BlackBerry announced that St. Louis County Emergency Management selected AtHoc to provide a highly secure alerting and personnel accountability solution. The selection and deployment of the AtHoc solution was made in preparation for the one-year anniversary of the shooting and consequent demonstrations that gripped the streets of Ferguson in August 2014.

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As I was doing my daily reading of our wonderful BlackBerryOS blog today, to my surprise a BlackBerry Priv Google ad popped up. The ad directs to the BlackBerry Priv pre-registration page that went live just a few days ago.

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Recently, we announced that Paypal payment integration would be coming to BBM chats. The problem was, when it was finally launched, the service was only available to Canada and a few other select countries. Good news! A new update released today has just activated the Paypal ...

BlackBerry seems to want to continue today's Priv hype by releasing their very own official video showing off the Priv. Among the items displayed in the video are Hub, flick/on-screen keyboard, Google Maps, and many others! This video comes merely hours after Carphone Warehouse posted their "exclusive" hands-on. BlackBerry has describes the Priv as: ...

The 42nd Canadian Federal Election will be taking place on Monday, and the party leaders are into the last leg of their campaigning. While traveling from coast-to-coast to preach the goodness of their political parties campaign stance, you'd expect a sturdy mobile device for them to keep in contact with their family, colleagues, media, office staff, etc.

Elizabeth ...

If you were looking to get an official hands-on video of the Priv by BlackBerry, it would seem that Carphone Warehouse has granted you that wish. A new hands-on video was posted to their YouTube account today that offers a 60 second glimpse of the Priv, and it's drool worthy even at it's short length.

If you look at the Priv by BlackBerry Pre-Order page, ...

Although the leaked & official images of the BlackBerry Priv have been abound lately, we've yet to see what accessories BlackBerry will launch with the beloved Android-powered device. That has changed today, as images of the upcoming accessories have surfaced online for everyone to see courtesy of ShopCrackBerry. The accessories have an expected ship date on November 10th, so we may see an official launch of BlackBerry Priv in early November.

You can see a collection of High-Resolution images below. What do you think of these accessories? Let ...

It seems that not everyone involved with Good Technology was good with the possibility of a BlackBerry acquisition. According to several sources, it would seem some Good Technology investors are currently looking to block and/or delay the acquisition by BlackBerry, valued at $425M USD.

The shareholder class action lawsuit, filed on Monday in Delaware state court, strangely does not mention BlackBerry as a defendant. In an statement, ...

If you wanted a blatant and obvious sign from BlackBerry that the launch of BlackBerry Priv was imminent, the fact that the device's registration page just went live should be some concrete proof that we are merely weeks away.

BlackBerry confirmed the 5.4” dual-curved screen, 3410 mAh battery, choice of virtual keyboard AND physical keyboard, and a Schneider-Kreuznach ...

John Chen is continuing his endeavors of pushing the positive branding of BlackBerry by confirming his attendance at the upcoming Techonomy conference.

John will be one of many speakers during the conference. The conference will take place on November 8-10, 2015 at the Ritz-Carlton, Half Moon Bay.

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When BlackBerry released the latest build of BBM a few weeks ago, one of the key features that stood out for many was the PayPal integration. At it's initial launch, the service was available only to users in Canada.

We've received several reports yesterday evening that the service is now showing ...

There is a buzz about in the mobile world since BlackBerry announced that their next flagship device, the BlackBerry Priv, would be running Android OS.

Last week at the Code/Mobile Conference, when asked about BlackBerry supporting two operating systems, BlackBerry CEO, John ...

As we've quickly come to learn, John Chen often talks in a style that can be taken out of context by many individuals in the media. His comments are never sugarcoated, and his realist attitude can sometimes make positive comments seem very gloomy in the overall landscape for BlackBerry. Last friday, John Chen posted an article called "Tempest in a Teacup" over at Inside BlackBerry, stating that he feels some context may have been missed from the interview.

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John Chen was interviewed last week at the Code/Mobile Conference, being held by Re/Code. The interview was very informative, but as expected no big new spoilers were to be found.

Here is some of the highlights provided by Inside BlackBerry Blog:

Handset strategy: “I love BB10 and I win in the very high-end there. But the very high-end is not big. In order to make money in the ...