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?...
View ArticleGoogle 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...
View ArticleBlackBerry 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...
View ArticleIntelligence 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...
View ArticleRyan 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...
View ArticleApple 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...
View ArticleChina’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...
View ArticleBlackberry “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...
View ArticleT-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...
View ArticleU.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...
View ArticleApple’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...
View ArticleBlackberry 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...
View ArticleJohn 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...
View ArticleEvery 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...
View ArticleBlackberry 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...
View ArticleBlackBerry 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...
View ArticleApple 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...
View ArticleNearly 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...
View ArticleFord 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...
View ArticleSnapchat 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...
View ArticleThe 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...
View ArticleAndroid 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...
View ArticleBlackBerry 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...
View ArticleApple 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...
View ArticleBlackBerry 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...
View ArticleBlackBerry 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...
View ArticleBlackBerry 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....
View ArticleBarack 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...
View ArticleTypo’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...
View ArticleTiny 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...
View Article251.4 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...
View ArticleBlackBerry 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...
View ArticleMusic 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...
View ArticleWSJ: 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...
View ArticleJohn 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,...
View ArticleBBM 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...
View ArticleJobs 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!”...
View ArticleBlackBerry 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...
View ArticleSwift 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...
View ArticleApple 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...
View ArticleApple 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...
View ArticleiPhone 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...
View ArticleDonald 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...
View Article‘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...
View Article10 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...
View ArticleToday 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...
View ArticleSmartphone 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...
View ArticleToday 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...
View ArticleExploding 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...
View ArticleWhat 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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