Seems there is no shortage of BlackBerry Internet Service information these days. The BIS 3.0/3.1 documents contain a few long awaited changes. The folks over at BBLeaks were once again tipped off to more BIS 3.0 information. After having looked at the files, some of what we had learned from the last leak was once again confirmed. Check out the run down. GMail - The enhanced plugin...
It wasn't that long ago we heard rumors of BIS 3.0 and 3.1 coming our way soon and bringing with it, a bunch of highly anticipated changes. This time around, we're hearing from BBLeaks that there are a few more additions we can expect as well. Support For OpenOffice Documents - Presentations, Text documents and spreadsheets Support for WMA (Windows Media Audio) Support for...
With a title like that I'm sure some of you out there are asking why would I want to clear my address book? Well, let's face it even though BlackBerry does a good job of contacts synchronization through Outlook and various other methods, unless you are on a BES it has a tendency to wreak havoc on occassion. Duplicate entries, missing email addresses or just general chaos can happen....
As we've been advised by Audit over at Dataoutages, Rogers and RIM have planned some downtime for their BlackBerry users on BIS and BES systems on January 17th. The window of downtime is not really that bad, depending on what type of hours you sleep. Start Time: 02:00 AM (EDT) End Time: 06:00 AM (EDT) with the outage being that of a National one for Rogers Wireless customers. "Work...
*Update* - 2:30pm ET - It looks like BIS is slooooowly starting to come back to life. Some blackberry.net emails are coming through, but it looks like thats about it for now. A statement issued by RIM says they have isolated the issue, and are in the process of restoring email to all users. The tip line is going to explode - it looks like BIS email is down for most carriers across...
We all need the answers to our FAQs PDQ, or is that ASAP? And if you have been to a techie website before you’ll know that there isn’t an acronym or abbreviation that an IT person hasn’t met and loved. So in the interest of clarity, here is our list of abbreviations that you may come across when discussing BBs and PDAs in general APN - Access Point Network. A server specific...
BlackBerry Internet Service 2.0 has been available since last June. I recently upgraded from 1.8, and I’m very impressed. BlackBerry Internet Service (BIS) allows you to integrate your BlackBerry with up to 10 email accounts, send and receive instant messages, and browse web content from your BlackBerry. You get “push” delivery of messages, and mobile access to email attachments and...