BBM for Android update lets you like posts, among other enhancements

You may or may not still be using BlackBerry’s BBM service. If you are using it on Android, the app has been updated with a number of new features. You can now like posts that appear on your feed and broadcast messages to different contacts in different categories. You also get the ability to delete chats directly.

Aside from that, you can also search for BBM chats, channels, groups, and contacts. BlackBerry also improved Privacy Control so you can edit messages and photos or retract them.

Source: Android Community | Download: Google Play Store (Free)

BBM comes to Apple Watch

BlackBerry Messenger (BBM) is coming to Apple Watch. Users of this venerable instant messaging service can continue to share voice notes and photos using the wearable app on the Apple Watch. In typical BlackBerry fashion, you get read receipts and delivered notices. Might this move spark a rennaissance for BBM on iOS? 

Source: Engadget

BlackBerry launching secure productivity bundle with Blend, BBM and VPN authentication

The other big announcement at the BlackBerry Classic event today was the launch of a secure productivity bundle for users. The subscription based bundle works for individual users within enterprises and gives them secure versions of BBM (BlackBerry Messenger), the new BlackBerry Blend for enterprise as well as VPN Authentication for a variety of devices. Pricing for Canada has yet to be confirmed.

Live from the BlackBerry Classic launch event in New York

Text and photos by Gadjo Cardenas Sevilla

New York -It's a red-letter day for BlackBerry today as they are set to launch the widely anticipated BlackBerry Classic smartphone. We're on the ground in downtown New York where the main event is taking place while satellite launch events are taking place in Frankfurt, Germany as well as in Singapore.

The BlackBerry Classic is the latest device sporting the BB10 OS but it also features many key functionalities that BlackBerry users have loved for years, it returns the popular 'belt' as well as the trackpad, while maintaining the QWERTY keyboard that's been BlackBerry's trademark all along.

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