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BlackBerry Forms Partnership with Zimbalam to Allow Unsigned Musicians To Sell Their Content Via BlackBerry World
0By: Ali Raza | March 25th, 2013 | Android, Apple, Business, Mobile Apps, News, O Canada, Smartphones
Apart from bringing in new apps to its BlackBerry 10 platform, BlackBerry is also looking to introduce some unique services as well in order to make itself different from others firms. Therefore BlackBerry has recently formed a partnership with the international digital music distributor of independent and upcoming musicians,...
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Thorsten Heins Says a Top-End BlackBerry 10 Handset Will Hit Stores During the Holiday Season of 2013
By: Ali Raza | March 25th, 2013 | Mobile Apps, News, O Canada, Smartphones
During a recent interview conducted on Thursday, March 21st, the CEO of BlackBerry, Thorsten Heins revealed that a top-end BlackBerry 10 handset will be released during the holiday season of 2013. He also said during the interview that they are quite excited about the high-end model, as it "takes Blackberry 10 to another leve...
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BlackBerry World Gets 100,000 Apps Just Before Launch of BB10 in US
By: Jeff Stewart | March 22nd, 2013 | Mobile Apps, News, O Canada, Smartphones
Before the launch of the latest BlackBerry 10 the BlackBerry smartphone manufacturer made it known that its app catalogue would boast 70,000 apps by the time it would unveil the new platform. That is exactly what happened, and on the BlackBerry 10 launch day , CEO Thorsten Heins announced that their app store BlackBerry World...
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Report says US Department of Defence is Purchasing 650,000 Apple Devices to Replace Aging BlackBerry Devices
By: Ali Raza | March 22nd, 2013 | Android, Apple, Business, iOS, News, O Canada, Smartphones, Tablets
Electronista has reported that the US Department of Defence is looking to purchase 650,000 Apple devices as a “part of its mobile testing program,” according to iPhoneinCanada. Here are the exact words from Electronista report: “We were told that the breakdown was 120,000 iPads, 100,000 iPad minis, 200,000 iPod touches, and ...
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Rumours Indicate Amazon Preparing $99 Version of 7-Inch Kindle Fire HD Tablet
By: Ali Raza | March 22nd, 2013 | News, O Canada, Tablets
The current model of Amazon’s Kindle Fire HD tablet has yet to make its debut in Canada, but rumours of its 7-inch version that is speculated to be priced at $99 have already started whirling and it is expected that the new slate will roll out sometime during this year, according to TechCrunch. If the speculation t...
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BlackBerry Improves Search Functionality of BlackBerry World to Give Users Better Results
By: Ali Raza | March 20th, 2013 | News, O Canada
BlackBerry has brought a number of changes to its app store, BlackBerry World, so that users can enjoy an improved search function of content in the catalogue by getting easy access to the top and most popular applications on its...
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BlackBerry Executive Says They will Launch 6 New BlackBerry Devices in 2013 Along with New PlayBook
By: Ali Raza | March 20th, 2013 | News, O Canada, Smartphones, Tablets
BlackBerry launched its brand new BB10 platform at the start of last month. Since then one question that has been asked more than any other: When will the Waterloo-based company launch the next PlayBook with the latest BB10 OS? Recently answering this question, CEO of BlackBerry, Thorsten Heins completely ruled out the chance...
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TELUS Replies to Critics of Canadian Wireless Industry with 42 Page Long Report
By: Jeff Stewart | March 20th, 2013 | News, O Canada
An intense war of words has taken place over the current situation of the wireless industry in Canada. An Ottawa-based professor Michael Geist shared his views on why the Canadian wireless market has remained “woefully uncompetitive,” in reply to a report from Scotia Capital which dispelled all the myths regarding the wireless industry. Then, Peter Nowak, a journalist gave his views on the Sco...
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VendAsta Technologies Secures $8.25 Million from BDC Venture Capital and Vanedge Capital in Series B Funding Round
By: Ali Raza | March 19th, 2013 | Business, News, O Canada
VendAsta Technologies based in Saskatoon, Canada has successfully secured $8.25 million funds from BDC Venture Capital and Vanedge Capital in a Series B funding round....
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Thorsten Heins says BlackBerry 10 Platform Expects to See 100,000 Apps by the Time it will Launch in the U.S.
By: Ali Raza | March 19th, 2013 | Android, Apple, Google, Mobile Apps, News, O Canada, Smartphones
After launching its latest BlackBerry 10 software and hardware in different parts of the world, BlackBerry is now all set to release it in the US on Friday, March 22. The US market is considered the toughest of all markets for BlackBerry, as previously the struggles of the Canadian manufacturer began from this very country. B...
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