One of the companies showing off at Showstoppers was Touchatag, which you might know as tikitag; they had been working on a 2D barcode scanner and RFID detector which allowed for contactless close-range communication between tagged objects and your phone. In addition to their rebranding, Touchatag is now offering an extended API for developers to…
BlackBerry Application Suite on Display, Third-Party App Support Confirmed
Although RIM didn’t have as many boomworthy announcements at Mobile World Congress as, say HTC, Acer, or Nokia, they have curiously started showing the BlackBerry Application Suite spied a few months ago, also running on an HTC Touch Pro. For the uninitiated, the BAS offers all the home-cookin’ of the BlackBerry experience on a Windows…
New Version of BlackBerry Mobile Voice System Due in June
The big news out of RIM’s New York press event was BES 5.0, but they also talked a lot about their enterprise convergence service, Mobile Voice System. In so many words, it’s a fancy call forwarding system that gives your BlackBerry all of the functions of your traditional fixed office line, like extensions and conference…
BlackBerry Enterprise Server 5.0 Due Q2 ’09, Featuring Remote File Access
At a swell little shindig in New York today, RIM talked up BES 5.0 codenamed after the inert (i.e stable) gas, Argon. Argon’s been in the works for a couple of years now – according to RIM, beta versions have been in the hands of companies for the last year, and in use internally for…
Twitter to Begin Charging for Commercial Use
Twitter CEO Biz Stone has revealed some upcoming plans for their popular microblogging service which has seen significant enterprise adoption (yep, even by us). “We are noticing more companies using Twitter and individuals following them. We can identify ways to make this experience even more valuable and charge for commercial accounts.” Twitter is an incredibly…
New Software Sets Phone Key as Panic Alarm for Lone Workers
I just heard about VeriLocation, a company that mostly does enterprise asset tracking, but also has a very cool GPS-enabled personal mobile application that lets users assign one key as a panic key, which, after being held for three seconds, will send GPS coordinates to a 24-hour manned control centre. Even this app is pretty…
Nokia Welcoming Back BlackBerry Services
Over the summer, Nokia squeezed BlackBerry Connect out of their E-series devices supposedly in an attempt to stake their own claim to enterprise functions with some help from Microsoft and IBM, but a recent interview with Tom Furlong, head of Nokia’s messaging services, confirmed that RIM will continue to support the service. “We are in…
RIM Announces Fresh Lotus Features and New Dev Tools
At the 2009 Lotusphere RIM is showing off some new tools based around the Lotus platform due later this year: Symphony document viewing, Quickr team collaboration, Domino Designer and XPages. RIM initially touted Lotus Connections compatibility at last year’s Lotusphere, but it’s getting a few additional features such as blogs, communities and activities. The whole…
T-Mobile BlackBerry 8900 Corporate Pricing Revealed
Y’know how the new BlackBerry Javelin Curve is hitting up corporate T-Mobile customers on January 19th.? Well, the pricing is out and it will give you a good idea on what to expect when it’s publicly available on February 11th. $499.99 MSRP 2 YR Agreement $300 instant rebate = $199.99 1 YR Agreement $250 instant…
BlackBerry OS 5.0 Features Leaked
The last batch of BlackBerry Enterprise 5.0 features that got leaked had a lot to do with the technical back-end, but we just got wind of a bunch more that end-users will be happy to hear about. Above all, these outline some of the big changes we’ll see on handheld software version 5.0. Right now…