March 11th, 2008
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Canadian online music store, Puretracks, has announced Puretracks Mobile Edition for the BlackBerry. Puretracks Mobile Edition runs on the BlackBerry Pearl, BlackBerry Curve, and BlackBerry 8800 series devices.
Puretracks Mobile Edition is designed specifically for mobile handsets and thus music downloads are a compressed DRM free AAC/AAC+ format that are about half the size of traditional MP3s. You undoubtedly will sacrifice a bit of audio quality because of the decreased file size, however, the Purtracks Mobile Edition press release states that CD quality sound is maintained.
Puretracks Mobile Edition for BlackBerry will officially be available after April 1st when it is launched at CITA Wireless. You can, however, get a sneak about March 12th at the South By Southwest (SXSW) event being held in Austin Texas.
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Written by Robb Dunewood on March 11th, 2008 with 10 comments.
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Some of you may have noticed that some of the posts that went up on RIMarkable today didn’t have my name on them. That would be because for the first time in almost 4 years, we have a guest blogger in the house.
Who might this guest blogger be? None other than BlackBerry Forums moderator BBAdmin.
BBAdmin has some thoughts about the BlackBerry that he was to get off his chest, so, for the 16 regular RIMarkable readers that have been waiting for posts that have been spell checked, have good grammar, and read as though they were written by someone who actually knows what they are talking about, your moment is here.
Welcome aboard BBAdmin…
Written by Robb Dunewood on March 11th, 2008 with 2 comments.
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A few of us have been trying to get our heads round some of the new updates to BES 4.1 SP5 this week. While we have covered the unknown territory that is HTML email, one of the other highly anticipated updates has been OTASL (Over The Air Software Loading).
For those that don’t know, this is the devices ability to receive firmware updates remotely rather than an IT department having to collect users devices to perform the upgrades centrally (as currently happens). According to RIM’s documentation you need to have Service Pack 5 on your BES and you need the latest 4.3/4.5 device firmware. What’s odd is that there’s nowhere on the BES to configure OTASL, leaving us wondering if this is purely an update which happens between the device and RIM’s own servers. Not ideal (unless you’re a BIS user) as this takes ownership away from the IT department, but it is early days and perhaps they’ll be a separate ‘device management’ console (as used to be in BES 4.0) to install which will deal with this. In the meantime, have a guess!
Written by BBAdmin on March 11th, 2008 with 3 comments.
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I know that there are a lot of RIMarkable readers out there that are waiting for the CDMA version of the BlackBerry Curve, the BlackBerry Curve 8330, to come out as patiently as they can. Thanks to the quick eye and quick thinking of Howard Forums member blackdogs377, who nabbed a screen shot of the BlackBerry Curve 8330 on Telus’ website, we can report that the much anticipated release may be very near.
We’ve been hearing a lot of rumors that the BlackBerry Curve 8830 may actually come out this month. Even though I am on the record for stating that I didn’t think it would debut before May, I hope this is one of those times that I am wrong.
Telus has pulled the promotion for the BlackBerry Curve 8830 from there site, however, whenever there is smoke, there is usually fire. As it’s always been, it’s just a matter of time before the 8830 debuts, however, it’s looking like it will be a smaller amount of time than what I, at least, thought that it would be.
Written by Robb Dunewood on March 11th, 2008 with 21 comments.
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It appears that an interesting new patent by Research In Motion is circulating the internet this morning – oddly enough it’s to do with locking down device cameras. It was big milestone when RIM first released the BlackBerry Pearl, and in doing so broke the traditional corporate mould of “cameras are not secure in certain work environments”. We all slept easy however when the IT policies on our BlackBerry Servers allowed us to lock out the ability to use to device cameras and memory cards.
Because we have the ability to action these security enhancements remotely from the BES, there’s been some confusion as to what this new patent represents. Let’s look at the patent more closely – this proposes that you have a removable key that physically locks in to the side of a BlackBerry, and when inserted the camera is prevented from working. This seems simple enough, but when we can achieve the same result remotely using the BES server IT policies, why would we want something physical that is bound to get lost or break in the process? It could be aimed at businesses that have BIS users, but generally camera paranoia only comes with huge corporate entities, so it’s unlikely RIM would physically build something to service such a small niche. Time will tell, and we’ll keep you posted.
Written by BBAdmin on March 11th, 2008 with 2 comments.
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One of the biggest features of the BlackBerry and a major reason why it sits on top of the smartphone industry in the corporate world is security. If you ask IT managers that have standardized on the BlackBerry platform for the reasons why, they almost certainly will list security as one of them. A big question, however, is how many companies that have standardized on the BlackBerry are talking the necessary steps to make sure that their BlackBerry installations are as secure as the should be?
According to testing by Internet consultancy NTA Monitor, organizations are failing to ensure the smart phone devices are locked down.
BlackBerry architecture can be insecure if no firewalls are used to separate the BlackBerry Enterprise Server (BES) router component from the central BES server on the internal network. If the BES is compromised and there is no separation of the BES router, it can lead to the whole network becoming insecure.
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Written by Robb Dunewood on March 11th, 2008 with no comments.
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