With TerreStar’s communications satillite in orbit and in functioning order, AT&T is now ready to offer the supporting handset, dubbed Genus. Running on Windows Mobile and having access to both terrestrial HSPA and satellite networks, the Genus will be the perfect choice for those who depend on constant coverage, no matter where you’re going. For…
Motorola MC9500 Offers Swappable Keypads, Battery Indicators to Enterprise
The latest from Motorola’s rugged enterprise line is the MC9500 – a Windows Mobile smartphone designed for tough industrial situations. One-handed use is a big deal with the MC9500, something the MC55 wouldn’t be able to handle for beans, accentuated further by great accelerometer use. The video demo shows a section where you tip the…
Study: BlackBerry Adds 15 Hours to Work Week
While BlackBerry has become something of a standard issue for many enterprises, it’s gradually turning into an HR headache as the threat of employees demanding overtime on mobile devices looms. Keeping time sheets for personal/business mobile use is a bit impractical – some companies simply institute mandatory BlackBerry blackouts in order to save themselves the…
RIM Announces New Bluetooth Smart Card Reader
RIM is obviously best known for making BlackBerry, but they’ve actually had a Smart Card reader available for government and high-security enterprise customers since 2005. The latest model, announced today, hosts a slimmer profile and a few new features. What does it do, exactly? Well, it plays nice with BlackBerry, for one (go figure). By…
BoxTone Launches Cheaper Enterprise Monitoring
BoxTone is about to announce a new product, called Essentials, that will give small to medium businesses some help in keeping their BlackBerry rollout managed. BoxTone’s software basically helps IT admins in companies to figure out what’s wrong with employees’ BlackBerrys and get them fixed with minimal fuss – ideally spotting the problems before end-users…
Android Enterprise App Support “as Soon as This Year”
You thought Exchange support was as a big deal for Android? Well, enterprise-grade applications are also in the pipes for a future release of Android, according to Google VP Andy Rubin. Of course, Google’s attitude remains somewhat laissez-faire, riding primarily on the hope that manufacturers will do what they will to the Android source code…
Sidekick LX Gets Exchange Treatment
An iconic teenage smartphone, the Sidekick, is getting all grown up and professional as it receives full push e-mail service through a Sidekick Sync app today. The Sidekick LX ’09 was promising Exchange ActiveSync at launch, and now for $4.99/month, you can get push e-mail, synced contacts, calendar items, and all the usual corporate Exchange…
Businessy Samsung C6625 Hits Vodafone UK
Vodafone UK, Samsung, and Microsoft all got a little snuggly over the new WinMo-packing C6625 recently. The C6625 runs Windows Mobile 6.1, has a full QWERTY keyboard in a candybar form factor, and sports a modest 2 megapixel camera. The screen clocks in at 320 x 240, and the device, as expected, plugs into Microsoft…
SAP for BlackBerry Launched
About a year ago WES, Research in Motion had made the announcement of a partnership with customer relationship management software-maker SAP, which has fully come to fruition. The BlackBerry enterprise app is now available, and basically keeps tabs on sales and customer information so field workers can quickly follow-up on leads, report sales, and retrieve…
IBM and SAP Partner up for Alloy – BlackBerry Business Flow Software
BlackBerry is, of course, an enterprise device first and foremost, and it’s a big focus of this year’s Wireless Enterprise Symposium. For the day 1 keynote, IBM General Manager Bob Picciano introduced a BlackBerry enterprise solution called Alloy, which was first announced back in January at their own annual show, Lotusphere. Alloy is essentially an…