Goodbye BlackBerry — South Africa's once-favourite phone
BlackBerry's legacy devices will no longer function reliably from 4 January 2022, as the company will decommission services for BlackBerry 7.1 OS and earlier, BlackBerry 10 software, as well as PlayBook OS 2.1 and earlier.
The company...
The rise of WhatsApp in South Africa — and how it can fall
WhatsApp didn’t stumble into dominance. It grew into the dominant force in mobile messaging over many years, and it could be overtaken by its competition if it repeats the mistakes of the platforms it defeated.
Even though WhatsApp...
South Africa's badass tech brands
The Sunday Times Generation Next awards has named this year’s coolest brands according to a survey conducting among SA youth
BBM for Android, iOS lightly affected by Heartbleed bug
BlackBerry has published a patch for its BlackBerry Messenger apps on Android and iOS after a critical bug in the widely used OpenSSL security software library, dubbed "Heartbleed" was found to affect the mobile messaging applications.
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WeChat boasts top spot in South African iTunes store
Citing the GlobalWebIndex report, WeChat said it is the fastest growing social platform in the world
BBM for Android, iPhone: how it will work
Android and iPhone devices don’t have BlackBerry PINs, but that’s not how BlackBerry Messenger works any more
WhatsApp vs BBM vs Mxit vs 2go in South Africa
New statistics from World Wide Worx and Fuseware reveal that competition among mobile instant messengers is hotter than ever
BBM for iOS, Android gets launch window
BlackBerry CEO Thorsten Heins said in a quarterly financial results call that BlackBerry Messenger for iOS and Android development is on track