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Blackberry and AMD join forces to forge robotic revolution
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Wall Street agrees

BlackBerry and AMD are fusing their expertise which they say will to revolutionise the world of robotics.

Blackberry doing well
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Friday, 24 June 2022 12:02

Blackberry doing well


Apparently it has become more cybersecurity

BlackBerry reported its first-quarter results, beating analysts’ expectations, thanks to its cybersecurity business.

Blackberry wants to settle eight year old lawsuit
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It could get messy

BlackBerry wants to settle a more than eight-year-old lawsuit claiming it defrauded shareholders by inflating the success and profitability of its long-discontinued BlackBerry 10 smartphones.

Blackberry flogs its patent portfolio
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Tuesday, 01 February 2022 10:49

Blackberry flogs its patent portfolio


For whom the bell trolls

BlackBerry announced a sale of its prized patent portfolio for $600 million to "Catapult IP Innovations Inc.," a new company BlackBerry describes as "a special purpose vehicle formed to acquire the BlackBerry patent assets."

Blackberry OS is now officially dead
Published in Mobiles
Thursday, 30 December 2021 12:08

Blackberry OS is now officially dead


There might be a few still around

Ancient BlackBerry phone running BlackBerry OS are now officially going to be out of support.

Blackberry phones ain't dead yet
Published in Mobiles
Friday, 21 August 2020 11:13

Blackberry phones ain't dead yet


Someone else wants a crack at it

It looks like someone else wants to take up the Blackberry mantle after  TCL announced plans to stop producing BlackBerry phones later this year.

It took five years to crack an encrypted Blackberry
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Breaking bad

An encrypted BlackBerry device that was cracked five years after it was first seized by police is poised to be the key piece of evidence in one of the state's longest-running drug importation investigations.

FBI tried to force mobile phone maker to install a backdoor
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Looks like all that Huawei stuff is projection

The FBI tried to force the owner of an encrypted phone company to put a backdoor in his devices.

BlackBerry buys Cylance
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Monday, 19 November 2018 11:06

BlackBerry buys Cylance


Writes $1.4 billion cheque

BlackBerry announced that it has agreed to acquire endpoint security firm Cylance for $1.4 billion in cash.

Secure Blackberry phone CEO pleads guilty
Published in Mobiles
Friday, 05 October 2018 11:46

Secure Blackberry phone CEO pleads guilty


Drugs conviction for Phantom Secure's Ramos

The Canadian executive of a 10-year-old company that marketed its purportedly secure BlackBerry services to thousands of criminals - who paid at least $4,000 per year, per device - has pleaded guilty to a racketeering conspiracy charge.