The largest sheriff department in the nation is about to show their support of BlackBerry and BlackBerry 10 as they are now going to roll out BB10 devices to the employees, along with BES 10 deployment. Rolling out BlackBerry 10 devices to their staff will better equip them while on the go, and keep the [...]

Finally, some good news for the folks in Waterloo. Yesterday, Trend Micro announced that RIM’s BlackBerry 7 OS has been rated as the most secure mobile OS. Trend Micro released a report titled “Enterprise Readiness of Consumer Mobile Platforms which compared the top mobile platforms; Android 2.3, iOS 5, Windows Phone 7.5 and BlackBerry 7. [...]

This is why you should ALWAYS use a lock screen and/or remote wipe software. The security firm Symantec just released the results from their “Smartphone Honey Stick Project”, a project in which 50 smartphones, loaded with fake personal and corporate data were left in and around New York City, Washington D.C., Los Angeles, San Francisco and Ottawa. [...]

Today Apple released iOS 4.3.5 for most iOS devices to address a known security vulnerability, as well as follow-up to last weeks iOS 4.3.4, which addressed a security hole related to PDF support. The following message was included with the update: “iOS 4.3.5 Software Update Fixes a security vulnerability with certificate validation” iOS 4.3.5 is available [...]

I saw this as the “App of the Day” on Lifehacker a few days ago for all you Android fans. It is a really cool concept but, honestly, I only see it being a good download if the majority of people you know use Android devices…otherwise what’s the point? Anyway, the name of the app [...]

Just released video from the BBC shows RIM (Research In Motion) co-CEO Mike Lazaridis being interviewed by Rory Cellan-Jones, the BBC technology correspondent for the show “Click”. When asked about “problems with security” and “various arguments [RIM has] had with the Indian governments and a number of governments in the Middle East”, Lazaridis looks annoyed and says they have never had a [...]

Remember in mid-January I told you about and reviewed a new service called Tigits which assigns people temporary numbers they can use and dispose of at will? When I originally wrote about them I mentioned to you that, “currently text message receiving and sending is unavailable via a Tigits line but it is planned to be [...]

There’s a newly launched service to protect your privacy, currently only available in the Greater Toronto Area and rolling out to the rest of Canada later this year, and it is called Tigits. What is Tigits? Their self description reads “Tigits are a second, changeable, and totally anonymous number for your phone, so you can [...]

It has been barely 2 weeks since we sat down and spoke candidly to Ted Livingston about the sudden, viral growth of Kik Messenger and his plans as CEO to guide it going into 2011. He has some big ideas about the direction he will take it, with his loyal team by his side, but [...]