The average consumer may be able to thumb through FCC filings to get a peek at their next smartphone, but certain government employee’s hopes lie in the hands of another agency: the US Department of Defense . Good news for federally employed BlackBerry fans , then — the company just announced that BlackBerry 10 smartphones and PlayBook tablets running Enterprise Service 10 have been added to the Defense Information Systems Agency’s approved product list. . . . → Read More: BlackBerry Z10, Q10 and PlayBook get DoD approval
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Just when you think BlackBerry may have learned their lesson, the new CEO Thorsten Heins said in an interview yesterday at the Milken Institute conference in Los Angeles, “In five years I don’t think there’ll be a reason to have a tablet anymore. Maybe a big screen in your workspace, but not a tablet as such . . . → Read More: BlackBerry’s CEO Claims No Reason To Own Tablet In Five Years Know what’s better than a shiny new BlackBerry Q10 ? A BlackBerry Q10 with a 64GB PlayBook thrown in for free, and Phones4U is the place to get it. To be clear, the UK retailer has begun taking pre-orders for the BB10 handset with a hardware keyboard today, and the first 300 folks to pledge their money will get one of BlackBerry’s 7-inch slates for free along with it. . . . → Read More: Phones4U taking BlackBerry Q10 pre-orders, giving away PlayBooks to first 300 customers (update) BlackBerry is launching the Z10 today in the U.S., but it’s already looking ahead to what comes next, according to an interview between ABC’s Joanna Stern and BlackBerry CEO Thorsten Heins . The company is working on ways that BlackBerry software can power your laptop or tablet, too, and all from your smartphone. . . . → Read More: BlackBerry CEO Talks Testing Smartphone-Powered Notebooks and Tablets, Will Share More Info In May The BlackBerry PlayBook was not one of BlackBerry’s ( BBRY ) more successful products, which is why CEO Thorsten Heins is understandably wary about producing a sequel in the near future. Australia’s Herald Sun reports that while speaking at the BlackBerry Z10 launch in Australia this week, Heins said that he didn’t want to produce a followup to the PlayBook until the company figured out how to make it “not just.. . . . → Read More: BlackBerry CEO wary of producing a PlayBook sequel It isn’t a leak when it’s announced by your director of product management at BlackBerry Middle East, who announced the existence and likely shipping date of the 10 inch BlackBerry PlayBook. Mike Al Mefleh made the comments during the BlackBerry users forum in Dubai, stating “We have a very clear road map. The company will launch six additional new devices in 2013…” There are some interesting takeaways from the interview held with Emirates 24|7 , not the least that there would be 6 other devices in addition to the 10 inch tablet . . . → Read More: 10 inch playbook – and 6 more devices on the way It isn’t a leak when it’s announced by your director of product management at BlackBerry Middle East, who announced the existence and likely shipping date of the 10 inch BlackBerry PlayBook. . . . → Read More: 10 inch playbook – and 6 more devices on the way Your smartphone and / or tablet is just begging for an update. From time to time, these mobile devices are blessed with maintenance refreshes, bug fixes, custom ROMs and anything in between, and so many of them are floating around that it’s easy for a sizable chunk to get lost in the mix. . . . → Read More: Refresh Roundup: week of February 11th, 2013  Our own John Biggs could tell you that there were some terribly neat projects to be found at the PennApps Hackathon, but not every app there was… on the up-and-up, let’s say. Case in point: a group of young developers whipped up an iOS app called Playbook that lets people upload and rate pictures of their romantic conquests with their so-called “bros.” Really. Just let that sink in for a moment . . . → Read More: Are You A Jerk Who Wants To Share Your Sexual Conquests? Sadly, There’s An App For That  Nokia and RIM already have a troubled history whenever they come into contact, so it’s no surprise that what truces they do have are fraying at the edges. Thanks to filings, we now know that RIM has lost a Swedish arbitration proceeding where it tried to extend a 2003 patent cross-licensing deal with Nokia to include WiFi devices; the wireless technology isn’t covered, the arbitrator says, and RIM now has to either pay royalties worldwide or risk seeing its devices yanked from the market. Nokia isn’t wasting any time pressuring the team in Waterloo into coughing up — it’s taking steps to enforce the decision in Canada, the UK and the US. . . . → Read More: RIM loses in arbitration with Nokia, may have to pay royalties on BlackBerrys with WiFi |
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