Entries by Nicole Batac (11813)

Sunday
Aug172014

Apple discounts Beats by Dr. Dre by 10% until Aug. 23

Following Apple’s acquisition of Betas Electronics and Beats Music, Apple is holding a sale for Beats by Dr. Dre products at physical stores and on their official online store. The Beats products each get 10% off their prices until August 23. The over-ear headphones, in-ears, and speakers are all covered by the sale.

Source: 9to5Mac

Sunday
Aug172014

BBM for Windows Phone now out of beta

Just in case you haven’t noticed BlackBerry Messenger for Windows Phone is now out of beta. It was first introduced in July as a beta release for Windows Phone 8 users. Now, the app is officially up for download on Windows Phone Store. This version of the app (1.01) fixes any of the bugs found during beta and adds the prerequisite performance improvements. It will also supposedly load faster than before.

Saturday
Aug162014

Canadian Reviewer Weekly Roundup 8/10-8/16

Saturday
Aug162014

BlackBerry plans to release ultra-secure BBM to Android and iOS this year

BlackBerry wants to offer business users on Android and iOS with an even more secure messaging service before the year ends. BlackBerry exec Sunil Lalwani told The Hindustan Times that the company will begin offering BlackBerry Messenger Protected on both platforms for an annual fee of US$30 per device. BBM Protected was initially launched for users with BBOS devices running on BES 5 and BB10 users with gold licenses on BES10 that run on EEM-regulated Work Space mode only.

The messaging service is just like BBM but adds a latter of encryption that is shared exclusively by the sender and the recipient. It has a new random symmetric key for message encryption that means if one of your encryption keys gets compromised it won’t expose all your messages.

Source: BGR