AIRBUS GROUP USING BES12 TO SECURELY MANAGE ITS GLOBAL MULTI OS MOBILE FLEET

BlackBerry-SignageBlackBerry Limited (NASDAQ: BBRY; TSX: BB), a global leader in secure mobile communications, today announced that Airbus Group, a world leader in aeronautics, astronautics and defense, has once again renewed its confidence in BlackBerry by upgrading to BES®12, a multi-OS EMM solution by BlackBerry, to securely manage its global multi-OS mobile fleet. In recent years, Airbus Group has seen the needs and expectations of its employees evolve in terms of mobility. In order to remain ever more agile and relevant in a highly competitive environment, Airbus Group has chosen to support different mobility scenarios without compromising security. Airbus remains fully committed to improving communication and collaboration within the group. To succeed in this vision, Airbus Group needed an EMM solution that was secure, flexible and scalable. By choosing BES12, Airbus has confirmed both good partnership with BlackBerry and the ability of BES12 to support its IT requirements. This choice focused primarily on manageability and security needs which BES12 meets perfectly and which are the foundation for BlackBerry’s extensive portfolio of enterprise security, productivity, and communication and collaboration services. BES12 centralizes device management from a single command and control center, and seamlessly supports multiple mobile platforms, including iOS®, Android™ (including Android™ for Work and Samsung KNOX™ smartphones and tablets), Windows Phone® and BlackBerry®.

Source: AIRBUS GROUP ADOPTS BES12 TO SECURELY MANAGE ITS GLOBAL MULTI OS MOBILE FLEET – Press Releases

BlackBerry’s Priv is Using a Hardened Linux Kernel

Grsecurity® is an extensive security enhancement to the Linux kernel that defends against a wide range of security threats through intelligent access control, memory corruption-based exploit prevention, and a host of other system hardening that generally require no configuration. It has been actively developed and maintained for the past 14 years. Commercial support for grsecurity is available through Open Source Security, Inc.

Source: BlackBerry’s Android Slider Using Hardened Linux Kernel

BlackBerry Priv Specs, Price, Security and all you need to know!

BlackBerry has made a new phone that will run on the Android system, and it’s named the BlackBerry Priv. BlackBerry has had a tough time in the mobile world in recent years, but it seems it is about to make a comeback. Read on for what we know so far about the BlackBerry Priv price, release date, specs, features and more.

Source: BlackBerry Priv price, release date, specs and features – AndroidPIT

Blackberry Android QNX Hypervisor and More

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To say that BlackBerry is testing various implementations of Android on reference hardware, testing ARM, Exynos, Qualcomm and other SOC pairings to see how best to deliver their future hardware solutions, is not out of the realm of possibility. We’ve already seen BlackBerry (Secusmart) hardware and the Secusuite software portfolio ported to Android-based Samsung tablets with an IBM secure app container. To further tout the power of BES12, BlackBerry will likely make an incremental move and release Android-based devices.

However, if the implementation were to come by way of the QNX Hypervisor, which is a Type 1 hypervisor, it would function dissimilar to the Dalvik which is basically just an application running on BlackBerry 10 (Android Player). The hypervisor would allow a seamless and secure switch between the two environments, BlackBerry 10 and Android, and would, from a code perspective, be the closest to true compatibility and optimal performance.

Source: The Future of Android on BlackBerry

Rumors, Rumors and More Rumors.. BlackBerry takeover rumors, layoffs and Losing the Signal | CrackBerry.com

By Crackberry Bla1ze!

It has been a while since I’ve written a ‘From the Editor’s Desk’ post and I should probably write more of them, but to be honest I really need to feel pretty strongly about something in order to write them and the past few days have me a little fired up. With that out of the way, the past three days have been interesting for the BlackBerry world, made even more so when you consider the timing of everything, and some of it has me fired up. We’ve had a few new takeover rumors and BlackBerry has confirmed an unspecified number of layoffs along with a new common share purchase program. If that’s not enough, there were some rumblings about the possibility of BlackBerry using Samsung’s Exynos processors for some of their next-gen smartphones and to add even more to the mix there’s a new and dramatically titled book coming out about the “rise and fall of BlackBerry”, though that story is still ongoing.

