TORONTO (Reuters) – BlackBerry will offer technology to separate and secure work and personal data on mobile devices powered by Google Inc’s Android platform and Apple Inc’s iOS operating system, the company said on Thursday.
The new Secure Work Space feature will be available before the end of June will be managed through BlackBerry Enterprise Service 10, the platform that allows BlackBerry’s corporate and government clients to handle devices using different operating systems on their networks.
The move will encourage large customers to continue to use BlackBerry’s services to manage devices on their networks, even as employees use them for their personal devices, which could create security breaches.
In the ultra-competitive smartphone market, BlackBerry has ceded ground to rivals like Apple’s iPhone, Samsung Electronics Co’s Galaxy line and other devices based on the Android operating system.
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