Posted on February 16, 2010, at 2:47 PM .
Research in Motion held a conference call today to go over the details on it’s new service: BES Express.
The call told the story about how the new service came to be and shared some insight as to who they think can benefit from it.
From the millions of new BIS subscribers yearly, many consumer BlackBerry users are naturally bringing their devices into the workplace. BES Express is a way in which small and medium-sized businesses can sync email and calendar events when getting a full BES license is not in the cards. This new flavor of BES bridges the gap between BIS and BES allowing these businesses to use their devices to their fullest.
Posted on February 15, 2010, at 2:53 PM .
There have been a lot of rumors circulating about RIM’s big announcement and most of them point to RIM offering an inexpensive and watered down version of BES to BIS customers. The upcoming services will be aimed at giving out some of the enterprise functionality such as OTA sync, backup and restore and well as remote data wipe. Click through for the rumored details of the announcement.
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Posted on January 25, 2010, at 10:50 AM .
BBleaks threw up some more details about BIS 3.0 and I’m personally really looking forward to this. The latest info about BIS 3.0, tells us we’ll see:
- OpenOffice file support: presentations, text documents and spreadsheets.
- Support for WMA (Windows Media Audio).
Previously, we heard BIS 3.0, coming in March of 2010, will improve the Gmail plugin so as to sync deleted, read/unread and sent messages between the messages folder and your Gmail. BIS 3.0 will also include the ability to add and remove labels from your device.
BIS 3.1, which is rumored to arrive soon after, will feature the ability to:
- Synchronize Google Calendar
- Synchronize your address book from Hotmail account
- Synchronize your address book from Yahoo
- Yahoo mailbox will cause an automatic download of Yahoo messenger on the device
Posted on January 18, 2010, at 9:34 AM .
SMobile’s Global Threat Center (GTC) has released a research study on proof of concept malicious applications that could potentially infect the BlackBerry platform. The paper concludes that there are certain instances of attacks that may be successful in bypassing BlackBerry’s security framework, and poses a significant risk to the confidentiality of the user. Since SMobile Security is in the business of creating anti-virus protection for mobile, it’s obviously in their best interests to release a report exposing “significant risks”, but nonethless they may be on to something.
The report was created using a Proof-of-Concept malicious application that focuses specifically on a BlackBerry using the BIS network. These BlackBerrys run on a weakened security platform when compared to the BES, and are primarily protected using a permissions accepted or denied by the user. Some of the questions this report brings to mind are: is the increasing number of BIS subscribers, going to affect the overall security of the BlackBerry platform? What will a primarily BIS customer base do to the reputation of BlackBerry as the most secure platform? Are permissions enough to protect a user who is new to smartphones, and may not know the harm a malicious application can cause?
Download the full report here.
Posted on December 17, 2009, at 2:39 PM .
The WSJ is reporting that RIM has isolated and resolved the BIS issue that affected some BlackBerry customers this morning.
“Some customers may still experience delays as email queues are processed,” RIM said in an emailed statement. “RIM is continuing to investigate the cause of the issue and apologizes for any inconvenience.”
According to a Sprint spokeswoman, Crystal Davis, the outage was caused when something went awry during a maintenance check. She goes on to say the outage began at 3AM and even though users were experiencing delays in receiving emails, BBM was not affected.
Anyone still experiencing slow email on BIS?
Posted on December 8, 2009, at 9:35 AM .
China Mobile and RIM have announced plans to support TD-SCDMA and TD-LTE technologies for the BlackBerry solution. China Mobile and RIM have also announced that they plan to launch BIS and BlackBerry for small to medium-sized businesses and enterprise.
BIS is expected to be available in 2010 by China Mobile. BIS will also be complemented with customized content through services such as Mobile Market, FETION and other Web-based services.
With all the news coming out about BlackBerry in China, take the time to read Owen Wong’s Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About BlackBerry in China.
