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The federal government is doubling down on its partnership with BlackBerry, announcing a major contract extension to keep its sensitive communications encrypted and hosted on home soil. Shared Services Canada confirmed on Wednesday that it has finalized a deal to significantly increase the use of BlackBerry’s SecuSUITE platform across federal departments for the next seven...

John Chen, the CEO of former Canadian tech darling BlackBerry, announced his retirement yesterday, effective November 4, 2023. Chen, who took the helm of the company in November 2013, cited the stabilization of BlackBerry's future as the reason for his departure. In a letter on Tuesday, Chen says he was coaxed out of retirement in...

IFC Films has released its first trailer for its upcoming film drama, BlackBerry, which documents the rise and fall of Waterloo’s Research in Motion (RIM) and its ubiquitous smartphone that dominated before the iPhone and Android debuted. The BlackBerry film describes itself as “the “true story” of the meteoric rise & catastrophic demise of the...

The movie will detail the rise and fall of BlackBerry's Canadian parent company Research in Motion that eventually lost its market to Apple and Samsung.

BlackBerry has agreed to sell what it says are "substantially all" of its patents related to its legacy smartphone business.

Legacy devices "will no longer reliably function, including for data, phone calls, SMS and 9-1-1 functionality."

The vulnerability, known as BadAlloc, impacts pre-2012 versions of BlackBerry's flagship operating system.

BlackBerry has sold a number of its IP patents to Huawei. A new report from The Globe and Mail explains that BlackBerry has sold 90 patents to controversial Chinese tech giant Huawei as part of a larger effort by the Canadian smartphone pioneer to offload most of its intellectual property. According to the US Patent...

The agreement aims at introducing a new 5G BlackBerry smartphone with physical keyboard.

BlackBerry and Bell have announced a new enterprise partnership.

It was on this date 35 years ago in Canada that Research In Motion (RIM) was founded.

BlackBerry is all set to receive $40 million CAD in funding from the Canadian Government to help boost BlackBerry QNX's connected car technology.