What Matters for BlackBerry is What Matters to Users

At this week's Computerworld Premier 100 conference in Tucson, I asked many of the IT leaders whether their companies will use the coming BlackBerry Z10 smartphone or its qwerty cousin, the Q10. I had done a review of the Z10 and found the underlying BlackBerry 10 OS to be very good. Based on my experience, I thought there might be some genuine interest.

Blackberry 10 Gets Its First Software Update

Despite only having been released a month ago, Blackberry announced on its blog that it already updated its software to version 10.0.10.85. While it’s really quite soon for a new version, it’s a good sign on the company’s part, which cites user feedback as its jumping off point for implementing the changes, five of which it pointed out on its blog as being the most significant.

RI Testing Ground for BlackBerry Money

The Canadian-based smartphone manufacturer, BlackBerry, has chosen Indonesia as a testing ground for its first-ever mobile money service, BlackBerry Messenger Money (BBM Money), which premiered in the country on Tuesday.

In a pilot project conducted in cooperation with Bank Permata, users will be able to transfer money to their contacts over the BlackBerry Messenger (BBM) service, executives of both companies said in interviews.

Google Exec Posts Photos Taken With Nexus 10

Google's Vic Gundotra is having a nice time trying out some new hardware during his beach vacation. At least that's the view from his profile on Google+, where he posted two pictures taken with something called the "Nexus 10."

There currently is no product with that name, but it's been rumored that Google will introduce a new Nexus tablet at the company's event on Monday morning. Also, Korean site Seeko on Thursday posted images of what appears to be a manual for the tablet.

The photos Gundotra posted have a resolution of 2,048 x 1,536 (3.1 megapixels), but that's simply the maximum resolution for photos uploaded to Google+ via the service's instant upload, and not necessarily the resolution of the camera on board the device.

This isn't the first time Gundotra — Google's senior vice president of engineering who and the key executive behind Google+ — has tipped a new product or service on his Google+ feed. Earlier this month he posted a photo taken with Snapseed, an app made by Nik software, which Google acquired last month. But the Snapseed app for iOS didn't have the ability to export to Google+. Sure enough, an Android preview appeared last week (and has been taken down).

At Google's Monday event, the company is expected to reveal the Nexus 10 tablet — a larger version of its Nexus 7 tablet — along with Android 4.2 "Key Lime Pie" software. There may also be a new Nexus smartphone made by LG.

What would you like to see in a 10-inch Google Nexus tablet? Let us know in the comments.

Image courtesy of Google / Article source from : Mashable