"It was horrible, " said Jankiel Santos, chief economist at BES Investimento in Sao Paulo.
Everything else is a moot point (BES encryption hacks, the existence of back doors, compromised third party applications, etc.).
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Still, it is disappointing that the BB ecosystem will see this fragmentation between the current implementation of BES and the next-generation one.
The new mobile device management software is an evolved version of the BES that is compatible with iOS and Android platforms as well.
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In fact, BES 10 is a logical next step for Mobile Fusion where all the different devices are brought together under one umbrella.
Many corporate customers said they had not lost service, suggesting that the problem was with Blackberry's BIS consumer systems, rather than its BES enterprise systems.
BPS, meanwhile, is designed for small offices where full-fledged BES might be overkill, but RIM's tendency to let the package stagnate after a BES release probably sealed its fate.
The article also mentions that RIM is working on a QNX-specific BlackBerry Enterprise Server but that the first QNX smartphone will launch without support for its current BES versions.
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Several conflicting reports about the BES 10 later, RIM clarified things with a company official shedding more light on the BlackBerry Enterprise Server upgrade roadmap late last month.
This means that organizations that do not upgrade all of their devices to BB10 will need to run the existing BES server alongside BDS to support the older devices.
These are the folks who have aged with the company itself, shelling out for its BES services -- and who RIM expects to stay faithful through thick and thin.
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For one thing, the Mahoney-McCann team should be able to figure out a way to drive home the huge advantage that Volt, as a plug-in hybrid, enjoys over the all-electric wanna-bes.
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To be sure, RIM will still support BES 5 for the foreseeable future but it is clearly counting on organisations upgrading all their existing BB devices to the new BB10 ones.
Rolls-Royce was throwing a brunch for a few VIPs (owners and seriously prospective wanna bes) at a stucco place just off the main path in Water Mill, so we roared up the road to have a bite.
Or bring along your BlackBerry Enterprise Server administrator so he can try to prove our contention, that deploying a mobile device management solution such as Sybase Afaria can match or top BES for security, is flat-out wrong .
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That didn't affect the Perrys, but their neighbors at Marina Bay, Sally and Keith Huzyak, used the mortgage deduction to the max when they combined the mortgage on their primary home, a Lake Tahoe condo, and their 66-foot Pollycraft motor yacht, the Bes-ame ("kiss me" in Spanish).
The team presenting details of their study at the recent BES annual meeting in Birmingham said there was growing concern regarding the potential cascading effects deer may have on other components of biodiversity, such as fewer suitable nesting sites for birds and a reduction in food sources for other woodland species.
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