Will BlackBerry Ltd keeping making hardware? Time’s up for CEO John Chen’s profitability deadline

[ad_1] “Software is the new BlackBerry.” So screams the headline on BlackBerry Ltd.’s website just days before CEO John Chen hits his self-imposed September deadline to make the mobile company’s foundering hardware division profitable again or get out of the segment. BlackBerry highlights before its collapse 1996: Research in Motion launches the Inter@ctive Pager, the…