BARCELONA — BlackBerry phones with their physical keyboards were around years before the iPhone emerged in 2007. Yet, BlackBerry devices today command less than 1% of the world’s smartphone market. Under a licensing deal with BlackBerry of Canada announced last year, TCL Communication of China on Saturday announced another physical keyboard smartphone model called the…
The new BlackBerry KEYone smartphone, unveiled Saturday, is the first smartphone to carry the brand that doesn’t come from BlackBerry. It will go on sale globally in April, said Nicolas Zibell, CEO of TCL Communication, the phone’s manufacturer and licensee of the brand, at a launch event in Barcelona on the eve of Mobile World…
Last year Google announced a new app called Spaces with a simple goal: simplify the way we share things with people online. Sort of like a virtual room where you could connect with people to engage in specific topic of conversation, the experimental service was one of many in Google’s catalogue that failed to gain…
Uber is dismissing allegations that it stole trade secrets from self-driving car rival Waymo, calling them “a baseless attempt to slow down a competitor.” “We look forward to vigorously defending against them in court,” the company said in an email on Friday. The day before, Waymo, a spin-off from Google’s self-driving car initiative, filed a…
Microsoft has largely invalidated one of Windows 10’s signature concessions to corporate customers, said Gartner analysts who recommended that enterprises reconsider running the operating system’s most stable and static edition. “Microsoft has clarified support plans for LTSB, highlighting restrictions and caveats that could make this an unviable strategy,” wrote Stephen Kleynhans and Michael Silver in…
If all you need is a portable laptop that’ll easily handle streaming video, browsing the web, and chatting on Skype, you’re in luck. Right now, the Microsoft Store is offering the 256GB version of the Asus ZenBook Flip for just $500. This price matches the lowest we’ve seen for this 13.3-inch 2-in-1 convertible, and currently undercuts…
A Twitter video of a smoking iPhone 7 Plus has gone viral, prompting Apple to investigate. On Friday, Apple said that it was working with Brianna Olivas, who shared the video of her iPhone 7 Plus after it “blew up,” to try to find out the cause of the explosion. Olivas wrote that her rose…
At long last, Nougat is coming to Galaxy S7 and S7 Edge phones—at least, those from Sprint and AT&T. Nougat is also rolling out to T-Mobile’s LG Stylo 2. Meanwhile, Google may have identified an annoying bug that was vexing some Pixel owners. Each week, we round up all the major software updates to hit…
Google’s Project Zero team has disclosed a potential arbitrary code execution vulnerability in Internet Explorer because Microsoft has not acted within Google’s 90-day disclosure deadline. This is the second flaw in Microsoft products made public by Google Project Zero since the Redmond giant decided to skip this month’s Patch Tuesday and postpone its previously planned…
The new chairman of the U.S. Federal Communications Commission will seek a stay on privacy rules for broadband providers that the agency just passed in October. FCC Chairman Ajit Pai will ask for either a full commission vote on the stay before parts of the rules take effect next Thursday or he will instruct FCC…