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BlackBerry Internet Service vs. BlackBerry Enterprise Server

While the BlackBerry solution is now a household name, what is less well known is that there are two main BlackBerry smartphone mobile connectivity options, and they are quite different. The first is the BlackBerry Internet Service, in which your mobile carrier acts as a liaison between your email and your BlackBerry smartphone.

The BlackBerry Internet Service offering is a standalone service, a BlackBerry Enterprise Server integrates with Microsoft Exchange/Outlook. With a BlackBerry Enterprise Server, the data from these platforms is accessible directly from the BlackBerry smartphone, which enables near real-time mobile access to corporate data.

If you’re using a BlackBerry smartphone solely for personal email, then a BlackBerry Internet Service account may be all you need. But if you’re a business user and are only using BlackBerry Internet Service, you’re leaving lots of important functionality unused.

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Windows 7 Install

I wanted to share with you my experience with Windows 7 so far.

This is my 3.5 yr old DELL Precision 370  3.2GHv proc / 2GB RAM / RAID 0  nothing else fancy in it.

 

So I tackled this , what I thought would be an upgrade last week,  I put the DVD in, ran the compatibility checker , showed me I was clean.   It did tell me to de authorize ITunes.

I put the DVD in and it asked if you want to upgrade to do it fresh.  I choose upgrade.  It then runs thru a number of information gathering tasks , setting gathering etc…

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