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]]> By: stevestr http://www.blackberrycool.com/2007/01/30/beam-your-documents-from-your-berry/comment-page-1/#comment-133682 stevestr Fri, 25 May 2007 17:49:10 +0000 http://www.blackberrycool.com/2007/01/30/003432/#comment-133682 I would never use this service just to read my documents on my BB, especially where your company does not allow disclosure of private company information to any third party without a signed not disclosure agreement from the recipient(s). Here http://www.beamberry.com/terms.html is their terms and agreement (EULA). Its mainly what you (the end user) can and cannot due with their software. In short, their EULA indemnifies BeamBerry Corp., (including their own negligence, incidental, consequential or otherwise), and to the extent of any damages suffered by the end user(s) of their software, damages are limited to the actual amount paid by the end user, in this case $0, and in not event exceed $100 in damages. Here is their policy on the documents they get from you:

POLICY ON DOCUMENTS MANAGED BY BEAMBERRY:

“You are solely responsible for all document attachments that you view, print, share or store using our service (“Materials”). You acknowledge that BeamBerry Solutions will do its best to protect the confidentiality, integrity and availability of your documents. However, you agree not to hold BeamBerry Solutions liable if confidentiality, integrity and/or availability of your documents are compromised. You further represent that you have all rights necessary for you to make the grants in this section.”.

What they are saying in this section of their “one sided agreement” is that you (the end user) will not hold BeamBerry liable for the confidentiality of your documents that they receive from you if they are compromised. Ooops! Can you imagine someone else “accidentally” getting copie(s) of your documents and selling them for profit?

Finally, their privacy policy is superceded by the EULA under the SEVERABILITY section, which states (in part):

“This Agreement constitutes the entire agreement between YOU and BeamBerry Solutions and supersedes all prior and contemporaneous agreements and understandings, whether oral or written”.

Basically the privacy policy takes us right back to their EULA (excerpt direct from their privacy policy):

“BeamBerry Solutions will take precautions to ensure that confidentiality, integrity and availability of your documents are preserved (subject to liability limitations as outlined in the “End User License Agreement”)

The so called “liability limitations” stated above as outlined in the EULA is that there is no liability whatsoever on the part of BeamBerry in the event your documents are compromised and/or their confidentiality is not preserved. Now who in their right mind would ever use BeamBerry for their documents?

]]> By: stevestr http://www.blackberrycool.com/2007/01/30/beam-your-documents-from-your-berry/comment-page-1/#comment-484876 stevestr Fri, 25 May 2007 17:49:00 +0000 http://www.blackberrycool.com/2007/01/30/003432/#comment-484876 I would never use this service just to read my documents on my BB, especially where your company does not allow disclosure of private company information to any third party without a signed not disclosure agreement from the recipient(s). Here http://www.beamberry.com/terms.html is their terms and agreement (EULA). Its mainly what you (the end user) can and cannot due with their software. In short, their EULA indemnifies BeamBerry Corp., (including their own negligence, incidental, consequential or otherwise), and to the extent of any damages suffered by the end user(s) of their software, damages are limited to the actual amount paid by the end user, in this case $0, and in not event exceed $100 in damages. Here is their policy on the documents they get from you:

POLICY ON DOCUMENTS MANAGED BY BEAMBERRY:

“You are solely responsible for all document attachments that you view, print, share or store using our service (“Materials”). You acknowledge that BeamBerry Solutions will do its best to protect the confidentiality, integrity and availability of your documents. However, you agree not to hold BeamBerry Solutions liable if confidentiality, integrity and/or availability of your documents are compromised. You further represent that you have all rights necessary for you to make the grants in this section.”.

What they are saying in this section of their “one sided agreement” is that you (the end user) will not hold BeamBerry liable for the confidentiality of your documents that they receive from you if they are compromised. Ooops! Can you imagine someone else “accidentally” getting copie(s) of your documents and selling them for profit?

Finally, their privacy policy is superceded by the EULA under the SEVERABILITY section, which states (in part):

“This Agreement constitutes the entire agreement between YOU and BeamBerry Solutions and supersedes all prior and contemporaneous agreements and understandings, whether oral or written”.

Basically the privacy policy takes us right back to their EULA (excerpt direct from their privacy policy):

“BeamBerry Solutions will take precautions to ensure that confidentiality, integrity and availability of your documents are preserved (subject to liability limitations as outlined in the “End User License Agreement”)

The so called “liability limitations” stated above as outlined in the EULA is that there is no liability whatsoever on the part of BeamBerry in the event your documents are compromised and/or their confidentiality is not preserved. Now who in their right mind would ever use BeamBerry for their documents?