Source: From the Editor’s Desk: BlackBerry takeover rumors, layoffs and Losing the Signal | CrackBerry.com

Sticking to the plan: Chen says BlackBerry smartphone business will be profitable again | CrackBerry.com

Chen says BlackBerry phones are the entry point for customers into the company’s security business. BlackBerry can still provide a secure backbone for other devices like iPhones and Android phones, but Chen says you get the most security with a BlackBerry phone. There are a lot of important customers that still need that level of security. “I can only make iPhone so much more secure, but I can’t make it as secure as a BlackBerry device,” Chen said. “If you look at the US Army, they’re still rolling out all BlackBerry. If I tell them there are no more phones, I lose that account. The question is how do you make phones profitable at the volume those people represent?”

Source: Sticking to the plan: Chen says BlackBerry smartphone business will be profitable again | CrackBerry.com

Why Apple Needs BlackBerry`s Technology

Apple Rumored To Be Interested In Buying BlackBerry Apple Inc. AAPL 0.14% , the world’s largest corporation, was rumored to be looking at BlackBerry Ltd BBRY 0.05% as a possible acquisition target. Needless to say, the rumor received a wide variety of reactions from Wall Street. “I think the play with BlackBerry is a partnership play, not at all an acquisition,” Global Equities Research analyst Trip Chowdhry told Benzinga. “Apple will welcome BlackBerry as an App Store partner. They can publish their security software on App Store and people can download it — no different from what [other companies] have done.” Cody Willard, chairman of Scutify (a financial social network) and Futr (a futuristic messaging app), thinks Apple could buy BlackBerry to speed up its effort to get into car dashboards. Sean Udall, CIO of Quantum Trading Strategies and author of The TechStrat Report, thinks Apple would only acquire BlackBerry if the world’s largest governments asked Apple to step up and make an offer.

Source: Weekly Tech Highlights: Apple’s Battery Division, Why Apple Needs BlackBerry And More – Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL), AOL Inc. (NYSE:AOL) | Benzinga

BlackBerry OS 10.3.2.500 leaks for BlackBerry Z30, Passport, Classic and Leap

BlackBerry OS 10.3.2.500 leaks for BlackBerry Z30, Passport, Classic and Leap

A new BlackBerry 10.3.2 build has been leaked for a range of devices powered with OS 10.

The leaked OS 10.3.2.500 has been released to a limited number of testers recently. Since BlackBerry Z30 shares similar upgrade files with Passport and Leap, the leaked version can be used to update those devices too, reports BBE which has posted the leaked files.

The leaked OS is in the form of .bar, Core OS and Radio files and currently there is no autoloader. But you can always create autoloaders if you know how to do it.

According to the folks at CrackBerry forum, the leaked OS is ‘buttery smooth’ and has the older swipe animation feature. Besides, its battery life is quite fine. However, the Android player seems to be slower and lags for most of the apks, and Fitbit call notifications are not working.

Other notable changes include fast boot timing and swipe up from lock screen back to original. There are a few hiccups too, such as the voice command not working properly and showing the wrong addresses when searching for locations in BlackBerry maps, confirms forum member, ezapper2.

Head over to the forum to know more about the fixes and changes in Blackberry OS 10.3.2.500. Given below are the download links for the leaked OS.

Download links

OS 10.3.2.500 .bar files for BlackBerry Passport

OS 10.3.2.500 Radio and Core OS for Z30

OS 10.3.2.500 apps, Core OS and radio for Z30

Do not use the beta firmware as a daily driver, as all the features might not function properly. Install the leaked firmware only if you are an advanced user and have a fair knowledge about the leaked OS.

via BlackBerry OS 10.3.2.500 leaks for BlackBerry Z30, Passport, Classic and Leap.

BlackBerry acquires WatchDox – The Most Secured File Sharing Service – BBin

It’s no surprise that BlackBerry is the most secured platform when it comes to the Internet and their latest acquisition of Israel’s WatchDox takes them to the next level by adding another service to their bag of online file storage. WatchDox provides users to leverage online storage space just like Box, Dropbox, iCloud, Microsoft’s OneDrive but with a security layer on top, which makes it more appealing than competitors. BlackBerry is said to acquire the 2008 born company for about $150 million last week(official news to hit later today).

via BlackBerry acquires WatchDox – The Most Secured File Sharing Service – BBin.