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Ottawa Business Journal
April 19, 2018
A group of Carleton University students is working with Transport Canada and BlackBerry QNX to devise ways of thwarting potential cyberattacks against self-driving vehicles. Richard Yu, a professor at Carleton's School of Information Technology, is leading the three-year project. Yu, who received aÃâà...
Sanvada Tech News (blog)
April 19, 2018
Embattled BlackBerry, now known as BlackBerry QNX, is pushing to dominate futuristic autonomous cybersecurity systems. According to the company's Chief executive officer, John Chen, it is re-inventing itself in order to fend off potential competitors. “We want to be the operating system for the car, period,”Ãâà...
Motherboard
April 13, 2018
Recovery has been slow and measured, beginning with the 2010 acquisition of Ottawa-based software company QNX. At the time of acquisition, QNX was owned by Harman International, the makers of Harman-Kardon and JBL speaker systems—as well as a quiet giant in automotive infotainment.
Ottawa Business Journal
April 3, 2018
Taking centre stage in the city's autonomous vehicle development is BlackBerry, as the firm's QNX division in Kanata attempts to pull ahead of the pack as a leader in the automotive software industry. “It's a rebirth of the automobile,” says Grant Courville, BlackBerry QNX's head of product management forÃâà...
autoevolution
April 1, 2018
Remember when smartphones had physical buttons and BlackBerry was the undisputed leader of the gang? That era is long gone, with the first-ever iPhone responsible for the shift towards iOS (and Android from 2008). Even the Canadian phonemaker decided to embrace Android, with BB now a shadowÃâà...
Financial Post
March 28, 2018
There's a good chance the garage at Blackberry Ltd.'s QNX headquarters in Ottawa will be empty when a snowstorm hits. The three slate-grey cars that normally reside in the garage (really more of a showroom crossed with a computer lab) — a Jeep and Mercedes, both wrapped in matte vinyl, and aÃâà...
ComputerWeekly.com
March 22, 2018
BlackBerry's Certicom Elliptical Curve Cryptography provides security for internet-connected devices, while QNX is its real-time embedded operating system. Jaguar's first ECU project will be a next-generation infotainment system. “Working with BlackBerry will enable us to develop the safe and secureÃâà...
The Verge
March 15, 2018
“The next leg of our growth is with auto,” Chen said in that interview, which coincided with news of a deal between BlackBerry and Baidu to jointly develop self-driving vehicle technology utilizing BlackBerry's QNX platform. QNX will serve as “the foundation for Baidu's Apollo autonomous driving openÃâà...
Thinknum Media (blog)
March 12, 2018
For instance, BlackBerry's QNX software platform was selected by 10 automotive suppliers in the last-reported quarter. The software specialist now counts the top three automotive component suppliers -- Bosch, Denso, and Magna -- as its clients. This follows BlackBerry's recently announced partnership with Qualcomm forÃâà...
Frisco Fastball
March 2, 2018
The Software & Services segment offers enterprise software and services, including mobile-first security, productivity, collaboration, and end-point management solutions for the Enterprise of Things through the BlackBerry Secure platform; BlackBerry technology solutions, such as BlackBerry QNX, Certicom,Ãâà...
Seeking Alpha
March 1, 2018
Multiple complaints of BlackBerry powered infotainment systems freezing-up and making the whole infotainment system unusable. A mission-critical operating system needs to isolate crashing software or defective hardware and otherwise keep running. QNX is going to require more work before it can beÃâà...
The Motley Fool Canada
February 27, 2018
The first is its QNX operating system. It already has great deals with companies such as Ford Motor Company (NYSE:F), whereby Ford uses the operating system in its cars. BlackBerry has become a tier-one partner with Ford, with some BlackBerry engineers moving over to Ford to work on integrating theÃâà...
Driving
February 22, 2018
So, in order to provide some answers that consumers keep posing on the topic, we sat down recently with Grant Courville of BlackBerry's subsidiary QNX. Courville is a senior director at BlackBerry QNX's Automotive and Embedded division and a self-professed car nut. BlackBerry QNX is Canada's leaderÃâà...
Seeking Alpha
February 15, 2018
The bootloops came because of an OTA (over-the-air) update enabled by QNX. And they affect functions beyond infotainment in spite of QNX. Fiat Chrysler was already a sure future loss for QNX. This might hasten it. It just adds to the massive QNX exodus we're seeing being announced left and right.
Seeking Alpha
February 12, 2018
Apple's team staffed with some of BlackBerry's best, including one of the creators of QNX. What this means ... As you may or may not know, BlackBerry's automotive operating system, QNX, is found in a staggering 60 million vehicles powering everything from electronic control units to in-dash infotainment.
The Motley Fool Canada
December 31, 1999
This past week, the Canadian company announced a partnership with Jaguar Land Rover to licence the company's QNX software for the in-car systems ... Facebook Inc.), privacy and security are two concerns that are likely to drive car makers toward BlackBerry's QNX platform in the medium to long term.
Seeking Alpha
December 31, 1999
Given multiple powerful positive catalysts, QNX revenue growth is likely to accelerate sharply in coming quarters. Google's partnership with Jaguar Land Rover could easily open the door to a partnership between BlackBerry and Google and may eventually lead to a takeover of BlackBerry by Google.
Motor1.com
December 31, 1999
It also struck deals with Qualcomm Inc, Baidu Inc and Aptiv Plc to license technology for automotive use. Under the terms of the JLR deal, Blackberry will license its QNX software for cars and Certicom security technology. The QNX unit has been in use for some time, running car infotainment consoles.
Seeking Alpha
December 31, 1999
I've covered how BlackBerry's (BB) QNX has been losing infotainment customers left and right. I put out articles showing as much with Toyota (NYSE:TM), GM (NYSE:GM), Mercedes, and Fiat (NYSE:FCAU), but there are countless other documented losses as well. At the same time, it can be shown that theÃâà...
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