July 6th, 2006
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According to a Techworld report by Peter Judge, a dual mode BlackBerry with cellular and Wi-Fi is coming out by the end of the year.
Personally, I can go either way. I used to think that it was a feature that all new smartphones should have, but, as I really think about it, the reason for wanting Wi-Fi on my BlackBerry was because the cellular networks, less Verizon, are so darn slow. Additionally, I am never in enough places with free Wi-Fi access long enough to make it worth it.
I travel for business quite a bit and it is rare for organizations to have wide open networks anymore. I know some of you are saying that I haven’t been to where your work, however, most enterprises, per their auditors recommendation, are buttoning down their Wi-Fi implementations.
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Wi-Fi BlackBerry
Written by Robb Dunewood on July 6th, 2006 with 3 comments.
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Remember the back in the day when you got your first PDA before the BlackBerry took over? One of the coolest things that you could do was “beam” contact information from your device via infra-red to someone else’s device. I believe that I read an article once that said business cards would go the way of the dinosaur. Well, that hasn’t exactly happened, but, being able to beam your adders book to everyone you met at networking events was pretty fun.
As we know, you can’t exactly beam your info to someone since there is no infra-red on the BlackBerry. However, there is a little known feature that easily allows you to exchange contact info with other BlackBerry users.
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Written by Robb Dunewood on July 6th, 2006 with 7 comments.
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Over on the BlackBerry.com site, Research in Motion recently announced that they, via service providers that currently outsource email systems, are getting into the Hosted BlackBerry Enterprise Server game.
The new software / platform is intended to allow service providers and wireless carries that offer hosted messaging solutions to small and medium sized businesses to offer BlackBerry Enterprise Server in a hosted in environment to these SMBs as well.
Hosted BlackBerry Enterprise Server offers the security and functionality of the BlackBerry Enterprise Solution through a fully outsourced version of BlackBerry Enterprise Server. You don’t need to buy, install or manage server software. Your business can go wireless with no upfront software costs, deployment overhead or ongoing IT support costs.
I think that Hosted BlackBerry Enterprise Servers could be a very big hit for Research in Motion. There are thousands of small business that don’t have their own IT staff to run a dedicated messaging a BES implementation, however rely heavily on email and could benefit greatly from the benefits of Hosted BlackBerry Enterprise Server.
Truth be told, there are already quite a few service providers offering this type of service with standard BlackBerry Enterprise Server, however this new hosted version of BES may take this offering to the next level.
Hosted BlackBerry Enterprise Server
Written by Robb Dunewood on July 6th, 2006 with 1 comment.
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