Blackberry News & Articles

Last week, we mentioned that RIM may or may not be releasing a tablet device in the near future. We suggested that BlackBerry may need to find a niche for whom the new device would be best suited, much the way the iPad has appealed to geeks and gamers. A commenter reminded us that BlackBerries already have an audience: suits, lackeys and IT managers. Yet, according to a new study, even that niche is waning.

Have you heard the rumor that Research in Motion is developing a tablet device? Of course you have. The Wall Street Journal reports that the device will include a 7-inch display, WiFi connectivity and a new operating system that RIM has yet to unveil. There is no word on pricing or availability.

With pressure on digital asset vendors to provide products that give an edge over standard video management capabilities that now come with many Enterprise CMS, Extensis (news, site)  has just released v9.5 of its Portfolio Server with improved set-up options and better web client features for file selection.

This week’s release of SilverDust v2.4 for Blackberry (news, site) continues to build on its integration with SharePoint and adds enhancements to BlackBerry’s ability to access SharePoint 2010 workflows and document reviews.

Busy, Busy, Busy. Labour Day weekend over and right back into it. This week document capture features quite large, with a couple of new solutions and Kofax hitting the high notes with its end-of-year figures. Hyland Software has also been looking at document and content security.

A new report, Market Overview: Smartphone Management, by Forrester estimates that in the next 12 to 18 months, IT managers will change the way they manage client computing strategies, impacting smartphone management in the enterprise.

This week, the mobile enterprise advises developers about the security of their mobile applications, while RIM continues to be subjected to strict scrutiny regarding their security.

There’s a mixed bag of news for SMBs this week, the principal item -- if in fact it’s true -- is that BlackBerry maker Research in Motion (RIM) may be getting ready to launch the unconfirmed BlackPad. Meanwhile, Google has given Gmail contacts a bit of a makeover.

A SharePoint rival and collaboration-DM-done-easy outfit Box.net (news, site) welcomed a new chief operating officer to drive the company onto bigger, better things.

This week, when we say mobile, you say security.

We had planned to kick off our focus on Enterprise Collaboration today, but it seems there are a couple of holidays in our way -- in Canada and the UK. So we thought we'd wait for everyone to arrive for the party to start. 

To get you ready for tomorrow, here's a post that Hutch Carpenter wrote in June after the Boston Enterprise 2.0 conference: When Should Management Push Enterprise 2.0 Adoption? This is just a sample of the interesting guest contributions to come over the month in addition to some of our own ideas and concepts.

If you find yourself interested in contributing to the conversation and think you have some great ideas to share, drop us a line editors@cmswire.com.

If simple is beautiful, then the new file delivery service from mobile software vendor SmithMicro is close to being a masterpiece if only for the practicality and general all-round usefulness of it.

Microsoft (news, site) is going to need a vibrant store if its Mobile 7 series is to take off in a big way. How to get developers interest? Offer them some hard cash.

H3 Solutions (news, site) has announced the second major release of their SharePoint mobile application framework, Mobile Entrée, and it's packed with business intelligence, dashboards and custom theming.

This week the mobile enterprise reveals the secret lives of business travelers, while Blackberry and iPhone jostle for position.