Mobility

French govt bans BlackBerry citing security risks

In an interesting twist, the French government has banned members and their advisors from using BlackBerrys, citing security concerns arising from the fact that data flows through servers in the U.K. and N. America. Says InfoWorld, “This concentration of data poses a threat to national security, according to Alain Juillet, senior economic intelligence advisor to […]

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Zenprise Wins Best Of TechEd 2007 Award

An interesting week in Orlando, as TechEd weeks generally are. The Zenprise team returned home with the Best of TechEd 2007 award! That’s 2 years in a row – first time a start-up has won Best Of TechEd two years in a row! What’s a cause for cheer for most of us – this time […]

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WES 2007: RIM extends office phone sytems to BlackBerries

At its Wireless Enterprise Symposium – WES 2007 in Orlando, FL, Research In Motion announced the BlackBerry MVS (Mobile Voice System), a suite of products that extends enterprise PBX systems to BlackBerry devices, enabling users to have a single phone number and making BlackBerries part of the enterprise telephony eco-system – as extensions of their […]

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ZDNet: Zenprise gave indications 2 hours before the BlackBerry outage

Before the world knew: insider’s diary of BlackBerry service shutdown by ZDNet‘s Russell Shaw — For two hours before the BlackBerry email outage two weeks ago, the Zenprise BlackBerry service monitoring system in place at the County of Alameda (Cal.) data center in the 1.5 million-populaton county seat of Oakland “gave us some indications connectivity […]

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RIM does a BlackBerry on Windows Mobile

Interesting announcement from RIM – it will offer the BlackBerry application suite for devices running Microsoft’s Windows Moible 6, which will morph the Windows Mobile device into a BlackBerry at the touch of a button. Sort of. Once installed, the application will provide users with a “virtual BlackBerry appearance” – including support for BlackBerry email, […]

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RIM Reveals Cause of BlackBerry Outage

Research In Motion finally provided more details about the cause of its 14-hour outage starting Tuesday night. You can read more about it on Russell Shaw’s The BlackBerry Beat blog on ZDNet, or News.com (RIM offers explanation for massive outage), or the publication of your choice – it’s all over the place. Judging by the […]

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BlackBerry Outage Cause of a Break-up!

In an interesting twist on last night’s BlackBerry outage at RIM, Network World’s John Cox reports how the extended outage resulted in one user’s girlfriend breaking up with him. After a bad argument the couple had earlier in the day, user Rafael Paz’ girlfriend sent him a few emails. When she did not receive a […]

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Zenprise proactively detects BlackBerry N. America outage!

BlackBerry® users in North America were without email last night (Tuesday April 17th), thanks to an extended system-wide outage in Research In Motion’s network that handles email. Zenprise customers report that Zenprise for BlackBerry automatically detected this outage in the BlackBerry SRP network at 5:19 PM last night, and were able to pro actively inform […]

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SearchCIO.com: BlackBerry troubleshooting a breeze for retail chain

SearchCIO.com just published this article by Andrew Hickey, titled “BlackBerry troubleshooting a breeze for retail chain“, about how Zenprise for BlackBerry helps troubleshoot BlackBerry issues. The level of interest of BlackBerry (Enterprise Server for Exchange) customers in Zenprise amazes me – needless to say, it’s beyond my expectations… :)

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John Dvorak: Apple should pull the plug on the iPhone

John Dvorak on the iPhone in his Second Opinion column titled “Apple should pull the plug on the iPhone”: These phones go in and out of style so fast that unless Apple has half a dozen variants in the pipeline, its phone, even if immediately successful, will be passé within 3 months. Interesting and opinionated, […]

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