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The Qwerty Keyboard Still Has a Lot to Offer Mid- to High-End Smartphones
The release of the BlackBerry Q10 marks an important return for company. In contrast to the Z10, which features a full-touch screen, the Q10 includes BlackBerry's well-known qwerty keypad. The company's last high-end device to feature this design was the BlackBerry ... Read more

Popularity of Mobile Platforms Coming at the Expense of Consoles
The Game Developers Conference took place in San Francisco at the end of March. The conference is the world's largest professional game industry event, with big names such as Facebook, Microsoft and Sony all involved. It bills itself as the primary forum for those involved i... Read more

Participation in Microsoft's 4Afrika Initiative Gives Chinese Player Greater Coverage
Earlier this month Microsoft launched the 4Afrika Initiative. The software company aims to invest $74 million over the next three years to support economic development in Africa. As part of the project Huawei has released a budget Windows Phone 8 device ... Read more

Easier Creation of Basic Apps Raises the Challenge of Search and Discovery
Recently I attended the BlackBerry Jam developer conference in Amsterdam. This event saw over 1,000 of the top BlackBerry developers in Europe getting together to learn about the new BlackBerry 10 platform and tools.
If I'm honest I had pretty low expectatio... Read more

Our Predictions for the First Major Trade Show of 2013
As our team prepares to make its annual pilgrimage to Las Vegas for International CES, it's an opportunity to reflect on what we can look forward to.
Although the convergence of mobile technology and mass-market consumer electronics has been much-hyped in previous years, we bel... Read more