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A Tale Of Two BlackBerrys: How The Bold & The Storm Are Faring So Far

2008-12-03T16:40:00.000-08:00

A Tale Of Two BlackBerrys: How The Bold & The Storm Are Faring So Far
By Susan Nunziata

This month saw two prominent BlackBerry product launches, the BlackBerry Bold from AT&T -- which uses a traditional QWERTY keypad -- and the touchscreen BlackBerry Storm from Verizon.

Both phones garnered a good deal of excitement when announced.

The Bold was premiered back in May 2008 but didn't go on sale in the U.S. until Election Day, Nov. 4. In the interim, reports surfaced about delays and products being pulled off the shelves in other markets.

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RIM Shares drop last week!

2008-12-01T13:55:00.000-08:00

Research in Motion (NASDAQ: RIMM) was last week’s loss leader down 5.2 percent. While MySpace and RIM shattered download records with 400,000 downloads of Blackberry smart phone applications, little could be down to settle analysts concerns regarding OS problems on the new Blackberry Storm.

Nortel (NYSE: NT) saw the week’s biggest gain of 35.7 percent, but also the months biggest loss at 1.3 percent. The stock is trading well below a dollar and is still listed as a hold by many analysts.

State of the smart

2008-12-01T08:38:00.000-08:00

With 2008 drawing to a close, Icon's experts recap an eventful and entertaining year in technology.

MOBILE PHONES

iPhone. That's just about all you need to say about mobile phones in 2008 because almost every newsworthy development seemed to hinge on Apple's sexy smartphone.

There was the local launch of the device itself, which saw queues stretching around the blocks on a chilly mid-winter morning in July. There was the subsequent meltdown of Optus's 3G network, as iPhone users attracted by the carrier's best-in-class deals swarmed onto the airwaves and choked the 3G channels with their browsing and downloading.

Even the launch of other mobile phones was often seen through the iPhone filter. Did it have a touchscreen? Was it an "iPhone killer"? Nokia, Samsung, LG and HTC all lined up to release their own touchphones.

This month we'll even see a touchscreen BlackBerry in the shape of the BlackBerry Storm, although the August launch of the more conventional BlackBerry Bold created plenty of excitement among the mobile email community.

But the real game-changer will be the next generation of mobile phones powered by Google's Android operating system. The first of these touched down in November in the US, and plenty are sure to follow next year. The reason? Android is freely available to any mobile phone manufacturer and leverages Google's free suite of internet services, such as email, news, searching and maps.

LAPTOPS

The computing tables turned in 2008 as laptops outsold desktop PCs for the first time. Driven by the lure of portability and go-anywhere computing, and buoyed by wireless access to the internet through public Wi-Fi hotspots and high-speed 3G networks, laptops are expected to eventually hold two-thirds of the overall computer market.

Most of the action is happening at the smaller and slimmer end of the scale, with Intel cooking up tiny superchips to suit. The aptly named Atom processor, for example, can pack two million transistors into the full stop at the end of this line.

The Atom is the powerplant of "netbooks" - those compact Lilliputian laptops with screens about 23 centimetres and price tags hovering at the $700 mark. This year saw almost every major notebook manufacturer release at least one netbook model and already the range is diversifying to include models with larger screens (now up to 30 centimetres, in the case of Dell's Inspiron Mini 12) and stylishly thin designs (such as Asus's Eee PC S101).

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OBAMA TRYING TO KEEP HIS BLACKBERRY

2008-11-27T07:08:00.000-08:00

IN THE NEWS: OBAMA TRYING TO KEEP HIS BLACKBERRY

CHICAGO (AP) - Not so fast on the idea that President-elect Barack Obama will have to give up his BlackBerry once he takes the oath as president. In his TV interview yesterday with Barbara Walters, Obama says he is still trying to find a way to hang on to his mobile communications device. Some security experts have noted that any e-mail sent to or from Obama would be subject to public scrutiny or even a subpoena. And there's concern that having celluar contact might be subject to snooping -- or having his whereabouts tracked. For Obama, his biggest concern is to keep from being isolated from everyone except those in his inner circle. He says "1 of the worst things" that can happen to a president is to lose touch with what people are going through in their day-to-day lives.

