8/19/20 12:00PM
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When TCL chose not to renew the license allowing it to make BlackBerry phones earlier this year, it seemed like a…
2/03/20 1:10PM
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There hasn’t been a new BlackBerry phone since the Key2 LE (which is basically a slightly cheaper and slower version…
12/17/19 11:45AM
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For every major leap in technology, there have been plenty of face plants, ill-advised cash grabs, and just plan bad…
12/12/19 1:30PM
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For better or worse, no gadget exemplifies the 2010s more than the smartphone. Smartphones helped propel the…
4/18/19 1:40PM
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Emtek is finally shutting down the consumer version of BlackBerry Messenger (BBM) on May 31. In a blog post, the…
1/19/19 12:16PM
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A week before CES, I finally pulled the trigger and swapped my SIM card from my sputtering iPhone 6S to a new BlackBe…
8/30/18 4:10PM
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Held in Berlin, Germany, IFA is a huge mashup of appliances, audio equipment, computers, and sausages, and unlike…
7/01/18 10:00PM
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Do you ever get that feeling that someone is pulling a fast one on you? That’s the feeling we’re starting to get…
6/27/18 9:00AM
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Chances are that if you’re reading this, there’s one smartphone feature you care more about than anything else.…
6/15/18 7:45PM
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The FBI just got its hands on a whole lot of Michael Cohen’s encrypted communications. In a letter submitted Friday,…
6/07/18 10:15AM
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After sales peaked in 2009 with just over 20 percent market share, BlackBerry phones quickly became irrelevant. Then…
6/04/18 1:54PM
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Ever since the Cambridge Analytica scandal first broke in March, Facebook has been scrambling to change its policies…
4/04/18 1:20PM
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BlackBerry is gradually feeling out its new niche as a veritable patent troll. Following a complaint it filed…
3/11/18 12:05PM
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The FBI has arrested the owner of Phantom Secure, one of a number of phone companies that it claims sells customized…
3/06/18 2:48PM
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After allegedly trying to hold discussions with Facebook for the past “several years,” BlackBerry finally decided…
10/08/17 6:30PM
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BlackBerry put an end to its long-simmering hardware misery and stopped designing new phones in 2016, opting to move…
5/04/17 10:28AM
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Pardon me dear readers. Normally this space is reserved for missives to you, but I am positive you do not care about…
2/27/17 3:10PM
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At the Mobile World Congress trade show in Barcelona, we saw two formerly great smartphone brands—Nokia and BlackBer…
9/28/16 9:24AM
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It’s the end of an era. BlackBerry, a name once synonymous with high-end smartphones, will no longer make mobile…
8/03/16 3:46PM
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Today, Kim Kardashian West tweeted out a strangled cry for help.