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Remember a couple of weeks ago when we talked about how India may ban the BlackBerry, then followed up a few days later and said the the ban appeared to be off? Well, the Indian ban on BlackBerrys is definitely not going to happen, however, BlackBerry email may still be if deadlines for RIM [...]
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Remember the scheduled BlackBerry outage that Research in Motion was supposed to be having this passed Saturday morning? Well, thanks to “outstanding cooperation” on the part of RIM with Missouri’s emergency response community, the planned BlackBerry outage for database upgrades was postponed.
The request for not taking down BlackBerry service early Saturday morning didn’t come [...]
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Remember the other day when we said that India banned the BlackBerry? Well, Telecoms Secretary, Siddhartha Behura, told reporters at an industry conference that “There is no question of banning at this point.”
The department of telecoms will meet with the representatives of the four wireless providers that currently offer BlackBerry service in India.
“We are [...]
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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 [...]
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According to a ChangeWave Research survey, Research in Motion’s BlackBerry accounts for almost 3 of 4 smartphone purchases in the enterprise with 73% of the market. The survey also has the BlackBerry poised to pick up another 4 to 5 points.
Although the BlackBerry is, pretty much, crushing everyone, Apple’s iPhone is coming on strong. [...]
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(sarcasm)We know that last company that you would ever expect to be involved in a patent infringement lawsuit would be Research in Motion(/sarcasm), however, that is exactly what the BlackBerry maker is wrapped up in with Motorola.
Motorola is claiming that the way most BlackBerry 8xxx series devices store contact info in wireless emails and the [...]
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Word on the street is that a “routine” system upgrade is what caused most BlackBerry users to go without BlackBerry service Monday afternoon. I don’t know that I would call an upgrade that could cause most of North, Central, and South America not to be able to send and receive email routine, however, at [...]
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We didn’t want to title this post “Yet Another BlackBerry Outage” because we’ve done that two or three times already. I’ve got the same things to say about todays outage that I’ve had to say about the last 3 or 4 of them. Research in Motion flat out shouldn’t have these kind of [...]
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Zimbra, an open-source alternative to Microsoft Exchange that was acquired by Yahoo last September, now supports BlackBerry Enterprise Server.
Zimbra joins the likes of Microsoft Exchange, Lotus Notes, and Novell Groupwise becoming only the fourth corporate email system to offer BES Support.
[Via TechCrunch]
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