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BlackBerry pursues Greatness: The sequel
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.
Smart options for new arrivals of high-end phones
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.
The flaw in factory resets
A new service allows users to sell old phones and tablets, but deleting information before selling a device does not wipe your slate clean.
Blackberry Passport will make or repeat history
The Passport is one of the most unusual new shapes in smartphones since Motorola’s FlipOut way back in 2010.
BlackBerry’s Z3 smartphone coming to SA ‘very soon’
BlackBerry has announced the Z3 smartphone, a new all-touch BlackBerry 10 smartphone designed with Indonesian customers in mind, will come to SA soon.
Five apps for 2014, and one you can’t do without
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.
Can anyone save Blackberry?
Ill-conceived decisions by Blackberry’s chief executives have plunged the cellphone company into dire straits, but can anything be done to save it?
What happened to BlackBerry?
The once high-tech tool of world leaders and the financial elite has lost its cutting-edge reputation, aspirational appeal and its customers.
BlackBerry SA reassures customers after UK spying claims
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.
Blackberry vs Microsoft – the desperate struggle for third place
Although there’s little glory in bronze, BlackBerry and Microsoft are battling for third position in the smartphone market.
BBM is coming to iOS, Android
In a surprise move, BlackBerry is taking its popular chat service cross-platform, with iPhone and Android versions due out later this year.
Apple iPhone is outdated, says Blackberry CEO
Thorsten Heins made the comment on the eve of the much-delayed launch of the new touchscreen BlackBerry in the United States.
Local apps for a local market
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.
RIM buries past and changes name to BlackBerry
Research in Motion has been killed off as a brand, even as BlackBerry is resurrected, in a symbolic burying of the recent, disastrous past.