]]> By: BlackBerryCool » BeamBerry questions answered http://www.blackberrycool.com/2007/01/30/beam-your-documents-from-your-berry/comment-page-1/#comment-78474 BlackBerryCool » BeamBerry questions answered Wed, 31 Jan 2007 14:07:28 +0000 http://www.blackberrycool.com/2007/01/30/003432/#comment-78474 [...] Yesterday we broke news about BeamBerry Software Suite, a new piece of software from the folks at BeamBerry Solutions that let’s you view, print, and store email attachments on your BlackBerry. There was some question regarding BeamBerry’s legitimacy, so we thought we would highlight a comment made by a member of the BeamBerry team. Thank you for your interest in BeamBerry. We are particularly thankful for the attention considering since we somehow managed to time the launch of our product to coincide with the release of Vista. We wanted to take this opportunity to answer some of the questions raised in this forum. [...]

]]> By: Beamberry http://www.blackberrycool.com/2007/01/30/beam-your-documents-from-your-berry/comment-page-1/#comment-78368 Beamberry Wed, 31 Jan 2007 04:52:06 +0000 http://www.blackberrycool.com/2007/01/30/003432/#comment-78368 Thank you for your interest in BeamBerry. We are particularly thankful for the attention considering since we somehow managed to time the launch of our product to coincide with the release of Vista ;) . We wanted to take this opportunity to answer some of the questions raised in this forum.

BeamBerry Solutions is a startup company that launched its BeamBerry service for viewing, printing and storing PDF and MS Office document attachments, free of charge under the Early Access Program, on January 29th, 2007. The solution uses a server to process the documents and stream them as images back to the BlackBerry device. To learn more about how BeamBerry works please see here:
http://www.beamberry.com/product_description.html

All existing solutions in this space use server side processing as the BlackBerry device itself is not currently powerful enough to handle all of that locally. One of the ways in which BeamBerry is unique is that it does not clutter your mailbox with extra e-mail messages and does not require you to wait for a reply e-mail from the service in order to view the document attachment. Instead, everything is made transparent and the document opens up shortly after “Open with BeamBerry” is clicked.

BeamBerry viewer has the ability to open even very large documents. The time it takes to open a document will vary based on its size and other factors, but the solution is very scalable.

There is currently an issue with the service for the BlackBerry Pearl model. Our technical support team is working aggressively to resolve this issue and the service should be available shortly for that BlackBerry model. We apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused.

As this is an Early Access Program, we would sincerely appreciate any feedback you could provide for how we may improve BeamBerry. If you encounter any issues, please notify us and we will work to resolve them promptly.

]]> By: Beamberry http://www.blackberrycool.com/2007/01/30/beam-your-documents-from-your-berry/comment-page-1/#comment-484874 Beamberry Wed, 31 Jan 2007 04:52:00 +0000 http://www.blackberrycool.com/2007/01/30/003432/#comment-484874 Thank you for your interest in BeamBerry. We are particularly thankful for the attention considering since we somehow managed to time the launch of our product to coincide with the release of Vista ;) . We wanted to take this opportunity to answer some of the questions raised in this forum.

BeamBerry Solutions is a startup company that launched its BeamBerry service for viewing, printing and storing PDF and MS Office document attachments, free of charge under the Early Access Program, on January 29th, 2007. The solution uses a server to process the documents and stream them as images back to the BlackBerry device. To learn more about how BeamBerry works please see here:
http://www.beamberry.com/product_description.html

All existing solutions in this space use server side processing as the BlackBerry device itself is not currently powerful enough to handle all of that locally. One of the ways in which BeamBerry is unique is that it does not clutter your mailbox with extra e-mail messages and does not require you to wait for a reply e-mail from the service in order to view the document attachment. Instead, everything is made transparent and the document opens up shortly after “Open with BeamBerry” is clicked.

BeamBerry viewer has the ability to open even very large documents. The time it takes to open a document will vary based on its size and other factors, but the solution is very scalable.

There is currently an issue with the service for the BlackBerry Pearl model. Our technical support team is working aggressively to resolve this issue and the service should be available shortly for that BlackBerry model. We apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused.

As this is an Early Access Program, we would sincerely appreciate any feedback you could provide for how we may improve BeamBerry. If you encounter any issues, please notify us and we will work to resolve them promptly.

]]> By: Beamberry http://www.blackberrycool.com/2007/01/30/beam-your-documents-from-your-berry/comment-page-1/#comment-484875 Beamberry Wed, 31 Jan 2007 04:52:00 +0000 http://www.blackberrycool.com/2007/01/30/003432/#comment-484875 Thank you for your interest in BeamBerry. We are particularly thankful for the attention considering since we somehow managed to time the launch of our product to coincide with the release of Vista ;) . We wanted to take this opportunity to answer some of the questions raised in this forum.

