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Safari, Meet Windows: Apple’s cool browser comes with security holes

One of the 12 reasons Apple says “you’ll love” Safari for Windows – “Now you can enjoy worry-free web browsing on any computer. Apple engineers designed Safari to be secure from day one.” Apparently, it didn’t take security researchers/experts like Thor Larholm, David Maynor and Aviv Raff too long to uncover the security holes in […]

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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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Zenprise Named Best of TechEd 2007 Finalist

Great news from the TechEd front for Zenprise – the just-released Zenprise for BlackBerry is a finalist for the Best of TechEd 2007 award in the Mobility category! That’s 2 years in a row – probably a first for any company, for 2 different products in 2 different categories! Last year at TechEd, Zenprise for […]

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Hilf: Don’t look at Fortune magazine as the manifestation of Microsoft strategy

In an exclusive interview to InfoWorld magazine, Microsoft’s Bill Hilf clears up the air [read previous article – “Bill Hilf: Free Software Movement Is Dead“] about Microsoft’s open source strategy, and its patent infringement claims. According to Hilf, Microsoft’s strategy hasn’t changed. It’s not on the litigation path. Ignore Fortune’s spin on Microsoft counsel Brad […]

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Bill Hilf: Free Software Movement Is Dead

This may add a lot of fuel to the platforms (Windows v/s Open Source and Almost Open Source But Never Free) debate, and will certainly balloon into a controversy of interesting proportions. Bill Hilf, Microsoft’s GM of Platform Strategy, said in a recent interview in Bangkok: “The Free Software movement is dead. Linux doesn’t exist […]

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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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