Tag: Blackberry
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A friend and his Nokia in a challenging telco environment – By Okoh Aihe
My friend called me within the week and was effusive at the other end but reality supervened. The phone simply went dead while he talked on. When we reconnected much later after several attempts from both ends, the first words that left his mouth was “I am returning to my Nokia 3310.” For me the…
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BlackBerry announces date to officially ends support for all of its classic smartphones
BlackBerry classic smartphones
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BlackBerry makes shocking return with new 5G smartphones
OnwardMobility has reached agreements with BlackBerry and Foxconn subsidiary, FIH Mobile to bring BlackBerry 5G smartphones to the market. TheNewsGuru.com (TNG) reports under the terms of the agreement, BlackBerry grants OnwardMobility the right to develop, engineer, and bring to market a BlackBerry 5G mobile device. Working closely with OnwardMobility, BlackBerry and FIH Mobile will ensure…
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BlackBerry to buy California-based cyber-security firm for $1.4bn
BlackBerry, the Canadian technology company that dominated the smartphone market a decade ago, is set to acquire into its coffers California-based artificial intelligence and cyber-security Cylance. TheNewsGuru (TNG) reports BlackBerry on Friday said it is earmarking $1.4 billion, over N500 billion, for the purchase, after shifting to selling software for managing mobile devices, as well…
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Patent infringement: BlackBerry files lawsuit against Facebook, WhatsApp, Instagram
BlackBerry on Tuesday filed a patent infringement lawsuit against Facebook and its WhatsApp and Instagram apps, arguing that they copied technology and features from BlackBerry Messenger. “Defendants created mobile messaging applications that co-opt BlackBerry’s innovations, using a number of the innovative security, user interface, and functionality enhancing features,” Canada-based BlackBerry said in a filing with…
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BlackBerry loses contract dispute to Nokia, to pay $137 million fine
BlackBerry Limited today announced that the International Chamber of Commerce’s International Court of Arbitration has ruled against the company in a contract dispute with Nokia Corporation. The Canadian software maker made this known with a press release it published on its website. TheNewsGuru reports on April 28, 2016, Nokia filed a Request for Arbitration with…
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TCL to release BlackBerry KEYone QWERTY Android Smartphone May 31
TCL has announced release date for the BlackBerry KEYone QWERTY Android Smartphone, which was launched at the Mobile World Congress this year. TCL Communication, the smartphone manufacturer for BlackBerry, said in a statement that the BlackBerry KEYone will officially go on sale starting May 31 in the US and Canada, while the pre-orders will begin…
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WhatsApp delivers record 14 billion messages for Indians New Year’s Eve
WhatsApp has announced 14 billion messages were exchanged on the messaging app in India on New Year’s Eve. WhatsApp said 32 percent of the messages were in some form of media ranging from photos, GIF images, and videos to voice messages, the Facebook-owned instant messaging platform said on Friday. The number of messages shared on…
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WhatsApp stops working on older Android, iPhone, Windows Phone 7 models
Popular instant messaging app WhatsApp has stopped working in older smartphones. Anyone using a smartphone running Android 2.2 Froyo or older versions of Android, apart from an iPhone 3GS or iOS 6 and lower versions of iOS, will find that WhatsApp has stopped working on their smartphones. Notably, the market share of these devices is…
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Mobile OS that rocked 2016
Mobile phone technology is evolving daily, weekly and yearly; while the story of 2016 is not different, the major driving force behind mobile phones are the various mobile operation systems (OS). A mobile operating system or just mobile OS, is an operating system for smartphones, tablets, personal digital assistants (PDAs), or other mobile devices. While…