dgstorm
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This is slightly off topic for this site, but is pretty big news, so we wanted to share it here:
Just yesterday we shared a story that Blackberry had purchased some Android specific domain names. This lead to speculation that it was proof of the rumored Android Venice device from Blackberry. In my report, I suggested that maybe Blackberry was simply teaming up with Google to make Android more secure. Sometimes a journalist's predictions/speculations do pan out...
The image above and link below serve as Blackberry's announcement that they are officially working with Google to make a secure, enterprise-level version of Android. In fact, Android Lollipop and the BES12 security architecture are specifically being merged to create this amazing "be together. not the same," hybrid solution.
Of course, this news doesn't necessarily invalidate the possibility that there will be a Blackberry Android device called the Venice. In fact, it seems very likely now that this device will be Blackberry's prime paragon device to herald in the new collaboration. All we can say here at HQ is... "it's about damn time!"
Source: BlackBerry
