Posted on September 10, 2009, at 11:21 AM .
RIM will be hosting its first ever developer webinar at 2 pm EST today, September 10th. The free webinar will present an overview of web development for BlackBerry smartphones and describe best practices for creating great mobile web applications.
Today’s webinar will include:
- Demonstrations of the BlackBerry Plug-in for Microsoft Visual Studio v1.2 and the BlackBerry Web Development Plug-in for Eclipse v1.0.
- A discussion on the benefits of using these development tools to preview, debug and profile your web applications for the BlackBerry Browser.
- Tips & Tricks on how web applications can be optimized for the BlackBerry Browser and an overview of techniques to increase visibility of web content to the BlackBerry community.
- A Q&A period where answers to questions raised can be provided in real time.
If you can’t make the webinar, a recording will be made available a few days after.
If you’re interested in participating in the webinar, register now!
Posted on June 23, 2009, at 9:55 AM .

Next Tuesday, June 30th, Zenprise will be hosting a free Webinar highlighting five best practices for managing heterogeneous smartphone environments.
Drew Collier, Systems Operation Manager at Shook, Hardy, Bacon LLP, will share best practice policies and technologies for addressing the support of heterogeneous mobile devices. He will discuss how to enable multi-device support while delivering on the promise of mobile productivity. Attendees will learn how to:
- Support different devices without burdening IT
- Define multi-device support processes for the help desk
- Modify organizational processes to provision, manage, and support different smartphones
- Provide comparable service levels across all smartphones
- Reduce trouble tickets by more than 50 percent
- Reduce mean time to repair by more than 70 percent
- Realize between 100 percent and 600 percent productivity improvements.
Be sure to watch the Webinar for Ahmed Datoo, vice president of product management at Zenprise, because he will be sharing the latest industry research on the growth of consumer-owned smartphones in the enterprise space. He’ll also conduct a live demo highlighting how to manage and monitor heterogeneous smartphone environments.
To register, visit the Webinar page and leave your contact details.