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Obama Is Stuck On BlackBerry, Not Allowed To Have An iPhone

When Barack Obama first made his run at the United States presidency way back in 2008, much fuss was made about how this politician was so cool, he used a BlackBerry. Seems laughable now, doesn’t it?...

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Google Scrapped Android & Started Again The Day After Apple Unveiled iPhone

No matter how you feel about Apple and the iPhone, it’s impossible to deny that the device completely revolutionized the mobile industry when it was launched in 2007. Without it, the smartphones of...

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BlackBerry Shows Off BBM Channels & Free Voice Calling For Android & iOS [Video]

BBM has been a huge success on Android and iOS, and so although they may be rival platforms, that won’t stop BlackBerry from porting over its biggest and best BBM features to keep its messaging service...

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Intelligence Test Shows The iPhone Is The Smart Phone For Smart People [Report]

Which phone users are the smartest? According to a peer-reviewed scientific study online intelligence test by renowned university British betting company Ladbrokes, the answer is iPhone owners. The...

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Ryan Seacrest’s Startup Sued By Blackberry For Putting A BlackBerry Keyboard...

Last month, we told you about a new startup called Typo Keyboard that’s backed and co-founded by TV/radio personality Ryan Seacrest. The story behind it was that Seacrest was so frustrated with the...

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Apple Tops Samsung In 2013 U.S. Smartphone Marketshare

  While Microsoft and BlackBerry are still trying to piece together a decent mobile user base in the U.S., Apple and Samsung managed to widen their lead against the competition in terms of smartphone...

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China’s Government-Approved OS Wants To Take On Android & iOS

BlackBerry and Windows Phone might be having a hard time trying to break up the monopoly on mobile software held by Android and iOS, but that hasn’t stopped the Chinese government from having a go with...

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Blackberry “Outraged” That T-Mobile Thinks People Would Be Better Off With...

Do you think Blackberry is dead? So does T-Mobile, which is why they tried to get Blackberry customers on the network to switch over to Apple’s smartphone. But apparently, Blackberry has some life in...

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T-Mobile Offers BlackBerry Users $250 After Suggesting They Switch To iPhone

When T-Mobile sent out an email to BlackBerry-using customers suggesting that they switch to an iPhone 5s, the response from the BB faithful was loud and angry. Even BlackBerry CEO John Chen said that...

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U.S. Air Force Ditches 5,000 BlackBerries For iPhone

Blackberry has been dealt another blow as yet another major customer jumps ship to iPhone. The U.S. Air Force is planning on replacing 5,000 Blackberries with iPhones. In a report from the Air Force...

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Apple’s CarPlay Works Closely With Blackberry’s QNX Platform

Apple designed CarPlay ”from the ground up” to be the future of car dashboard systems. And while technology is still based on iOS, how it communicates with the car is another matter. CarPlay utilizes...

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Blackberry CEO Coins Dumb New Slur For iPhone Users: “Wall Huggers”

Takes one to know one, Blackberry. The CEO of the beleaguered Canadian smartphone manufacturer — which recently celebrated achieving its first 0% market share since the smartphone wars started — is now...

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John Chen Thinks He Can Save BlackBerry The Same Way Jobs Saved Apple

iPhone users may be “wall huggers” according to BlackBerry CEO John Chen, but that doesn’t mean that he’s not taking a page or two out of the Apple playbook. Describing his vision for BlackBerry in a...

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Every Other Smartphone Maker Would Kill To Have A “Flop” Like The iPhone 5c

We’ll admit we’ve called the iPhone 5c a flop more than a few times. But it’s important to remember that what is a flop for Apple would be a huge success by the standards of any other company, which is...

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Blackberry Is Now Suing Its Executives To Prevent Them From Going To Work For...

Blackberry — the beleaguered Canadian smartphone maker who controls literally 0 percent U.S. market share — is now suing its own executives to prevent them from quitting their jobs and flocking to...

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BlackBerry Severs Partnership With T-Mobile After iPhone Feud

BlackBerry has announced that it will not renew the T-Mobile (U.S.) license to sell its products when it expires on April 25 — ending a decade-plus relationship between the two companies. “BlackBerry...

