blackberry
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Take These Shortcake Fixings Along When You Go Berry-Picking
Once a year, I go strawberry picking with my friend Amanda. (You might know Amanda; she writes about pickles and parties.) Rummaging through leaves while hunched over, getting all itchy in search of the perfect, vibrantly red berry may not sound like fun, but there is something meditative about it, and I do enjoy the…
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BlackBerry Is Suing Facebook Over Messaging Patents
After missing the boat on the mobile hardware and software transformation of last decade, and then suffering a massive blow when they were sued over patent infringements, BlackBerry is fighting back and suing Facebook saying they copied technology and features from BlackBerry Messenger.
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Blackberry Is Back, But Have We Learned To Live Without The Smartphone Keyboard?
This week, a new smartphone brandishing the Blackberry name was unveiled at Mobile World Congress. By all accounts, it looks and feels just like an old Blackberry, albeit running Android in lieu of BlackberryOS. The iPhone and Android generation has grown up with onscreen keyboards, but do old-school smartphone users still pine for their old…
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Blackberry’s Decryption Key Debacle: We Should Have Seen This Coming
In a time when encryption is a sensitive topic and technology providers are eager to prove they have their users’ privacy at heart, reports of Blackberry handing over its global decryption key for its BlackBerry Messenger (BBM) service to a police agency couldn’t have come at a worse time. But when you look at the…