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Nokia has just announced an official LinkedIn app for Symbian handsets, just in time for the platform to be phased out. With it, users can conduct searches on the professional social network, send and recieve status updates, check direct messages, manage connection requests, and use reconnect to find folks you probably know on the network…
BlackBerry Balance, an upcoming BES feature RIM has been quietly showing off the last couple of months, is now available to businesses that want to keep business data and personal data separate on managed devices. This is done by blocking the pasting of information into personal apps like Facebook, Twitter, or Gmail, locking down files…
This, I daresay, will be the biggest news from the BlackBerry World Conference starting up tomorrow – yeah, even bigger than the Bold 9900. RIM has announced that their signature BlackBerry Enterprise Server product will soon be emulated in another product, which will be able to manage iOS and Android devices thanks to a pending…
Some new data out of Good Technology shows that the iPhone and iOS is outpacing Android among enterprises. If you don’t know, Good Technology provides enterprise mobility tools and it used to be owned by Motorola. Now that it’s an independent entity, it can offer business mobile solutions that include various platforms. The company says…
Motorola may have brought the world the first Android 3.0 Honeycomb tablet, but it looks like they have something else cooking in their “world’s first” kitchen, catering to rough-and-tumble tablet users. Rumor has it that a new Motorola tablet is in the works and will be a bit more enterprise friendly and it’s said to…
HP has expanded their ePrint cloud printing service currently available for BlackBerry to the iPhone. This means if you need hard copies of some documents or pictures on your iPhone, you can shoot those files off to nearby commercial printing centers or printers on your corporate network. Official HP Managed Print Services locations, such as…
Google has beefed up its Android enterprise features in a bid to get its platforms in more businesses. That’s right folks, Android is ready to work. One of the new Android enterprise features may make Honeycomb tablets like the Motorola Xoom fit better into corporate policies. Google Apps administrators will now be able to encrypt…
LinkedIn, the self-proclaimed online social network for professionals, has finally made its way to Android with an official app after running an open beta for the last four months or so. They’ve added Reconnect (to discover new contacts) and Messages and functions on top of features that have been available from the get-go, like viewing…
A leaked enterprise product roadmap from RIM is indicating that BlackBerry Enterprise Server for Google Apps Premier is being targeted for a September launch. This means corporate-grade e-mail, calendar, and contacts will sync up seamlessly between the Google services in the cloud and the BlackBerry phone in your hand. This is vaguely reminiscent of the…
Until recently, Microsoft offered to host BlackBerry Enterprise Servers for $10 per month per user, but that has apparently changed. They now offer the add-on as a free add-on to existing hosted Exchange customers. From their Mobility Solutions sheet: “Hosted BlackBerry for Microsoft Exchange Online is acquired as an add-on to Exchange Online Standard or…