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CoTweet, a popular enterprise-grade social networking client, has launched a salvo of mobile apps at SXSW to keep marketing, support, and PR professionals in touch with their customers via Twitter. They’ve had an iPhone client for a little while now, but Android, BlackBerry and Windows Phone apps are all new. Windows Mobile is a strange…
Since its announcement, RIM has been touting the BlackBerry PlayBook as the one and only enterprise-ready tablet, and to further emphasize the point they’ve released a video talking in vague terms about how awesome and secure the thing is. The key phrase in the video is that the PlayBook was “Built for CIOs with CIOs”…
RIM’s ongoing negotiations with the government of India regarding lawful interception of BlackBerry data have hit a bit of a roadblock. RIM has already gone on record and said that they can’t access anything on BlackBerry Enterprise Servers, but the Union Home Minister P Chidambaram said that they still insist that some kind of surveillance…
In RIM’s ongoing video series leading up to the launch of their BlackBerry PlayBook tablet in March, they’re showing off some of the business capabilities of the device. There’s nothing particularly new to be seen; it’s explained again that enterprise e-mail is wiped from the PlayBook as soon as you un-pair a BlackBerry smartphone. App…
We got a sneak peek at upcoming BlackBerry Enterprise Server features the other week, detailing Balance, a new initiative from RIM to support folks who buy their own device and want to be able to use it for both work and play. The main thing has been to keep personal and professional data distinct and…
The Motorola Droid Pro for Verizon is aimed at bringing an Android phone to the BlackBerry set. With a full QWERTY keyboard and some extra security features, this smartphone is trying to to appeal to enterprise users who are sick of the limitations that BlackBerry offers. Does this handset give you the best of both…
RIM is apparently considering extending their BlackBerry Enterprise Server to be able to manage corporate devices aside from BlackBerry, according to Communications Platform VP Pete Devenyi in an interview. Although they aren’t announcing any new products, it’s a direction RIM is willing to move in if there is enough demand from their customers. “BlackBerry is…
RIM announced an update to their user-liable feature in BES 5.0.2, naming it “BlackBerry Balance” yesterday in Boston. BlackBerry Enterprise Server 5.0.3 basically allows office monkeys to buy their own BlackBerry, and use it as a personal as well as a professional device while staying secure enough for the IT guys. This is done by…
We’ve seen an awful lot of RIM’s first tablet, the BlackBerry PlayBook this week at CES. Now that they’re finally letting us actually touch the thing, most of the initial impressions have been positive, but one really big problem has come up: you can’t fetch e-mail or access other personal information management data (address book,…
At CES today, LG announced two LTE products that work on Verizon’s new 4G network. The WM300 and L2000 aren’t broadband dongles, but rather chipsets that work for machine-to-machine connectivity. That means these modules will mostly be used for fixed enterprise assets that require high-speed wireless connectivity. Any businesses that have been really hurting for…