[Corbu]

PR:
https://www.prnewswire.com/news-rele...301175811.html
BlackBerry Achieves NSA Approval for BlackBerry UEM

[tdovey]

Thanks Corbu, very interesting and excited for news again. So BlackBerry is not going to part with patents related to, or currently in use on the cyber security side of things. This looks to be more so our older "social" patents which is a space we are no longer involved. I would imagine this could lead to Facebook "settling" with BlackBerry.

[Redzinaldas]

https://financialpost.com/news/econo...uld-be-as-well

If pipelines, automakers, ketchup plants are worthy of public backing, so should BlackBerry's patents be

[EchoTango]

Since we're in a climate of handing out millions to anyone who asks for it, why doesn't Trudeau spend $450M to keep these patients in Canada and continue to receive the licensing revenues. How is this worse than paying out $125,266,500 to 2,304 female RCMP officers who received disparaging comments or felt uncomfortable on occasion during their careers.

[Dunt Dunt Dunt]

Since we're in a climate of handing out millions to anyone who asks for it, why doesn't Trudeau spend $450M to keep these patients in Canada and continue to receive the licensing revenues. How is this worse than paying out $125,266,500 to 2,304 female RCMP officers who received disparaging comments or felt uncomfortable on occasion during their careers.

But is BlackBerry selling the ones that generate the revenue... or the ones that they (BlackBerry and the firms they have hired) haven't found a way to monetize these last eight years of trying?

No way the value is only $450 with the amount of revenue being generated.... so it's not the revenue generating patents .

[FeitaInc]

BB's SP is on quite the tear these past few days. Wonder what is going on behind the scenes to drive the price action. is the Cylance for cloud offering coming along nicely?

or are there any rumours circulating that somebody is set to acquire them? somebody like a Cisco, Citrix or Microsoft perhaps?

[Dunt Dunt Dunt]

BB's SP is on quite the tear these past few days. Wonder what is going on behind the scenes to drive the price action. is the Cylance for cloud offering coming along nicely?

or are there any rumours circulating that somebody is set to acquire them? somebody like a Cisco, Citrix or Microsoft perhaps?

Got a bump last week with the first report of the sale of the IP, and again this week with the more reliable rumor.

But what's it really mean for long term value of the stock...

[EchoTango]

If they do sell their patents off, there will be a one-time bump in quarterly earnings along with significant goodwill write downs. Long term, this will only serve to reduce the overall street value of the company and trigger a corresponding share price adjustment. Since Blackberry can make a $1.4 Billion acquisition simply vanish into thin air, another $500M will in all probability not make any material difference to the financial health of the company.

[Chuck Finley69]

If they do sell their patents off, there will be a one-time bump in quarterly earnings along with significant goodwill write downs. Long term, this will only serve to reduce the overall street value of the company and trigger a corresponding share price adjustment. Since Blackberry can make a $1.4 Billion acquisition simply vanish into thin air, another $500M will in all probability not make any material difference to the financial health of the company.

BlackBerry Limited isn’t making the Cylance acquisition disappear as much as just show true value of the other assets not included as part of the Cylance acquisition.

It also doesn’t change the fact that Fairfax ownership and control structure of BlackBerry discourages anyone else from pursuing the acquisition of BlackBerry while still publicly traded.

[Corbu]

It would appear this PR (from June 2020) is beginning to materialize itself:
https://www.blackberry.com/us/en/com...0and%20provide

https://business.bell.ca/shop/medium...threat-defense

[Dunt Dunt Dunt]

BlackBerry Limited isn’t making the Cylance acquisition disappear as much as just show true value of the other assets not included as part of the Cylance acquisition.

It also doesn’t change the fact that Fairfax ownership and control structure of BlackBerry discourages anyone else from pursuing the acquisition of BlackBerry while still publicly traded.

I didn't get the sell of the patents as too me it would seem a valuable part of taking over BlackBerry.

