Archive for the ‘BlackBerry Admin’ Category

BlackBerrys a security risk, says U.S. congressmen

Friday, July 11th, 2008

A recent article on Politico.com raises security concerns about U.S. Congressional staff members not using device passwords to protect their devices in overseas travel. Says Politico.com writer Patrick O'Connor, "The Internet and the signals emitted by personal electronic devices give hackers tremendous access to private information."

BlackBerryForums.com Gives Back to the Community

Thursday, July 10th, 2008

  Over the past two months, the people over at BlackBerryForums, the sister site of BlackBerryNews, have been rallying to raise funds to help out two very special members of the online BlackBerry community who have had faced hardships of a differing nature.

iPhone in the Enterprise, really?

Thursday, June 19th, 2008

A report released by Technology analysts J. Gold Associates details concerns over enterprise level support for Apple’s iPhone. For those of us on the technology side of the mobile telecoms industry, this is nothing we didn’t already know. After seeing the latest keynote speech from Steve Jobs my colleagues and ...

How RIM has implemented BES internally

Thursday, May 22nd, 2008

WES 2008 marked my first visit to the event. My employer has been there since the beginning... but yup, I was a n00b. Met lots of people from BBF, lots of people from RIM, and even got to sit in on a few good sessions. One of my favorite sessions was ...

BlackBerry Early Adopter and Beta Programs Improve BlackBerry Product Line

Wednesday, May 21st, 2008

Although I was unable to attend this session at the Wireless Enterprise Symposium due to a previously scheduled meeting with a vendor, one of the more intriguing sessions during the 3-day conference was the overview of Research In Motion's new Early Adopter Program and the long-standing and largely successful Beta Program. The BlackBerry Early Adopter Program (EAP) - which headed by one ...

BoxTone Stars in a League of Their Own

Sunday, May 18th, 2008

While in Orlando this past week, a common question was asked time and again - "Which BlackBerry monitoring solution is better?" While I can agree with my colleague, NJBlackBerry, and his Best of WES recommendation to find the best solution for your requirements, I have found a solution that goes above ...

HOWTO: Enable/Disable HTML Email Processing and Rendering in BES 4.1 SP5

Sunday, May 18th, 2008

Logical Overview The logic behind the SQL queries being applied is a two-fold approach - a) enables the feature at the server level, and b) enables the feature at the user level for ALL users. Pre-Requisite: BlackBerry devices must have OS 4.5 in order to take advantage of the HTML feature found ...

DataOutages.com: More important than ever?

Sunday, May 18th, 2008

In the early morning hours on Sunday, May 18, BoxTone alarms started paging for our North and South American BlackBerry environments being unavailable. I received these to my device two hours later, around 4:00 AM. There are methods to account for such outage alerting, such as the use of SMS/Text-based paging ...