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Will BlackBerry recover from its financial struggles and once again turn a profit? BlackBerry Chief John Chen is at least honest — and sees the company’s future as a coin toss. In an interview with the Financial Times conducted during last month’s Mobile World Congress in Barcelona and published Tuesday, BlackBerry’s CEO said that recovery and restructuring strategies have a …

Want to protect your phone calls and data from the feds, hackers, and other snoops? FreedomPop’s new Privacy Phone promises to do just that. Nicknamed the “Snowden phone” after NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden, the phone is actually a Samsung Galaxy S2 that FreedomPop rejiggered into a call- and data-encrypting device. Equipped with 128-bit encryption, the phone aims to secure your …