Archive for the ‘BlackBerry Infrastructure’ Category
Thursday, August 7th, 2008
BlackBerryForums 4 Year Anniversary!!
Your Chance to win a BlackBerry Kickstart!
As you may know, August 14,2008 marks the 4 year anniversary of BlackBerryClub.com, the original BlackBerryForums.com. As a result we are presenting you with a chance to win a KickStart when it releases, as well as your chance to win one ...
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Friday, July 25th, 2008
(Authors comments: some release dates and estimates have been updated with current available information)
Rogers, T-Mobile Germany, AT&T, VodafoneUK, and O2 dates leaked
Everyone who's been reporting July 25th as the release date for the Bold from Rogers are quickly waking up this morning to find out — no Bold(ness) in Canada ...
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Thursday, July 24th, 2008
We received news today that Research In Motion is planning to perform some maintenance on the EU relay this weekend. During this time, both BIS and BES users will be unable to send and receive email or do any of the other things they all love doing with their BlackBerry handhelds ...
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Tuesday, June 24th, 2008
Vodafone UK has launched the BIS 2.5 service we told you about last week, bringing HTML email to the consumer masses (of course, only available if you have device firmware 4.5 or greater).
Any new accounts created on the Vodafone BlackBerry Internet Service (BIS) will automatically be on the new 2.5 ...
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Monday, June 23rd, 2008
5 Giveaways to a Million!!
Giveaway Number 3 of 5
Giveaway #3 features 37 prizes in total, from BlackBerryForums.com Platinum Sponsors; Shape Services, Horizon Wireless, Fortte Cases, CrossRiverSystems, BlackBerrySmart, Rove, BlackBerryDen & UniqueSkins
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Thursday, June 19th, 2008
***The big upgrade NEXT weekend, not to be confused with maintenance THIS weekend as previously reported in other threads here.***
Critical-S1 Severity Maintenance (New) for BlackBerry Internet Service (v2.x) Email service for subscribers of *The Americas BIS 2.x (MULT)
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Friday, June 13th, 2008
One of the common questions among new users is the seeming delay in receiving email on the BlackBerry handheld. Users see that the email hits their web service, and is not instantaneously on their device.
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Friday, June 6th, 2008
I don't know about you, but I've been waiting a LONG time for this - we're talking YEARS! Leaked versions of the beta OS 4.5 have been popping up all over the place and Rogers has finally delivered a device with 4.5... and now RIM is rolling out BIS 2.5 to APAC ...
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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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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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