“Rogers Communications Inc., the nation’s largest wireless company, plans to launch its own branded mobile e-mail service this week that will compete with Research In Motion Ltd.’s popular BlackBerry service.” The move is part of a growing effort by carriers to sign up more customers for lucrative wireless data plans…

CRN | Breaking News | AOL Welcomes Four IM Players To Its Network: “America Online is opening the on-ramp to millions of its instant messaging (IM) users via a new alliance with four enterprise IM (EIM) suppliers. Starting in a few months, business users with Antepo, Jabber Inc., Omnipod or…

Download this sample to view the Amazon.com catalog directly from the Research task pane in Microsoft Office 2003 Editions. This sample accompanies the MSDN article “Creating an Office 2003 Research Service using the Amazon Web Service API,” available from Related Resources. [Via Microsoft Download Center] This gives a nice insight…

Softwareleverancier Mamut ASA levert samen met Microsoft en Dell een complete bedrijfssoftwareoplossing voor kleine bedrijven tot vijftig medewerkers. [Via Computable RSS]

Redmond | Print: Third Parties Roll Out Support for Microsoft Collaboration Tools: “Third-party companies this week rolled out services and add-on products to complement Microsoft�s Office Live Communications Server 2005 (LCS) real-time collaboration tools. For its part, Microsoft announced it will ship its much-awaited client, originally codenamed “Istanbul” and now…

Zoals de oplettende lezers van mijn blog wellicht al is opgevallen heb ik op gezette tijden wat kritische blogjes over RIM BlackBerry. Niet in technisch opzicht, maar met name de mogelijkheden van het platform buiten mobiel email en met name het business model. Nu heeft ook Gartner Group zich kritisch…

Gartner Says Wireless E-Mail will be a Built-In Application on All Smartphones by the End of 2008: “Gartner analysts presented the future of wireless applications during the Gartner Wireless & Mobile Summit, which is being held here April 11-13. Gartner analysts said wireless e-mail is becoming a mainstream application alongside…

IBM – Supported Configurations for Upgrade to Notes Domino Extended Products 6.5.1 When reading about a number of the updated features in LN 6.5.4. I asked myself wait a minute, the Notes community is always hammering Mircosoft that the platform is very complex (many server products, etc). But when looking…

Jan de Waal, de man achter ondermeer blackberry.pagina.nl reageerde vandaag op een blogje van mij eerder deze week. In zijn commentaar liet hij niet na aan te geven dat hij ook iets van doen heeft met Digibieb (zo werkt dat nou eenmaal). NIeuwsgierig als ik ben heb ik gelijk maar…

BBC NEWS | Business | Blackberry squares up to rivals: “The Canadian company behind the Blackberry, the wireless e-mail device beloved by business executives and celebrities, is bearing the fruits of a year of rapid subscriber growth. Yet, as the sector expands, market leader Research In Motion (RIM) faces challengers…