BlackBerry Classic launch event will be streamed live tomorrow

BlackBerry is going to stream tomorrow's BlackBerry Classic launch event which takes place in downtown New York. The feed begins starting at 10:00 am EST and interested parties can visit http://live.blackberry.events to watch the live event. BlackBerry will also have the latest news from the day on their Business Blog as well as the BlackBerry Newsroom.

Canadian Reviewer will cover the event live on this space as well as on Twitter at the @Creviewer handle. It should be an exciting Wednesday.

BlackBerry sends out invites to Passport launch event

BlackBerry has a big event coming on September 24 and from what we can derive from the invite above it is all about business and the Passport smartphone and quite possibly the Classic as well. We will be covering the Toronto event live starting at 8:00 AM on the 24th to see what is revealed in this, the biggest BlackBerry event since the launch of BB10 and the Z10.

The Apple Beat: Apple's 2013 iPhone strategy

Text and photos by Gadjo Cardenas Sevilla

Cupertino, CA - Apple released the new iPhones here this week at an intimate media event in their Apple Campus auditorium.

Apple CEO Tim Cook set things up by announcing that there were now over 700 million iOS devices in the market today and then passed the stage to senior VP of software engineering Craig Federighi, who ran through iOS 7.

iOS 7 is expected to be available for free to users on September 18 and will work for iPhone 4 and later, iPad 2 and later, iPad mini and iPod touch (fifth generation). Some features may not be available on all products.

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The Apple Beat: Stage is set for next evolutionary phase for iPhone and iOS

By Gadjo Cardenas Sevilla

Any Apple launch event easily obscures the majority of technology launch events happening at the same time. Events focused on a new iPhone are easily the most anticipated and widely covered.

How crazy does it get? While watching the local news on CP24 this morning, the hosts were discussing the invitations sent by Apple to select media for the upcoming September 10 launch to be held in Cupertino. Most smartphone launch events will never gain mention in a morning news show, but an Apple invitation to an upcoming event is big enough news.

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