But in the end it was an unknown, that minority shareholders would have pointed too and said "they are potentially worth billions". But sell them off for "real" street value and what's left is.... what there is. If Cylance doesn't turn things around... it will be much harder to argue the "value" of the company going forward.

[kellyweng88]

Sold a little under 40% of my BB holdings at these levels. Trying to minimize my losses.

Hopefully BB can continue to make a run. If this happens to hit $6+ I may just unload the rest of my shares at a loss (albeit at a much reduced loss than earlier this year)

[EchoTango]

Sold a little under 40% of my BB holdings are these levels. Trying to minimize my losses.

Hopefully BB can continue to make a run. If this happens to hit $6+ I may just unload the rest of my shares at a loss (albeit at a much reduced loss than earlier this year)

Welcome to the crazy perverse world of Blackberry investing !

[FeitaInc]

Have to say that I like this trend..

[rarsen]

General article with points of interest:

Artificial intelligence could be used to hack connected cars, drones warn security experts
https://www.zdnet.com/article/artifi...&cid=716503125
Just as the benefits to society of AI are very real, so is the threat of malicious use. Cybercriminals have always been early adopters of the latest technology and AI is no different. One of the reasons the UN, Europol and Trend Micro have released the report is in the hope that it'll be seen by technology companies and manufacturers and that they become aware of the potential dangers they could face – and work to solve problems before they become a major issue.

[FeitaInc]

just came across this test of anti-virus software.

As a shareholder in BB I can't say that I love that BB Cylance finished dead last. its good that Cylance appears to be performant, but if it fails on the security side, that kind of defeats the purpose.

[Dunt Dunt Dunt]

just came across this test of anti-virus software.

As a shareholder in BB I can't say that I love that BB Cylance finished dead last. its good that Cylance appears to be performant, but if it fails on the security side, that kind of defeats the purpose.

The problem is many of those are Security Suites - they use a combination of traditional and new methods to detect both files and threat activity. Cylance is one side of the coin, if your going to use it, you'll need to also install a more traditional Antivirus solution as well.

It's BlackBerry's problem across the board, they do some things great.... but your still going to need other vendors to fill in the holes in their offerings. And the really tough part is... Microsoft's "FREE" AV has gotten very good since they added their own ML along with their traditional signature scanning.

[EchoTango]

[QUOTE=FeitaInc;13560288]just came across this test of anti-virus software.

As a shareholder in BB I can't say that I love that BB Cylance finished dead last. its good that Cylance appears to be performant, but if it fails on the security side, that kind of defeats the purpose.

/QUOTE]

I'm skeptical of this list as it seems the most historically popular (and biggest) seem to have done very well.

It does roil that Cylace was deemed last notwithstanding the cutting edge AI technology imbedded in this product which one might assume would make for a very premium product. Heck, some of these more "superior" products are available for free and have been around since the very early days of virus attacks which when compared to new-build product which should make them largely boat anchors. I wonder what use cases they included in their assessment.....I'll bet they were more "traditional" forms of malware making it easier for the legacy providers to detect.

I'm thinking this is more of a targeted marketing piece then anything else.

[FeitaInc]

@EchoTango then somebody at BB (called mark Wilson) should pony up some dough.

[Corbu]

PR:
https://www.businesswire.com/news/ho...RdYOj2VdwnuKwa
AWS and BlackBerry Join Forces to Accelerate Innovation with New Intelligent Vehicle Data Platform

BlackBerry IVY will help automakers create personalized driver and passenger experiences and improve operations of cloud-connected vehicles with new BlackBerry QNX and AWS technology

SEATTLE & WATERLOO, Ontario--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Today, Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS), an Amazon.com, Inc. company (NASDAQ: AMZN), and BlackBerry Limited (NYSE: BB, TSX: BB), a worldwide leader in intelligent security software and services, announced a multi-year, global agreement to develop and market BlackBerry's Intelligent Vehicle Data Platform, IVY. BlackBerry IVY is a scalable, cloud-connected software platform that will allow automakers to provide a consistent and secure way to read vehicle sensor data, normalize it, and create actionable insights from that data both locally in the vehicle and in the cloud. Automakers can use this information to create responsive in-vehicle services that enhance driver and passenger experiences.

