By Patrick Avenell
Read our wrap of Day 1 of BlackBerry Jam Americas in Orlando
The lure of a relaxing sail on Lake Apopka, a visit to the Kennedy Space Centre and, of course, a pilgrimage to the world famous Winter Park Sinkhole must have been very strong in Orlando, Florida, overnight as BlackBerry seemed to take a lay day from major announcements to only provide updates on new enterprise clients and hand out some gongs to business partners.
The good news for the Canadian smartphone manufacturer is that interest in BlackBerry 10 is clearly apparent across a number of major corporate sectors. A BlackBerry executive, presumably wearing a signed-Shaquille-O’Neal-#32-Orlando-Magic-singlet, QWERTY-keyboarded out the following:
“BlackBerry today announced a number of North American enterprises across a diverse range of sectors, including high tech, banking, retail and government that have adopted BlackBerry 10 and BlackBerry Enterprise Service 10 as part of their mobile strategy.
“The growing number of organisations testing, adopting or reaffirming commitment to BlackBerry as their Enterprise Mobility Management solution, include: Canadian Tire Corporation, ING DIRECT, Ingram Micro, Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department, Ricoh Canada and Torys LLP.”
Although well outside his jurisdiction, Commander Scott Edson from the Los Angeles County Sherrif’s Department, presumably wearing a signed-Shaquille-O’Neal-#34-Los-Angeles-Lakers-singlet, fired off the following:
“Technology is moving fast, and the BlackBerry 10 platform is a viable secure platform that can help us keep up.
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“I have personally tested devices on many smartphone operating systems and I think the BlackBerry 10 platform is a homerun. It’s very secure right out of the box, a great benefit to government and business, and is designed to make your various communication methods more efficient.”
Meanwhile, over at the Bob Carr Performing Arts Centre (you couldn’t make this stuff up), the following winners are presumably celebrating wins in the BlackBerry Achievement Awards:
PriceCheck Mobile for App of the Year
ING DIRECT Canada for Putting Customers First
DirecTV for Mobile Innovation of the Year
e-Cycle for Making the World a Better Place
Nobex Technologies for Entrepreneur of the Year
Meanwhile, in start-packing-your-bags-now news, BlackBerry has confirmed its 2013 Jam Asia conference will be held in Hong Kong on 26 and 27 September 2013. Try the dumplings!