Telstra BlackBerry Users Back Online

July 7, 2005

According to Rod Bruem, spokesman for Telstra, Australian BlackBerry users are back online.  Service was restored at 7 p.m. AEST, 33 hours after the primary link was disrupted on the North American end by service work.  Telstra will announce tomorrow how companies seeking compensation for lost business can make claims. 

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Australian BlackBerry Outage Moves Into Day Two

July 7, 2005

Update
Telstra spokesman rod Bruem said that a new physical link for service between Telstra and Research in Motion has been established and work on the configuration of the data carriage over that link is underway.

There is a possibility that full service will be restored this afternoon, but due to international time frames and the degree [...]

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Entel PCS and RIM bring BlackBerry to Chile

July 7, 2005

Entel PCS and Research in Motion today announced plans to introduce the BlackBerry 7230 to Chile. 

We are pleased to work with RIM to offer BlackBerry, providing our customers with mobile access to communications and information while on the go,” said Carlos Rodríguez, Products & Services Manager of Entel PCS.   “Entel PCS is the first [...]

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Free Downloads for your BlackBerry

July 6, 2005

If you are like me, you are always looking for a good game download for your BlackBerry.  Especially a good, free, game download for your Blackberry.   Well, thanks to RIM Road, here is a list of about 50 games that are freeware, shareware or demoware so you should be able to download until your heart is [...]

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Nokia to Offer Free Blackberry-style ‘Push’ E-mail

July 5, 2005

Competition is really starting to mount for BlackBerry maker, Research in Motion.  Together with Seven, Nokia is planning to offer free “Push” based email access to POP and IMAP mailboxes. 

The free service will forward email to the phone as it arrives, making POP and IMAP email easier to use on a mobile phone. If [...]

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@Large BlackBerry Invitational Tournament

July 5, 2005

Scott Kirsner, contributing editor at Fast Company, held the first ever, @Large Blackberry Invitational Tournament, and all I can say is,
“Dude!  Why didn’t you let me know?  I would have entered…”
The rules were simple.  Anyone with a mobile email device, i.e., BlackBerry, Treo, Sidekick, etc., could enter.  Competitors would respond to four messages sent over [...]

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The BlackBerry is Getting Squeezed From All Sides

July 4, 2005

Rhonda Wickham, Editor-in-Chief of Wireless Week, has good article on all the patent disputes and competitive forces that are eating away at Research in Motion’s market dominance.

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Why RIM should add server side Bluetooth On / Off functionality

July 1, 2005

Ever since I got my first BlackBerry almost a year ago I have been in love with almost all aspects of the device. One area that I am not all that found of, however, is the headset only bluetooth. I gu…

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New Evidence in the RIM / NTP Patent Case

June 30, 2005

Lawyers for Research in Motion have discovered 6 technical books that they hope will invalidate patent infringement claims made by NTP.  These books, published by Telenor, the largest provider of telecommunications services in Norway, describe a “wireless email system” similar to that which Research in Motion uses for it’s popular BlackBerry service.  The key here [...]

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