BlackBerry Ltd BBRY continued its bullish momentum on Monday when the company announced a new deal with Ford Motor Company F to expand the use of the QNX operating system in Ford automobiles. Following Monday’s 8.7 percent gain, BlackBerry shares are now up more than 63 percent in 2017. The ... Read More »

Following an earlier report that Apple hired former BlackBerry employee and founder of the company’s QNX operating system, a new Bloomberg story today details Apple’s expansion of an R&D facility in Canada housing dozens of engineers that appear to be working on car related software. The report points to many hires coming from BlackBerry’s QNX ... Read More »

Welcome back to our weekly “Windows 10 news recap” series where we go over the top stories of the past week in the world of Microsoft’s latest operating system. Let’s get started. Nearly 50% of Steam gamers prefer Windows 10 Microsoft is continuing to attract gamers to Windows 10, as ... Read More »

Saudi Arabia said it intercepted two ballistic missiles fired from Yemen as the Kingdom-led coalition continued its second day of airstrikes. Peace talks brokered by the United Nations recently broke down and the Saudi Arabian coalition resumed airstrikes on Tuesday against Houthi rebels believed to be supported by the Iranian ... Read More »

Medals continued to elude India for the second successive day at the 31st Rio Olympics as shooter Heena Sidhu and the women’s archery team failed to impress, while the women’s hockey team managed to hold Japan for a draw here on Sunday.   Sidhu missed out of the race to ... Read More »

While Microsoft is not dropping support for its mobile OSes, the company has, at least temporarily, switch focus to other areas, and it shows. The latest Kantar report on smartphone market share is in, and it, unsurprisingly, has depict a generally bleak picture about Windows phone, despite flattering numbers for ... Read More »