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Apple and Samsung now control 106% of smartphone profits

The smartphone wars are two company race and it’s not even close. Apple and Samsung are dominating the competition so badly that a new report from Canaccord Genuity claims the two tech giants account...

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Nearly half of UK BlackBerry owners dream of upgrading to… iPhone 4

Although BlackBerry hasn’t been a serious competitor to the iPhone in years, the UK phone trade-in website “Cash for phones comparison” has published some pretty damning statistics, showing just how...

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Ford plans to ditch Blackberry for thousands of iPhones by end of 2014

Apple scored a major corporate client today in Ford, the second largest U.S. automaker. Ford has announced that it is switching from Blackerry to the iPhone, and new iPhones will be in the hands of...

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Snapchat seeks funding with whopping $10 billion valuation

Snapchat is currently in talks with investors over a round of funding that could value the company at a mind-blowing $10 billion, according to sources for Bloomberg. That’s a little over half the $19...

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The Typo keyboard that turns your iPhone into a BlackBerry is back

The original Typo keyboard for the iPhone racked up quite a few column inches (or whatever the blogosphere equivalent might be) after it was revealed that none other than Ryan Seacrest had invested $1...

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Android grabs a larger market share as iOS falls

Android has yet again increased its lead in U.S. market share as its rivals give up precious points, according to the latest data from Kantar WorldPanel. Google’s popular platform now commands an...

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BlackBerry gets caught tweeting from an iPhone

BlackBerry isn’t quite dead yet, but don’t tell that to the person running their Twitter account. The classic BlackBerry keyboard is great for pounding out 140-character tweets, yet whoever is tweeting...

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Apple should be forced to bring iMessage to BlackBerry, CEO claims

There was a time before iPhones, when BlackBerry was the go-to name when it came to high quality smartphones. Those days are now well and truly over, although BlackBerry is still on the lookout for...

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BlackBerry wins nearly $1 million in damages over Ryan Seacrest’s Typo iPhone...

Remember Typo? They were the Ryan Seacrest-backed company that released a case that gave your iPhone a BlackBerry-like QWERTY keypad. Not so surprisingly, BlackBerry wasn’t happy. The company sued Typo...

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BlackBerry sues Ryan Seacrest’s Typo iPhone keyboard case again

You’d think one patent-infringement lawsuit would be enough, but Ryan Seacrest’s iPhone case startup clearly didn’t get the message after its last courtroom tangle with BlackBerry. The new Typo...

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BlackBerry is losing 56,000 users a month in the U.K.

BlackBerry’s smartphone business is imploding in a big way in the U.K., where the company is currently losing around 56,000 users every month to Android, iOS, and Windows Phone, new research shows....

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Barack Obama writes his first tweet from an iPhone

  President Barack Obama is finally ready to enter the age of social media. After sitting behind the Resolute desk for six years, the president finally opened his own Twitter account today, but rather...

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Typo’s BlackBerry-style keyboard for iPhone is dead

The Typo Keyboard is dead. Long live… well, other iPhone 6 cases, we guess. In a rare win for BlackBerry, the company today announced that it has come to an agreement with Typo, the Ryan...

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Tiny charger taps AA batteries to keep your phone running

Modern mobile phones need a lot of power; chances are we’ve all got an external battery pack (or at least a second cable and wall plug) tucked away in a bag somewhere that will charge up our Android...

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251.4 Million Smartphones Were Sold Last Quarter, And 81.3% Were Running Android

Worldwide smartphones shipments reached a whopping 251.4 million units during the third quarter of 2013, up 45% from the 172.8 million units sold during the same quarter last year, and 81.3% of them...

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BlackBerry Scraps Sale Plans, Fires CEO Thorsten Heins Instead

BlackBerry has today announced that it has scrapped plans to sell its hardware business, and that it will be replacing current CEO Thorsten Heins instead. The Canadian company has also secured $1...

