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: Amid a large-scale usage of smartphone messaging services like BlackBerry Messenger (BBM) and WhatsApp by manipulators to spread sensitive information about their target stocks, market watchdog SEBI is mulling over steps it can take to check risks being posed by these new-age mobile applications. To strengthen its probe and oversight on stock market transactions, SEBI has already got software tools in place along with IT experts to analyse...
12:59 PM, May 05, 2013
Madrid: The BBM Music streaming service will be closed down June 2 after a 19-month run following the completion of "a strategic review of the business", Canadian tech company BlackbBerry said. The Asi cloud music platform will be shut down and customers will get a one-month subscription to the RDIO service, Blackberry said in a statement on Thursday. Blackberry, formerly known as Research in Motion, launched BBM Music in August...
12:20 PM, Apr 06, 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
After a year-long delay and years of neglecting the onslaught by Apple and android-based phones, RIM finally unveiled its new Blackberry 10 mobile operating system, and the first phone to run it. Canada's Research In Motion is counting on this totally virtual phone to allow it to live to fight another day. ...
10:13 AM, Jan 31, 2013
For Research in Motion, BlackBerry Messenger (BBM) has been a key USP and it remains so in countries like India, where you sometimes have scenarios like restaurants using BBM to update followers about an exciting upcoming event. ...
05:45 PM, Jan 09, 2013
While BBM 7.0 with BBM Voice is not available in India currently, some indicators show it should be available in India very soon-within the next few weeks, what with the impending launch of BlackBerry-maker Research in Motion's (RIM) do-or-die OS BlackBerry 10 on January 30 and the expected operationalisation of the New Telecom Policy 2012 that liberalises India's telecom policy regime. ...
06:36 PM, Dec 26, 2012
A screenshot has recently emerged of what looks like a native BBM application on a Playbook, giving rise to speculation that a native app for the popular instant messaging service may be on the way soon for the tablet. ...
05:36 PM, Dec 26, 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
Questions are now being raised as to whether Bangalore can manage its own success. ...
08:22 PM, Nov 02, 2012
Bangalore: Wipro Chairman Azim Premji has raised a stink over Bangalore's garbage crisis, that is worsening by the day, and slammed the city's civic body, Bruhat Bangalore Mahanagara Palike (BBMP). Trash has been piling up at several places across the city for the past two months as the municipal body struggles to clear it away. Premji's criticism comes two days after the embarrassed state government was forced to take action...
01:08 PM, Nov 02, 2012
Bangalore: Trying to tackle the menace of illegal usage of flex boards and cut outs in the name of publicity, BBMP Commissioner Rajneesh Goel has tightened the grip on the zonal officers. As a result 96 criminal cases pertaining to cheap publicity have been registered against various film producers, politicians and other organisations. Time and again, Bruhat Bangalore Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) has been criticised by the High Court, civic experts...
02:25 PM, Sep 24, 2012
Bangalore: The issue of mandatory segregation of garbage at source from October 1 has been keeping the officials of BBMP on tenterhooks. Of late, many initiatives have been taken by BBMP to popularise the segregation of waste at source generating awareness among public. But, it is also creating confusion among authorities. Since September 17, all corporators, environment and health officers are being shown documentaries pertaining to segregation of waste at...
12:46 PM, Sep 22, 2012
Bangalore: The Bruhat Bangalore Mahanagara Palike seems to be stonewalling a CID probe into the Rs 1,539-crore bogus bill scam, in which many officials and elected representatives are allegedly involved. The CID sleuths, who took over the probe in December 2011, are unable to make any headway as the Palike has not provided them with documents crucial for their investigation. And the CID, it seems, may not get the documents...
02:31 PM, Sep 21, 2012
Bangalore: The next time you see a pothole, instead of cursing the Bruhat Bangalore Mahanagara Palike (BBMP), just click a photo with your smartphone and upload it to the Palikes website. Officials will fill it soon. This initiative, said to be the first of its kind, is expected to start on November 1. BBMP, in association with Karnataka State Electronics Development Corporation Limited (Keonics) is developing a unique application, which...
02:53 PM, Sep 18, 2012
Bangalore: The newly appointed Bruhat Bangalore Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) Commissioner, Rajneesh Goel's strict instructions to clear the garbage in the city and dump it in Mandur landfill has again brought the issue of landfills and the area's vulnerability to fore. Like Mandur and Mavallipura, there are many landfills in the city, which are facing serious health concerns in the vicinity and one such place is near Vrishabhavathi river in the...
04:45 PM, Sep 10, 2012
Bangalore: Mayor D Venkatesh Murthy said on Thursday that the BBMP needs at least three to six months to solve the garbage crisis in the city. Speaking to reporters, he said the civic body is taking all steps to clear the garbage piling up across the city. "We are setting up biomethane plants in 16 out of the total 198 wards. Tenders have been finalised and the work order has...
12:20 PM, Sep 07, 2012
Bangalore: Residents of various parts of the city were forced to bear the stink emanating from uncleared garbage on Wednesday. The BBMP had promised to clear the garbage before Monday. However, it failed to meet its own deadline and garbage continued to pile up across the city. Mayor D Venkatesh Murthy had set a 72 hour deadline to clear nearly 7,500 tonnes of garbage last week.The garbage had accumulated all...
01:27 PM, Sep 06, 2012
Bangalore: Want to know about the assets and liabilities of your councillors or the funds being spent on various ongoing projects? Just log on to the newly-designed official website of the BBMP. The layout of BBMPs official website (www.bbmp. gov.in) has changed from Saturday. The new layout is more user-friendly and eye catching than the previous one, the civic body has claimed. According to sources, the initiative is to make...
03:00 PM, Sep 03, 2012