BlackBerry IVY addresses a critical data access, collection, and management problem in the automotive industry. Modern cars and trucks are built with thousands of parts from many different suppliers, with each vehicle model comprising a unique set of proprietary hardware and software components. These components, which include an increasing variety of vehicle sensors, produce data in unique and specialized formats. The highly specific skills required to interact with this data, as well as the challenges of accessing it from within contained vehicle subsystems, limit developers’ abilities to innovate quickly and bring new solutions to market. BlackBerry IVY will solve for these challenges by applying machine learning to that data to generate predictive insights and inferences, making it possible for automakers to offer in-vehicle experiences that are highly personalized and able to take action based on those insights.

BlackBerry IVY will support multiple vehicle operating systems and multi-cloud deployments in order to ensure compatibility across vehicle models and brands. It will build upon BlackBerry QNX’s capabilities for surfacing and normalizing data from automobiles and AWS’s broad portfolio of services, including capabilities for IoT and machine learning. BlackBerry IVY will run inside a vehicle’s embedded systems, but will be managed and configured remotely from the cloud. As a result, automakers will gain greater visibility into vehicle data, control over who can access it, and edge computing capabilities to optimize how quickly and efficiently the data is processed. With BlackBerry IVY’s integrated capabilities, automakers will be able to deliver new features, functionality, and performance to customers over the lifetime of their cloud-connected vehicles, as well as unlock new revenue streams and business models built on vehicle data.

For instance, BlackBerry IVY could leverage vehicle data to recognize driver behavior and hazardous conditions such as icy roads or heavy traffic and then recommend that a driver enable relevant vehicle safety features such as traction control, lane-keeping assist, or adaptive cruise control. IVY could then provide automakers with feedback on how and when those safety features are used, allowing them to make targeted investments to improve vehicle performance. Additionally, drivers of electric vehicles could choose to share their car’s battery information with third-party charging networks to proactively reserve a charging connector and tailor charging time according to the driver’s current location and travel plans. BlackBerry IVY could also provide insights to parents of teenage drivers who may choose to receive customized notifications based on insights from vehicle sensors when the number of passengers in the vehicle changes, when the driver appears to be texting, distracted, or not observing speed limits, or when the vehicle occupancy level rises above the parents’ desired safety threshold. Similarly, parents of infants could receive a reminder to engage the child safety lock when the vehicle detects a child in the rear seat.

BlackBerry IVY will enable automakers to compress the timeline to build, deploy, and monetize new in-vehicle applications and connected services across multiple vehicle brands and models. Instead of investing in one-off solutions that conform to the unique engineering of different vehicle models (as they do today), automakers using BlackBerry IVY will be able to leverage different types of data as common building blocks for new services that could work across a range of models. Automakers will be able to use the platform’s application programming interfaces (APIs) to share data and outputs with their software development teams, giving them the ability to innovate, while also protecting customer privacy and security by controlling whom can access vehicle and app data and at what level of detail.

In addition, BlackBerry IVY will make it easier for automakers to collaborate with a wider pool of developers to accelerate creation of new offerings that deliver improved vehicle performance, reduced costs for maintenance and repairs, and added convenience. For instance, by analyzing real-time performance data, automakers could recognize the first signs of potentially faulty parts, deploy code to identify affected vehicles, notify impacted drivers, and perform targeted recalls. Automakers will be able to remotely deploy and update the software from the platform’s Cloud Console (a web interface for managing BlackBerry IVY) to continuously improve the functionality of the system.