True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost.
Charles Caleb Colton

TiVo and Blackberry

2008-11-26T07:48:00.001-08:00

By the end of the year, a TiVo suite will be released that will allow Blackberry users to view electronic program guides (EPGs) and schedule recordings.

How to install MySpace for Blackberry

2008-11-25T10:05:00.000-08:00

More than 400,000 users downloaded the MySpace for BlackBerry smartphones application so far!

Of course these instructions assume that you already have a MySpace account.

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Crackberry Addiction!

2008-11-25T08:32:00.000-08:00

What is the Blackberry PIN?

2008-11-25T08:28:00.000-08:00

BlackBerry PIN is an eight character hexadecimal unique identification number assigned to each BlackBerry device. PINs cannot be changed and are locked to each handset device. BlackBerrys can message each other using the PIN directly or by using the Blackberry Messenger application.

Why did they name it "Blackberry"?

2008-11-25T08:23:00.000-08:00

RIM settled on the name "BlackBerry" only after weeks of work by Lexicon Branding Inc., the Sausalito, California-based firm that named Intel Corp.’s Pentium microprocessor and Apple’s PowerBook. One of the naming experts at Lexicon thought the miniature buttons on RIM’s product looked "like the tiny seeds in a strawberry," Lexicon founder David Placek says. "A linguist at the firm thought straw was too slow sounding. Someone else suggested blackberry. RIM went for it."^[11] Previously the device was called LeapFrog, alluding to the technology leaping over the current competition, and its placeholder name during brainstorm was the PocketLink.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BlackBerry

How the Blackberry Works

2008-11-25T08:20:00.001-08:00

You as the blackberry user is provided with the physical wireless handheld device in a pager style or a palm style design. These devices both have an integral wireless modem which allows them to be connected over multiple telecom wireless networks. The BB itself is equipped with a version of their own sophisticated wireless protocol enabling the BB to connect with the similar blackberry message centers.

The BB is supported by the RIM operated BB message center. E-mails addressed to the mobile device directly are controlled by this message center using apprppriate internet protocols and then delivered to the BB device using the RIM wireless protocols. The modem remains on constantly to assure incoming messages are captured and the mobile BB then contacts the user as the new message arrives.

When sending a message, the BB user writes the message as they would an other e-mail and then sends it to the BBy message center with the aid of the RIM protocols. The message center then delivers the e-mail to the recipient using the normal internet e-mail protocols.

Many BB owners like their BB to perform as a wireless tool of an existing e-mail account. The user may opt to use their BB system function as a real time extension of their Microsoft Outlook mail program. At this point, the BB user would install the desktop redirector software on their pc in order to accept e-mail onto the BB.

When the BB user sends a message, the message center would send the message to its recepient as usual and it sends a message to the desktop redirector program to facilitate the mailbox sync between the BB and the desktop pc e-mail application. Another kind of sync is used for forwarding, deleted etc using the RIM protocols.

For integration into company e-mail systems, RIM provides the BB enterprise server which will integrate with the corporate MS exchange message center. This server acts in similar fashion as the desktop redirector talked about above with one difference, the sync action is at the message center rather than at the users desktop mail application. Themessages are delivered to the message center and then delivered to the BB.

Similar in operation with one difference. The company enterprise server functionss at a server level whereas the desktop redirector software operates on a desktop pc level.

Take Notes on Your Blackberry While You Are on the Phone

2008-11-25T08:01:00.000-08:00

While on the call, click the trackwheel.
Scroll to notes.
Select notes, then type away.
Learn that the notes will stay attached to the phone number in the log. You can attach notes and forward them to a colleague if needed. Call Log on.