Blackberry review – souped-up account of the rise and fall of ‘Crackberry’
January 2022
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Josh Wardle: in Wordle, he has given us an unalloyed pleasure
Rebecca Nicholson
The daily online puzzle demands nothing of us except a few minutes of delighted concentration
January 2021
GameStop shares surge again as Robinhood restores trading
App helping to fuel share-buying frenzy allows ‘limited buys’ after a $1bn cash injection to safeguard trades
September 2017
BlackBerry shares soar by 12% as software sales hit record
BlackBerry’s transformation from loss-making smartphone maker to software firm continues as quarterly profits rise and the yearly outlook is ‘robust’
January 2017
New BlackBerry smartphone with qwerty keyboard revealed
Manufactured by TCT with BlackBerry’s version of Android, new BlackBerry Press gets teaser before Las Vegas reveal at CES
July 2016
BlackBerry to stop making Classic smartphone, killing keyboards for good
Company to stop making device it hoped would entice users who prefer a physical keyboard, a symbolic shift away from handsets and toward software
March 2016
How did email grow from messages between academics to a global epidemic?
Ray Tomlinson, the man who literally put the @ in email addresses, has died. Here’s a brief history of electronic messages, from the Queen’s first mail to the triumph of spam
December 2015
Blackberry's 12% revenue rise for first time in two years fuels hopes of a revival
Struggling smartphone maker announces a 12% rise in revenue and finds success with phone powered by Google’s Android mobile operating system
November 2015
BlackBerry to pull out of Pakistan over government surveillance
Smartphone maker plans exit after ban on secure communications sees demand for ‘unfettered access’ to all customer information
Apple, Google and Microsoft: weakening encryption lets the bad guys in
Technology companies respond to post-Paris attack threats to web security and calls for backdoors in encryption from government
BlackBerry boss John Chen: security focus heralds return 'from edge of death'
Once a smartphone leader, BlackBerry’s failure to recognize the rise of mobile browsing nearly sunk the firm. Superior security could be key to its survival
July 2015
Pakistan bans BlackBerry services in privacy crackdown
Telecommunication authority orders encrypted messaging and internet services to be stopped ‘for security reasons’
June 2015
BlackBerry planning to launch Android smartphone with sliding keyboard
New smartphone would mark U-turn in company strategy as it struggles to stymie falling sales and moves to place software on iPhones and other Androids
March 2015
'Crackberry' days over as BlackBerry handset sales fall to just 8.5m
Chief executive John Chen said company made a pre-tax loss of $385m – an improvement on $7.2bn of losses the previous year
February 2015
BlackBerry left on the line as UK users continue to hang up
Mobile phone maker’s non-business market will slump below 1 million this year, according to two research firms who foresee a bleak future for the brand
January 2015
BlackBerry boss: net neutrality means devs should have to make BB apps
John Chen has argued that the lack of a Netflix app for Blackberry phones is as bad as the typical ‘internet fast lane’ view of net neutrality
BlackBerry Classic review: the phone diehards have been waiting for
BlackBerry has gone back to basics with its Classic, an update of the Bold that’s the best physical keyboard yet
Samsung denies setting its sights on BlackBerry
South Korean firm thought to be interested in gaining a foothold in the lucrative corporate smartphone market despite dismissing reports of takeover talks
December 2014
BlackBerry hit by worse-than-expected sales
Smartphone maker slashes losses to $148m for three months to 29 November but sales of $793m disappoint analysts