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Music Streaming Service Deezer Launches Native Mac App

  Music streaming service Deezer has today announced that it now has more than 5 million paid subscribers worldwide, and it’s launching a new native Mac app that will improve the Deezer experience on...

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WSJ: Apple Partners With New Suppliers For iPhone 5c & iPad Mini

Apple is reportedly teaming up with new suppliers to boost production of the iPhone 5c and the iPad mini to meet strong consumer demand, The Wall Street Journal reports. Wistron Corp., a manufacturer...

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John Sculley: We Had The Funds To Buy BlackBerry, But We Waited Too Long

Former Apple CEO John Sculley has confirmed that he and a group of investors were lining up a bid for BlackBerry, but they waited too long and lost out. In an interview on Bloomberg Surveillance,...

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BBM Channels Exits Beta, Coming To Android & iOS Soon

BBM Channels, the latest addition to BlackBerry’s popular messaging platform, which made its public debut earlier today after more than six months in beta, is coming to Android and iOS “in the coming...

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Jobs would’ve despised this BlackBerry-inspired iPhone concept

The Apple-watching world just about blew a gasket when the Apple Pencil was first announced for the iPad, given Steve Jobs’ famous assessment that, “If you see a stylus, [Apple engineers] blew it!”...

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BlackBerry CEO: Apple’s privacy stance is unethical

BlackBerry CEO John Chen has waded in on the the question of whether or not Apple is right to refuse to help the government access smartphone data for security purposes. “For years, government...

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Swift grew, er, really fast in 2015

Swift, the programming language that creates apps for all of Apple’s hardware, had a pretty happy 2015, according to a report from job site Freelancer.com. The data comes from 1,429,842 “good” projects...

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Apple turns car ambitions toward self-driving system

As Apple’s “secret” electric car project gains momentum, the company continues to pick up top talent for their automotive experience. Its latest hire is Dan Dodge, founder and former CEO of QNX, who...

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Apple squeezes Blackberry to build carOS

The rotting corpse of Blackberry Ltd. may provide the extra juice needed to get Apple’s car project rolling. Apple has reportedly poached key engineers from BlackBerry’s QNX team in Canada to help...

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iPhone 7 adoption outpaces iPhone 6, Android switching on the rise

If you thought people were getting tired of the iPhone, think again. Consumer Intelligence Research Partners (CIRP) released a new report today, suggesting that the iPhone 7 and 7 Plus launch marks an...

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Donald Trump forced to give up his beloved Android

Donald Trump has been forced to give up his beloved Android smartphone as he steps into the White House. He has now been issued a “secure, encrypted device approved by the Secret Service,” alongside a...

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‘Apple should pull the plug’: 10 iPhone predictions from 2007

Predicting the future is tough, even for the experts. That’s the only lesson we can learn from looking back at these horribly misguided iPhone predictions that greeted the device at its launch 10 years...

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10 times Apple learned from massive iPhone mistakes

It might be the most successful smartphone on the planet, but the iPhone didn’t become what it is today without some failures along the way. Even before the device made its much-anticipated debut in...

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Today in Apple history: iOS finally overtakes Windows Mobile

December 17, 2009: Apple finally triumphs over longtime rival Microsoft … on mobile operating system market share. Figures released by research firm comScore show that iPhone OS (as iOS is called at...

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Smartphone sales decline for first time ever in 2017

The world may have passed its peak smartphone moment last year. Smartphone sales data released today from the number crunchers at Gartner revealed that worldwide smartphone sales declined for the first...

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Today in Apple history: iOS overtakes BlackBerry OS

June 3, 2011: iOS overtakes Research in Motion’s BlackBerry operating system for the first time. While Android remains comfortably in the lead in terms of market share, the news marks the beginning of...

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Exploding phone blamed for Malaysian VC’s death

A Malaysian man perished in a fire in his bedroom, but his family and his company say he was actually killed when the phone charging near his bed exploded. “He had two phones, one Blackberry and a...

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What it will take to push Apple to $4 trillion

Two monumental events happened this week. Apple became the first U.S. company to be worth an astonishing $3 trillion. And a day later came the official end of BlackBerry — a series of phones that once...

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