“Data and connectivity are opening new avenues for innovation in the automotive industry, and BlackBerry and AWS share a common vision to provide automakers and developers with better insights so that they can deliver new services to consumers,” said John Chen, Executive Chairman and CEO, BlackBerry. “This software platform promises to bring an era of invention to the in-vehicle experience and help create new applications, services, and opportunities without compromising safety, security, or customer privacy. We are pleased to expand our relationship with AWS to execute this vision and deliver BlackBerry IVY.”

“AWS and BlackBerry are making it possible for any automaker to continuously reinvent the customer experience and transform vehicles from fixed pieces of technology into systems that can grow and adapt with a user’s needs and preferences,” said Andy Jassy, CEO of Amazon Web Services, Inc. “Through this joint effort with BlackBerry, we will provide automakers with the insights, capabilities, agility, and speed they need to thrive in an increasingly connected world. As automakers seek to race ahead in their digital transformations, BlackBerry IVY empowers them to build their brands and set the standard for connected vehicle services across the automotive industry.”

To learn more about BlackBerry IVY and general availability, please visit https://blackberry.qnx.com/en/aws.

[Corbu]

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/black...130000177.html
BlackBerry and Amazon team up on vehicle data and software platform

Dec 1 (Reuters) - Canadian technology specialist BlackBerry and e-commerce titan Amazon have developed a cloud-based software platform designed to help automakers and suppliers standardize vehicle data and speed deployment of new revenue-generating features and services, the companies said on Tuesday.

BlackBerry and Amazon Web Services (AWS) said the new intelligent vehicle data platform, called IVY, will compress the time to build, deploy and monetize in-vehicle applications and connected services across multiple brands and models, making it easier for automakers to collaborate with a wider pool of developers to accelerate development of apps and services.

Carmakers have been reluctant so far to share with outside technology providers much of the data generated by their vehicles.

IVY is designed to complement and run simultaneously with new digital vehicle architectures developed by Volkswagen , General Motors and others.

The platform is built on BlackBerry’s QNX, a vehicle operating system in 175 million vehicles worldwide, according to John Wall, head of BlackBerry Technology Solutions.

“The biggest challenge that most carmakers have in getting applications in the vehicle or monetizing their data is that there is no standardized way to access the data,” Wall told Reuters.

One goal of BlackBerry and AWS is to establish IVY as a standard platform across the auto industry, as Apple and Google have done in mobile phones through their iOS and Android platforms.

Without that standardization, Wall said, automakers “can’t really establish an ecosystem” or leverage the broader community of app developers.

IVY is expected to be installed on the first production vehicles in model year 2023, said AWS executive Sarah Cooper.

BlackBerry and Amazon declined to say which companies will be the first to use IVY.

[Dunt Dunt Dunt]

[QUOTE=EchoTango;13560359]

I'm thinking this is more of a targeted marketing piece then anything else.

Same can be said of Gartner's Magic Quadrant.... in the end it's all part of the "game".

[rampagingpanda]

This is a HUGE deal, QNX backed with the might of Amazon.

Many thanks Corbu, great reporting as always.

[Dunt Dunt Dunt]

This is a HUGE deal, QNX backed with the might of Amazon.

Many thanks Corbu, great reporting as always.

Is it?

AWS and BlackBerry have collaborated on a number of other projects as well.... But it's hard to define of what value any of those collaborations have been worth to shareholders - in the present of near future.

Is this a 50/50 collaboration or a 1/99 collaboration?
Is IVY the future platform for cars, or will it go the way of so many other "projects" that AWS has started and ended.
My guess is looking at four or five years before any results are seen from this endeavor...


In the end I hoped AWS would be a potential buyer of BlackBerry. Cloud Computing and Networking is what they do, and adding the technology and patents that BlackBerry has in those areas, would seem to be a good fit. And buying BlackBerry for $4- $5 Billion would be easy for a company with $35 Billion in revenues (AWS, not Amazon).

[FeitaInc]

Wow BB SP +39% in pre-market.

Let’s see how the market opens, but if this holds then it seems like the market thinks this is quite a big deal.