shares of blackberry ltd rose 56 after hours on wednesday after the securitysoftware developer reported fiscal firstquarter results that topped wall street estimates helped by gains in sales in the business it does with governments the company reported a net loss of 11 million or 2 cents a share compared with a loss of 181 million or 35 cents a share in the same quarter last year revenue more than doubled to 373 million compared with 168 million in the prioryear quarter adjusted earnings came in at 6 cents a share analysts polled by factset expected an adjusted loss per share of 6 cents on sales of