Israeli start-up Cellact, a developer of cellular messaging technology, has begun marketing a system to kibbutzim (collective communities), towns and factories in northern Israel that enables the issue of warnings of missile attacks. The system, which will be available to subscribers of all cellular companies, will issue a warning of a missile or bomb attack, shooting, or other emergency announcements.
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Created especially for the BlackBerry platform, WIC allows business and public safety officials to update emergency response plans, create forms and check lists, view images, monitor camera feeds, locate personnel and retain legally mandated records.
Sounds interesting, I hope many people gets help in crisis situations.
Because I tested the programs and reviewed them I had them for free. Just a day ago I have purchased the license of NextAction! for myself. Why? Because we have received this special offer I have already posted to you
Because I was using a friend’s BlackBerry with BlackBerry OS 4.1 in the first review everything worked fine. However, I started the program on my private BlackBerry and had to see that it hangs. Directly at the start! Sometimes it stays in the BlackBerry desktop and sometimes there comes a black or white screen up and nothing happens anymore. Of course, I got some kind of angry and wrote after some tries and wrote to the customer support.
Once more, it was my mistake. I did not read the product page exactly where it is written: “NextAction! needs BlackBerry OS 4.1 or higher.”. What the hack?!? I thought and checked the BlackBerry OS version. It was really an old one and so I used the information from our article “How to upgrade your BlackBerry to OS 4.1″ (thanks god that we have such informative ones) and upgraded to BlackBerry OS 4.1. Suddenly - it worked like a charm!
So please keep in your mind to read the product description as good as you can. Not only at this specific product, I mean at all products you consider to purchase, doesn’t if it is software on the internet or pizza cheese at Wal Mart.
According to many rumors in some forums, serious and nonserious blogs RIM has now, more or less, official announces the next generation of BlackBerry devices featuring more multimedia features and more memory in a “thinner and lighter design”. We knew it!
Executives told shareholders at the company’s annual general meeting last night that expanding into these two markets with new products is a key goal of the next 12 months.
Next generation BlackBerrys will have improved radio performance, multimedia features, expandable memory and will boast a thinner and lighter design, said Mike Lazaridis, the president and co-chief executive.
Jim Balsillie, chairman and co-CEO, suggested that the new devices could appear as early as October.
Aircharge credit card payment device is certified to operate on Research in Motion’s BlackBerry devices with service by Sprint Nextel Corp.
Does this mean, only SprintNextel customers are able to do payments with their BlackBerry? I would like to see open program which do not privilege special carrier customers.
In an article at Bloomberg Mr. John van den Berg, a fund manager at AZL Vermogensbeheer in Heerlen, Netherlands, said:
Phone makers need to innovate and bring some tougher competition to the likes of BlackBerry to raise the growth rates in developed markets
That is right. In my humble opinion the BlackBerry has one of the most imporved service pipeline in the backend and one of the most loyal customers in the market. Once a company has decided to use the BlackBerry with its BES / HBES infrastructure it will not change this for next couple years. You can compare this with Microsoft, its market leading operating system Windows and of course the unforgetable Microsoft Office suite. Companies and governments have to make a huge step to jump over to a competing environment. So RIM has currently an advantage in northern america and the still emerging europe but I am very curious about the situation in China mainland in the next few years.
We already reported about RIMs plans to get into the chinese mainland market. According to an Shanghai Daily article the first BlackBerry will be released in cooperation with China Mobile in February 2007. It will be a 8700 model and is expected to cost about 5,000 yuan (US$625). “Many companies including IBM China, Nortel China, GE China and Tencent (QQ) have promised to use BlackBerry once the device is available on the mainland.”
For companies with a low IT budget who are in need of a BlackBerry Enterpise Server - this might be the solution: RIM introduces Hosted BlackBerry Enterprise Servers offered through third-party service providers. David Wilmering, product marketing director for Research In Motion: “This way there’s no up-front costs and smaller enterprises can pay as they grow.� For more information click here.
Learn to make the most out of your BlackBerry by watching BlackBerry Webcasts. RIM offers with the “Blackberry Enterprise Resource Center” a huge pool of information inlcuding webcasts. Best of it: it is all for free!
Examples of upcoming webcasts:
Security Behind BlackBerry
Bluetooth Peripherals For BlackBerry: Effective Solutions For Mobile Workers
Real World Uses of Barcode Scanners and Point of Sale Peripherals for BlackBerry
BlackBerry for Financial Services Using Mobility to Differentiate Yourself
The Chinese market is biggest mobile market on earth, with at least 400 million mobile phone users courntrywide.
There is an interesting “Canadian TV Interview,RIM’s Blackberry entering China market” which deals with the risks and oportunities of RIM by entering the Chinese mobile market. Of course, it is a fact that the governmental control in all major communication technologies has its position established. Since Cisco Systems is working with the government for years to develop the best high performance internet filters on the world, there will be a control on the communication traffic.
However, the BlackBerry is known for its secure communication channels by delivering data (mostly the pushed mails) encrypted. So if RIM does not “coorporate” with the government at the BlackBerry Enterprise Server level I would have no concerns on using my BlackBerry in China Mainland.
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