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Blackberry and Samsung have made it through the first round of testing for use in DoD (Department of Defense) networks. For Blackberry this is something of a return, but it establishes that their new Blackberry 10 OS is up to scratch for the DoD. For Samsung this is a first for them although the OS is a version of Android called Knox. Knox is a hardened version of Android that Samsung created to specifically address the security needs of enterprise users.

According to Blackberry consumers will become tired of tablets in the next five years. Now, considering the massive growth that the tablet market has had over the past 2-3 years that might sound a little off the mark. To be perfectly honest we thought the claim was a little unusual when we first heard it as well. However Blackberry is not the only company that is foreseeing a future after the tablet has run its course. Not that long ago Gabe Newell said that he felt that touch enabled devices like the tablet were a transition device which would have a limited life span. He did not know what the next step in the evolution is but he was pretty convinced that touch was not going to stay the standard for long.

BlackBerry has announced prices and date for the start of sales of their Q10 smartphone in the U.S. market. BlackBerry Q10 is second company's smartphone running BlackBerry 10 (after the current model Z10), and with physical keypad remains loyal to the original BlackBerry design.

New software development package for BlackBerry 10.1 points to a number of news that are expected in the new version of BlackBerry operating system for mobile devices.

Mike Lazaridis, one of RIM's founders, is leaving the company. He stepped down from CEO duty 15 months ago, and was succeeded by Thorstein Heins. Lazaridis founded the company Research In Motion back in 1984 and was CEO until last year. On the occasion of announcement that he will leave the company on May 1st, he said that he believes he left the company good hands. On the other hand, Heins says he admires Mike on all the achievements and vision that helped in achieving the company's goals.

BlackBerry regularly praises growing number of applications for BlackBerry 10, a mobile platform on which their success very directly depends. However, skeptics say that these are artificially inflated numbers in which the company adds the application for Android that support execution within the emulator built-in BlackBerry’s new mobile OS. Of the 70,000 applications that were supposedly launched in parallel with the BlackBerry 10, around 40% of them are intended for emulation mode, which is quite a lot, especially when you take into account that they work noticeably slower and worse than native applications, making them quite unusable.

BlackBerry sent out a report about the growing variety of applications for the BlackBerry 10 platform. According to the official statement, the owners of BlackBerry 10 devices now got on their hands over 100,000 applications within the BlackBerry World.

Blackberry has released the first software update for the BlackBerry 10 operating system. An upgrade is available to owners of BlackBerry Z10 devices and brings many software enhancements that the company has implemented based on the feedback and wishes of the users.

It looks like sales of the BlackBerry Z10 smartphone are not what the company formerly known as RIM had hoped for. According to the analyst research house Cannacord Genuity and Pacific Crest, which gathered data from stores and distributors, BlackBerry has sold only 300,000 Z10 devices. This figure should be slightly larger at the end of the company's fiscal year which ends in March, but not significantly so.

Vertu Ti is the new luxury unit from this manufacturer. This is the first model with Android, and comes with a whooping price is $9,600 just for the Starter Edition. And what’s the most interesting; this phone is not best at anything. For those of you that are not familiar with Vertu they are a company that makes outlandish and impractical luxury phones. Originally these were Blackberry only, but now the luxury company is moving into new waters.