From the category archives:

Opinion

BlackBerry Administrator: Is This Title An Appropriate Job Description Yet?

by Robb Dunewood on April 8, 2008 · 6 comments

There is no doubt that most BlackBerry implementations are considered mission critical applications, but, do IT shops allocate resources to them as such?
I remember having lunch with 3 “BlackBerry Administrators” a while back and one of the things that I noticed during our conversation was that not one of them officially had the title of [...]

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My BlackBerry Ran Out Of Memory Again…

by Robb Dunewood on April 4, 2008 · 22 comments

Rant Alert…
Can someone for the love of all things tell me why I cannot store contacts on my BlackBerry’s frigging memory card?
I am one of those people that has a ridiculously large address book. If think that I will ever call your number more than one time I see no reason not to create [...]

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Do You Sleep With Your BlackBerry?

by Robb Dunewood on April 2, 2008 · 8 comments

I was just reading an article about how Madonna cannot bear to be without hear BlackBerry and even sleeps with it under her pillow and it got me to wondering about how many RIMarkable readers sleep with their devices.
I have to admit, although I don’t sleep with my BlackBerry under my pillow, it usually finds [...]

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XM Radio Comes To The BlackBerry

by Robb Dunewood on April 2, 2008 · 5 comments

XM and QuickPlay announced yesterday XM Radio Mobile for BlackBerry Smartphones. For $7.99 per month select model BlackBerry users will get access to 20 channels of XM programming, mostly commercial free music channels as well as The Virus (uncensored talk) and XM Comedy (uncensored comedy) via QuickPlay’s OpenVideo.
I have XM in my car on [...]

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If You Aren’t On BES, Do You Really Need OTA BlackBerry Synch?

by Robb Dunewood on March 26, 2008 · 13 comments

OK RIMarkable readers. I think that I am missing the point on something and I need you to set me straight.
BlackBerry Forums member Cory Scheuer wrote a pretty good review of ThinkPost’s new BlackBerry Sync, an over-the-air BlackBerry synchronization service that will allow BlackBerry BIS users to sync contacts, calendar, and notes [...]

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Another Round Of iPhone Or BlackBerry

by Robb Dunewood on March 19, 2008 · 8 comments

I know that this is about the 1912th time that we’ve talked about the iPhone vs. the BlackBerry since the announcement of the iPhone SDK came out, however, big time websites keep bringing it up and since I love a good argument, we will do the same.
I do, however, want to take a bit of [...]

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Research in Motion Co-CEO Is Full of $#!+ When It Comes To BlackBerry Outages

by Robb Dunewood on March 12, 2008 · 11 comments

I’ve always been told that the first step in dealing with an problem is admitting that you have one. Based on Zach Church’s observations at Gartner’s Wireless and Mobile Summit last week, this sounds exactly like what Research in Motion co-CEO Mike Lazaridis needs to do when it comes to all of the BlackBerry [...]

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