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Scanning for Good: 5 Reasons QR Codes Are a Safe Option for Nonprofits

NetWits

In addition to web URLs, QR codes can contain SMS messages, plain text, contact info, event invites, Google Maps locations, YouTube videos, or social content. iPhone, Android, and BlackBerry users can download one of many apps that will scan not only QR codes, but many types of bar codes. If you have BlackBerry Messenger 5.0,

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Introhive raises $100M for AI-powered sales tools to help companies build ‘relationship graphs’

TechCrunch

In the case of Glidden, he and Stewart Walchli were at RIM (the old parent of BlackBerry), which had acquired a previous startup of theirs called Chalk Media. “We ran into big problems in the first years because there were so many potential systems to tap into, homegrown or otherwise, for certain info.

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Ghost Security emerges from stealth to defend APIs and apps from attackers

TechCrunch

Ultimately, they’re what delivers essential info to employees and customers. Department of Homeland Security’s control systems security program and a chief product architect at BlackBerry. Apps and APIs are at the core of organizations. But increasingly, apps and APIs have become attack vectors.

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How to Clear Critical Data From Your Cell Phone Before You Get Rid of It

Tech Soup

” Preston Gralla’s piece provides the general methods used to clear Android, iOS, Windows Phone, and BlackBerry devices. They host a form where you can search on your phone make and model (no personal info requested on this site) to get instructions. It also talks a bit about clearing data from PC hard drives.

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NSO’s Pegasus spyware: here’s what we know

The Verge

Wait, how can Pegasus get all that info? At the time, the costs were reportedly $650,000 to hack 10 iPhone or Android users, or $500,000 to infiltrate five BlackBerry users. In other cases, Pegasus has reportedly relied on users to click phishing links that then deliver the Pegasus payload.

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Inspiring Entrepreneurs: Ted Livingston’s rollercoaster ride as CEO of hit messaging startup Kik

The Next Web

More info can be found at LenovoInspireMe.com , where you can enter our competition to win the trip of a lifetime. _. In my third co-op term I got a job at RIM (now BlackBerry), I started in May 2007, about a month before the iPhone initially came out. Kik Music: iTunes for your BlackBerry. Going cross-platform.

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iPhone owners: Anyone solved the multi-Mac dilemma?

Judi Sohn

This is something I still miss about the BlackBerry. I’ll meet folks on my trip, enter their contact info into my phone and have no way of transferring that info to my laptop until I get home. 10 reasons I still love my Blackberry even though it isn’t an iPhone So if rumors are to be believed, the Blackberry 9000.