Orlando: BlackBerry announced plans on Tuesday to offer its popular instant messaging system on rival devices and introduced a new mid-tier smartphone, the BlackBerry Q5, targeted at countries where its faded brand remains strong.
Tapping into its popularity outside North America, BlackBerry said the new Q5 smartphone would be available in selected markets in Europe, Latin America, Asia, the Middle East and Africa.
It gave no prices, but it will clearly target a younger, more price-sensitive crowd with the device, which will be available in colors including pink, red and white. The new phone includes the tiny qwerty keyboard that still sets BlackBerry apart from most rivals.
BlackBerry, under its old name Research In Motion, virtually invented the concept of on-your-hip email with a series of blocky devices with tiny thumb-operated keyboards....
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09:55 PM, May 14, 2013
New Delhi: If you feel proud to own a BlackBerry Z10, then you are suggested to swallow your pride a little. According to a report from Geek.com, The BlackBerry Messenger integration tells all your friends (BBM contacts) whenever you are watching videos on the web. The messenger keeps a track of all you play on the Blackberry media player, and it pushes updates when a new track or video is...
05:25 PM, Apr 04, 2013
Nineteen-year-old men are the biggest victims of online bullying, the majority of which takes place on popular social networking site Facebook, a new UK study has claimed. ...
04:22 PM, Mar 17, 2013
Major telecom companies in country have agreed to providing real time intercept facilities for Blackberry smartphones meeting a December 31 deadline set by the Government. The Department of Telecom (DoT) had set a deadline of December 31 for lawful real time legal interception of Blackberry services after the Canadian-based manufacturer of the smartphone Research In Motion (RIM) had provided a solution for the same. ...
06:57 PM, Dec 30, 2012
New Delhi: After announcing the launch plans for its new BlackBery 10 smartphones, Research In Motion seems to have another treat for BlackBerry users. According to The Verge, RIM will add BBM Voice to BlackBerry Messenger. "BBM 7.0 will move away from just text with the addition of BBM Voice - free Wi-Fi calling between all BlackBerry Messenger users." The open beta starts today and interested users can test it...
03:02 PM, Nov 14, 2012
New Delhi: Research in Motion (RIM) has a huge base in India with its BlackBerry smartphone. In a bid to expand it further, the Canadian smartphone manufacturer, as a part of a Diwali offer is giving one year of free BlackBerry Messenger (BBM) service with the purchase of a Curve 9220 or Curve 9320 on or before December 9, 2012. As per the announcement, though this may seem like a...
03:13 PM, Nov 10, 2012
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05:08 PM, Nov 05, 2011
Mumbai: Research In Motion has set up a facility in Mumbai to help the Indian government carry out lawful surveillance of its BlackBerry services, the Wall Street Journal said, citing people familiar with the matter. RIM gave India access to its consumer services, including its Messenger services, in January this year after authorities raised security concerns, but said it could not allow monitoring of its enterprise email. RIM partly assuaged...
12:37 PM, Oct 28, 2011
A few months after she joined Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), Delhi, Ayesha Rachel became an addict. She just couldnt get enough of her BlackBerry Curve. I was a Nokia user but this thing is addictive, and no other phone gives me this value for my buck, she says while sending messages on the BlackBerry Messenger (BBM). This is a paradox. BlackBerry is a phone for the staid corporate types. So...
11:45 AM, Oct 19, 2011
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The recent BlackBerry outage introduced me to someone inside me I have always I feared: the paranoid BlackBerry owner who checks her phone every five ...
07:04 PM, Oct 14, 2011
New Delhi: After three days of disruptions, BlackBerry services offering e-mail, messenger and other online services were restored, Canada-based Research in Motion said. "Email systems are operating and we are continuing to clear any backlogged messages. Support teams are working to minimise the impact on our customers... We are working to restore normal service levels in all markets as quickly as we can," Research In Motion (RIM), maker of BlackBerry,...
01:03 AM, Oct 14, 2011
Research in Motion is blaming technical problems in its highly secretive communications network for a three-day disruption in service to millions of BlackBerry users around the globe. The company runs a highly secure network and data centres that are used to encrypt and route traffic to every BlackBerry device worldwide. Here are some questions and answers about the epic failure: Q. What happened? A. RIM said that a switch used...
06:45 AM, Oct 13, 2011
Toronto: The company that makes the BlackBerry smartphone is working frantically to end a three-day global service disruption that has frustrated millions of its customers and pumped up pressure on its management to make sweeping changes. Research In Motion, in a hastily announced conference call on Wednesday, vowed to eventually deliver all delayed email and instant messages to customers in five continents affected by the outage. It later told some...
06:35 AM, Oct 13, 2011
London: Millions of BlackBerry users around the world were left without text communication services for a third day on Wednesday as Research in Motion struggled to fix what it said was a switching failure in its private network. Users in Europe, the Middle East, Africa and India suffered patchy email service and no access to browsing and messaging, ratcheting up negative sentiment toward a company already losing market share to...
06:33 PM, Oct 12, 2011
Mumbai: BlackBerry services in India have come to a standstill yet again. This is the second time BlackBerry users are facing an outage in the past two days. Users on BIS and BES are unable to access their mail, Internet and BlackBerry Messenger (BBM). Though RIM announced earlier on Tuesday that services had been restored after a 20-hour outage, things folded up again by 4.45 pm (IST). While one serious...
06:59 PM, Oct 11, 2011
Mumbai: While BlackBerry services across Europe, the Middle East and Africa seem to be affected by a major BlackBerry glitch, Vodafone India may be the only Indian operator who has caught the same bug or a similar one. Meanwhile, BlackBerry services began to get restored after midnight. According to The Telegraph, one glitch, which struck at around 11AM GMT, was affecting online services for consumers all over Europe, the Middle...
08:16 PM, Oct 10, 2011
New Delhi: A possible solution to end the stalemate between BlackBerry and the government over security issues is in the offing as smart-phone manufacturer RIM has submitted a plan for real time interception which is being tested in the Department of Telecom. The government had set August 15 as the deadline for Canada's Research In Motion (RIM) to provide the country's security agencies with the interception keys to enable real-time...
07:31 PM, Sep 30, 2011
Toronto: Research In Motion's BlackBerry Messenger service was disrupted by an apparent service outage on Friday, adding a further headache as the company reels from a dismal earnings report. The messaging service, popularly known as BBM, has proved a strong selling point as RIM expands beyond its corporate base to a younger audience and into emerging markets. The Canadian company said via Twitter that it was aware of some customers...
01:15 PM, Sep 17, 2011
Toronto: Canada's Research In Motion Ltd will unveil a new cloud-based social music sharing service called BBM Music, as companies begin to bet on entertainment delivered over the Internet that incorporates social networking features. Research in Motion, the maker of BlackBerry phones, said select music from Universal Music Group, Sony Music Entertainment, Warner Music and EMI would be available for the users. A closed beta trial of the BBM Music...
06:03 PM, Aug 25, 2011
