Step-4: Set up BBM After BBM is installed, click on the Open button to launch BBM. Set up BBM with a BlackBerry ID and run through the initial setup BBM should now have been installed on the PC.

BBM, formerly known as BlackBerry Messenger, will be shut down on May 31. Emtek, the company that now runs the messaging service, tried to revive it, but said that "users have moved on." ...

BBM is one of the oldest smartphone messaging services. Research in Motion, BlackBerry’s original name, released the messenger in 2005. It quickly became a selling point for BlackBerry devices.

BlackBerry said it will open up BBMe — the enterprise version of BBM — to individual consumers. The move follows Emtek's announcement Thursday that it will shut down the once popular ...

Sounds about right. But there’s a difference between BBM and other video-calling platforms, like FaceTime, WhatsApp, Skype, Snapchat, and Hangouts.

In 2012 that picture changed, with Facebook growing to 9.4-million users and Mxit seeming to shrink to 7.4-million active users in South Africa.