Archive for the ‘BlackBerry Admin’ Category
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."
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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.
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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