Thursday, July 13, 2006

Blackberry Updates

T-Mobile has released a free Blackberry OS update for their 7290 series - which includes some minor, but pleasant improvements. Addressing emails is easier than ever since name selections now appear as you type directly in the "To:" field. There is a vastly improved calculator which doesn't require you to use the wheel - and there is also a free Instant Messaging client that allows you to IM on AOL, ICQ, MSN and Yahoo.

It is disappointing that Blackberry hasn't come up with a rich email client yet. That plain text signature is a sure fire giveaway that you're not at your desk - or (gasp!) not even in the office.

We recently applied Service Pack 3 to the Blackberry Enterprise Server - and BES Alert began taxing the server's CPU - keeping the processor in the 40-60% range. The solution, for now, was to simply turn off the BES Alert service. It reminds me of a problem we had with GroupShield for Exchange a couple years ago - where McAfee was tapping out the processor at 100% until the Exchange Server would crash.

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