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The BlackBerry executive team is at Mobile  World Congress , this week, underscoring their strategy with a renewed focus on core strengths in security, productivity, communications and collaboration. There’s a lot to cover, including newly announced enterprise solutions, partnerships, and smartphone models that enable enterprises and individuals to maximize their productivity, communication and collaboration. In an overview, John Chen,  Executive Chairman  and CEO at BlackBerry had this to say: “We have engineered a  new strategy  to stabilize the company and restore our customers’ confidence in BlackBerry. The announcements made during Mobile World Congress demonstrate that BlackBerry is looking to the future and bringing solutions to market that matter most to our customers. These secure solutions emphasize our strengths in enterprise mobility, while empowering end users to become more productive with technologies that drive communications and collaboration.”

Be a Big Shot at work & at play Both Microsoft and National Geographic benefit from these men’s creativity Written by: By Michelle Feder Outside of work, Nitish Kumar Meena (a UX Designer in  Visual Studio ), and Noah Dyvadheenam, (a  Software Development Engineer  in Test on the Windows team), are avid photographers. Last year, they became acquainted at a  special event , an art exhibition at Microsoft India. What made this art show particularly special? At this debut “Arty Party,” the first of its kind, all the art showcased was made  by   Microsoft employees . Noah and Nitish showed their photos at the event. Both passionate  about photography , they became friends. They began going on photo-walks, where they shared their interest and learned from each other. On their first outing, Noah took Nitish to do some street photography. “While I was busy clicking a watch repairman,” Noah says, “Nitish took a picture of the two subjects engrossed in the

Written by: Mohamed Mansour,  Software Development Engineer , Microsoft Silicon Valley Mohamed Mansour is a Software Engineer at Bing, focusing on user data and personalization. Here’s what Mohamed loves about his role and what keeps him at  Microsoft : The team. When finding a job, one of the most important things is the team, and the amount of freedom you will be given. When I heard we had an  innovation team  here, I was intrigued what that meant. Everyone could be part of it and work with other bright coworkers to create something impactful. That kind of culture, balance between hacking and producing, is what I love. Before Microsoft, I was doing a lot of hacks around Social Data by creating extensions to improve  user experience  that many people loved. But they all went down because of unsupported APIs, which was frustrating because I wanted to create new and unique experiences, which I deeply believe is the correct way. Over two million people downloaded

As sales growth slows and prices fall, Apple is expected to keep skimming the cream. FORTUNE -- The heyday of smartphone sales is over, according to an  IDC report issued this week. The U.S.-based  market research firm  expects growth in worldwide smartphone shipments, which approached 40% last year, to slow to less than 20% in 2014 and then within a few years to shrink to single digits: 8.3% in 2017 and 6.2% in 2018. For a company like Apple ( AAPL ), which depends on smartphone sales for more than half of its revenue and whose share of shipments has fallen below 15%, that's  bad news , right? Not necessarily. Although IDC predicts that smartphone growth over the next four years will mostly be in price-conscious developing markets, and that sales growth in Apple's strongholds -- the U.S. and Europe -- has already slowed to single digits, there is a silver lining for Apple. It's represented by the red line in the attached IDC graphic. Apple's competi

Americans used smartphone and tablet apps more than PCs to access the Internet last month -- the first time that has ever happened. Mobile devices  accounted for 55% of Internet usage in the United States in January. Apps made up 47% of Internet traffic and 8% of traffic came from mobile browsers, according to data from comScore, cited Thursday by research firm Enders Analysis. PCs clocked in at 45%. Although total  Internet usage  on mobile devices has previously exceeded that on PCs, this is the first time it's happened for app usage alone. The shift follows  a freefall in PC sales , which suffered their worst decline in history last year. Smartphone adoption, meanwhile, increased 39%, acording to  research firm  IDC. This trend will likely continue thanks to improved  user experience  on mobile apps and the expansion of  high-speed 4G access , said Andrew Lipsman, vice president of marketing and insights at comScore   ( SCOR ) . As of January, 55% of American a

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Yahoo  is hosting an Android Tech Talk on March 20. The news comes  from Jean-Baptiste Quéru , former AOSP lead at Google and current Yahoo  employee . He’ll do a short presentation, focusing on architecture, but there will be other speakers as well. The event will be held in the New  York office  and is invite-only. There’s  limited space  for the event, so better sign up quick if you want to go. Here’s the link of  sign-up form . (https://docs.google.com/forms/d/11tXTw_XE0Kq4SKVIUEFVbsaXA4Z8uQACQYI9GGBdP4Y/viewform) Other than JBQ, Yahoo’s Mobile & Emerging Products Team will be there possibly  giving presentations themselves. There’s also a strong possibility of a coding competition (with prizes) and the certainty of tacos, music and drinks. So, what’s this talk about? JQB says “ This is also a good time to have an up-to-date resume ready ” and the sign-up form does ask for plenty of details on your experience in  Android   app development . Other than semi-stealth

Those of you using the Facebook Messenger on Windows probably got the same message as myself this morning. According to the notification, the Messenger will stop working on Monday, March 3. There is no explanation why Facebook decided to kill its standalone messenger app, but it isn’t unexpected. The Facebook Messenger installer for Windows has disappeared completely from Facebook’s website a while ago. Even its Help articles on the website were hard to find, so it was clear back then Facebook will be dropping support for the tool in the future. Well, it is time. The app will stop working on March 3. The help section is available now and explains how to uninstall the Messenger off your PC.

Microsoft has issued an update for  Skype  on  Windows Phone  bringing the app to version 2.16.0.266. Available in the Windows Phone Store, the new Skype version fixes bugs and introduces slight improvements in the sign up/sign in process for users. Now, first-time Skype users will have no choice but to register with the same  Microsoft account  that they’re currently using on their phone. Anther minor improvement is the introduction of the typing indicator icon whenever someone is writing you. Another less stalker-ish improvement is the option to mark new messages as read, so they don’t bug you. Naturally , there are also a couple of  bugs  squashed  under the hood  of the popular voice calling and messaging app, but Microsoft has just listed them as “general fixes”.

Google targets $50 entry price tag for Project Ara smartphone According to a  report  in  Time , Google’s project Ara  smartphone  could arrive in early 2015 with an entry price tag  of $50. The search giant  retained the team  behind the project when it  sold Motorola to Lenovo last month. The affordable price is said to include the most basic setup with Wi-Fi, but no  cellular  connection. Additional modules will cost extra. Multiple models may be available when the device is launched. Google’s  Advanced Technology  and Projects (ATAP) group told  Time  that Project Ara will come in three different sizes which will cover everything from a pocket-friendly device to a full-blown phablet. Size of the devices will reportedly not be customizable. As expected, Project Ara will be built around an endoskeleton which will be supplied by Google. This way, the search giant will be able to maintain tight control over the platform. According to the report, the  prototype  of a