes in smartphones since Motorola’s FlipOut way back in 2010.
BlackBerry has announced the Z3 smartphone, a new all-touch BlackBerry 10 smartphone designed with Indonesian customers in mind, will come to SA soon.
Sean Bacher reviews new apps for 2014, including Tagaboom, App Stalker, Active Fitness, I’m Bored and ICEPlus – an app that no one should be without.
Ill-conceived decisions by Blackberry’s chief executives have plunged the cellphone company into dire straits, but can anything be done to save it?
The once high-tech tool of world leaders and the financial elite has lost its cutting-edge reputation, aspirational appeal and its customers.
There is no "back door pipeline" to BlackBerry SA’s platform, the company says, after reports that the UK had been monitoring e-mails and phone calls.
Although there’s little glory in bronze, BlackBerry and Microsoft are battling for third position in the smartphone market.
In a surprise move, BlackBerry is taking its popular chat service cross-platform, with iPhone and Android versions due out later this year.
Thorsten Heins made the comment on the eve of the much-delayed launch of the new touchscreen BlackBerry in the United States.
The much-debated question of how many apps an app store needs was put in a South African context at BlackBerry Jam developer conference in Amsterdam.
Research in Motion has been killed off as a brand, even as BlackBerry is resurrected, in a symbolic burying of the recent, disastrous past.
BlackBerry’s App World has been replaced by BlackBerry World, a new multimedia storefront that appears to go head to head against iTunes.
A technophile looks at the smartphone platforms of today and predicts what the future looks like.
Is BlackBerry manufacturer RIM out of the woods? If all you looked at was its after-hours share price and analysts’ forecasts, you might think so.
Thorsten Heins has defended RIM less than a week after it revealed an operating loss of $643-million.
BlackBerry maker Research in Motion says it would be "plain wrong" for its future models not to have physical keyboards favoured by its users.
Service outages and failure to keep up with the iPhone mean BlackBerry’s popularity is waning and its creators have paid the price.
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/ 24 January 2012
Service outages and failure to keep up with the iPhone mean the BlackBerry’s popularity is waning and its creators have paid the price.
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/ 23 January 2012
The CEOs of BlackBerry maker Research in Motion have resigned, handing the reins to former Siemens executive Thorsten Heins.
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/ 23 January 2012
Research in Motion founders, Jim Balsillie and Mike Lazaridis have resigned, paving the way for a change at the helm of the BlackBerry phone maker.
Research In Motion’s UK boss has admitted the company was too slow to update customers during the massive disruption to its network last week.
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/ 17 October 2011
Research In Motion, the company behind BlackBerry, will offer free premium apps to customers as compensation for last week’s internet outage.
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/ 16 October 2011
Under pressure from Apple, and with a clientele furious over a lengthy blackout, the pioneering firm has suffered a startling fall from grace.
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/ 14 October 2011
The mobile-phone industry is a brutal business. There may be gold in them thar hills, but it can be painful to extract.
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/ 13 October 2011
While BlackBerry users have been reconnected with BBM and their emails, there were still problems accessing the internet via the smartphone.
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/ 13 October 2011
BlackBerry users affected by the recent outage should seek recourse from the National Consumer Commission, <em>Business Day</em> reported on Thursday.
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/ 12 October 2011
With millions of subscribers crying havoc over disrupted BlackBerry services, RIM may be suffering lasting damage to its reputation.
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/ 11 October 2011
BlackBerry users across Europe, the Middle East and Africa were hit with internet service disruptions again after a glitch on Monday.