BeamBerry Solutions is a startup company that launched its BeamBerry service for viewing, printing and storing PDF and MS Office document attachments, free of charge under the Early Access Program, on January 29th, 2007. The solution uses a server to process the documents and stream them as images back to the BlackBerry device. To learn more about how BeamBerry works please see here:
http://www.beamberry.com/product_description.html

All existing solutions in this space use server side processing as the BlackBerry device itself is not currently powerful enough to handle all of that locally. One of the ways in which BeamBerry is unique is that it does not clutter your mailbox with extra e-mail messages and does not require you to wait for a reply e-mail from the service in order to view the document attachment. Instead, everything is made transparent and the document opens up shortly after “Open with BeamBerry” is clicked.

BeamBerry viewer has the ability to open even very large documents. The time it takes to open a document will vary based on its size and other factors, but the solution is very scalable.

There is currently an issue with the service for the BlackBerry Pearl model. Our technical support team is working aggressively to resolve this issue and the service should be available shortly for that BlackBerry model. We apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused.

As this is an Early Access Program, we would sincerely appreciate any feedback you could provide for how we may improve BeamBerry. If you encounter any issues, please notify us and we will work to resolve them promptly.

]]> By: Lungboy http://www.blackberrycool.com/2007/01/30/beam-your-documents-from-your-berry/comment-page-1/#comment-78239 Lungboy Tue, 30 Jan 2007 17:34:30 +0000 http://www.blackberrycool.com/2007/01/30/003432/#comment-78239 I took a look at it concerned it might be a trojan or phishing application.

The website was created December 26, 2006 and there was no identifying information about it.

After looking a bit further I think this is just a bad app. It uses your device as a relay to send an attachment to his server that creates a screenshot.

So you download the whole attachment from your BES/BIS, resend the whole attachment to his server, then download the image back to your device.

If you have a 6k document, that’s fine. If you have a 600k PDF, you’re going to use ~1.2 meg to view the attachment.

If you make a mistake and download a 10 Mb Powerpoint file, better dip into your kid’s education fund to pay for your wireless charges.

Interesting idea, but I don’t think it’s scaled, secure or feasible.

]]> By: Lungboy http://www.blackberrycool.com/2007/01/30/beam-your-documents-from-your-berry/comment-page-1/#comment-484873 Lungboy Tue, 30 Jan 2007 17:34:00 +0000 http://www.blackberrycool.com/2007/01/30/003432/#comment-484873 I took a look at it concerned it might be a trojan or phishing application.

The website was created December 26, 2006 and there was no identifying information about it.

After looking a bit further I think this is just a bad app. It uses your device as a relay to send an attachment to his server that creates a screenshot.

So you download the whole attachment from your BES/BIS, resend the whole attachment to his server, then download the image back to your device.

If you have a 6k document, that’s fine. If you have a 600k PDF, you’re going to use ~1.2 meg to view the attachment.

If you make a mistake and download a 10 Mb Powerpoint file, better dip into your kid’s education fund to pay for your wireless charges.

Interesting idea, but I don’t think it’s scaled, secure or feasible.

]]> By: Steve http://www.blackberrycool.com/2007/01/30/beam-your-documents-from-your-berry/comment-page-1/#comment-78215 Steve Tue, 30 Jan 2007 16:23:49 +0000 http://www.blackberrycool.com/2007/01/30/003432/#comment-78215 Does anyone know anything about this company – is it legitimate? Their web site offers NO information about a real business location/address, NO telephone numbers, and NO names of real people. And after searching for “beamberry” on Google, you see their web site was under construction as of 1/27/07.

]]> By: Steve http://www.blackberrycool.com/2007/01/30/beam-your-documents-from-your-berry/comment-page-1/#comment-484872 Steve Tue, 30 Jan 2007 16:23:00 +0000 http://www.blackberrycool.com/2007/01/30/003432/#comment-484872 Does anyone know anything about this company – is it legitimate? Their web site offers NO information about a real business location/address, NO telephone numbers, and NO names of real people. And after searching for “beamberry” on Google, you see their web site was under construction as of 1/27/07.

]]> By: Archiberry http://www.blackberrycool.com/2007/01/30/beam-your-documents-from-your-berry/comment-page-1/#comment-78209 Archiberry Tue, 30 Jan 2007 15:56:14 +0000 http://www.blackberrycool.com/2007/01/30/003432/#comment-78209 I think their server is overwhelmed with requests this morning… The software emails the document being viewed to their server and requests the thumbnails back.. Not sure how I feel about sending all my information to a third party.

]]> By: Archiberry http://www.blackberrycool.com/2007/01/30/beam-your-documents-from-your-berry/comment-page-1/#comment-484871 Archiberry Tue, 30 Jan 2007 15:56:00 +0000 http://www.blackberrycool.com/2007/01/30/003432/#comment-484871 I think their server is overwhelmed with requests this morning… The software emails the document being viewed to their server and requests the thumbnails back.. Not sure how I feel about sending all my information to a third party.

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