{"id":104563,"date":"2014-06-20T12:58:37","date_gmt":"2014-06-20T10:58:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=104563"},"modified":"2014-06-20T13:00:39","modified_gmt":"2014-06-20T11:00:39","slug":"bbm-for-windows-phone-launch-window","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/104563-bbm-for-windows-phone-launch-window.html","title":{"rendered":"BBM for Windows Phone launch window"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BlackBerry Messenger (BBM) for Windows Phone will launch during July 2014, <a href=\"http:\/\/crackberry.com\/bbm-arriving-windows-phone-july\" target=\"_blank\">CrackBerry reported<\/a>, citing an earnings call with BlackBerry CEO John Chen.<\/p>\n<p>BlackBerry announced in February that <a title=\"BBM heading to Windows Phone and Nokia X platforms\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/97485-bbm-heading-to-windows-phone-and-nokia-x-platforms.html\">a Windows Phone version<\/a> of its popular instant messaging platform was on its way after revealing that it will be available on the Nokia X Android-based smartphone.<\/p>\n<p>The expected launch on Windows Phone follows the <a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/89493-bbm-for-android-iphone-arrives.html\">arrival of BBM on Android and iPhone<\/a> in October 2013.<\/p>\n<p>BBM\u2019s arrival on Android and iPhone was not a smooth affair, but the abortive launch will hopefully not be repeated on Windows Phone.<\/p>\n<h3 id=\"related\">Related BBM news<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/security\/100622-bbm-for-android-ios-lightly-affected-by-heartbleed-bug.html\"><strong>BBM for Android, iOS lightly affected by Heartbleed bug<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/97485-bbm-heading-to-windows-phone-and-nokia-x-platforms.html\"><strong>BBM heading to Windows Phone and Nokia X platforms<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/business\/96471-blackberry-head-of-bbm-business-leaves-company.html\"><strong>BlackBerry: head of BBM business leaves company<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/92475-bbm-channels-launched.html\"><strong>BBM Channels launched<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/90133-new-bbm-for-android-released.html\"><strong>New BBM for Android released<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The launch of BBM on Windows Phone has received a window, according to media reports<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":90591,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[36,18254,123,653,1333],"class_list":["post-104563","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-software","tag-active","tag-blackberry-messenger-bbm","tag-microsoft","tag-nokia","tag-windows-phone"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104563"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=104563"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104563\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/90591"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=104563"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=104563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}