Category: News

  Right from the first look, the BlackBerry Passport design has been turning heads. From enthusiastic media and user reviews to various awards earned, it’s clear the BlackBerry Passport has made a huge impact with its unique form factor. Late last month, the BlackBerry Passport proved its design excellence in the most important competition for product design, Red Dot Product Design 2015. The Red Dot: Best of the Best is awarded for innovative design and is the highest individual award in the Red Dot Award: Product Design category. Only the…

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BlackBerry Limited, a global leader in mobile communications, today announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire WatchDox Ltd. to further enhance BlackBerry’s best-in-class mobile security and give enterprises unmatched control over their files even after data leaves the corporate network. WatchDox’s technology will be offered as a value-added service that complements BlackBerry’s Enterprise Mobility Management (EMM) portfolio, and will be available with BES12, a multi-OS EMM solution. Waterloo, Ontario – Terms of the transaction were not disclosed.  Completion of the transaction is subject to customary closing conditions.…

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The Board of Directors of Telenor Group (Telenor) today announces the appointment of Mr. Sigve Brekke as the company’s new Group President and Chief Executive Officer. He will succeed Mr. Jon Fredrik Baksaas by 17 August 2015. (Oslo, 12 May 2015) Sigve Brekke is the Executive Vice President and Head of Telenor Group’s Asia operations. He joined Telenor in 1999 and has held several executive positions in the company since then. “Sigve Brekke has a solid track-record as the Head of Telenor’s Asia operations and part of Group Management since August…

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Google announced Tuesday that its Android One program is making its debut in Turkey, marking the program’s first presence in Europe. Android One is Google’s initiative to get as many inexpensive internet-connected smartphones to as many hands as possible in developing countries where billions of people still don’t have access to the internet. It also doesn’t hurt in Google’s efforts to expand its sphere of influence to people that would normally never have the opportunity to connect to its internet services like Google Search, Chrome, Google Now, and its myriad…

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Historic Russian musical theater entertains new global audiences with livestreamed performances to any mobile device using the IBM hybrid cloud ARMONK, N.Y. and ST. PETERSBURG, Russia – 29 Apr 2015: Russia’s Mariinsky Theatre has selected IBM (NYSE:IBM) to build a hybrid cloudsolution that enables it to provide global theater enthusiasts with access to live streaming video performances on the web, tablets or other mobile devices. Debuting classic ballet standards such as Swan Lake, Sleeping Beauty andThe Nutcracker, the preeminent Mariinsky Theatre has been entertaining audiences of all ages from across 150 countries with some of the world’s best opera,…

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Mark Hurd says another third of software will move to cloud by October Oracle has revealed it wants 95 per cent of its products to be operating from the cloud in the next six months. At the moment, 65 per cent of the company’s software offerings are cloud-based, with the remainder designed to run in on-premise environment. However, times are changing and Oracle has realised that it needs to shift almost everything into cloud environments, aiming to offer subscriptions by the time its OpenWorld conference comes around in October. Co-Chief…

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The company is inviting patent owners to sell it ownership of ideas Google has opened up a patent marketplace, encouraging patent owners to sell the company their patents without the hassle, time or distractions from potential trolls. Allen Lo, deputy general counsel for Patents at Google said in a blog post: “Patent owners sell patents for numerous reasons (such as the need to raise money or changes in a company’s business direction). “Unfortunately, the usual patent marketplace can sometimes be challenging, especially for smaller participants who sometimes end up working with patent…

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Facebook today launched 11 interactive guides and how-tos to help users secure their social information. The new guides, which can be found on the Facebook Privacy Basics site, are designed to help users understand the best ways to create a strong password, how to handle suspicious messages and what to do if someone takes over the user’s account. Available in 40 languages, the guides also touch on how the world’s largest social network responds togovernment requests for user information and the steps Facebook takes to protect your information. “Since last November, millions of people have visited…

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AVG unveiled Invisibility Glasses, a new product from its Innovation Labs, in Barcelona. I have to admit that I imagined a different kind of product when I read its name, thinking of a product that would make the wearer invisible or one that would automatically remove objects or people in your sight when you use the glasses. Invisibility Glasses serve a different purpose though. They have been designed by AVG to protect your privacy when you are in public. Depending on where you live, surveillance cameras may be a common…

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