Live with BES

BES – BlackBerry Enterprise Server.  Yep we’ve finally got our production implementation online and are in the process of bringing in our first set of consumers (or pilot testers).

Exciting times, if the usefulness of BlackBerry is as well received as VPN was, we’ll see a sharp uptake of users by the end of the year.  Neat stuff!

Personally I don’t want one though I wouldn’t mind using Microsoft’s solution to access the same information – here’s to getting that in the door!

Comparing Vonage to MCI

Daniel Berininger has a comparison piece over on Om Malik’s blog on the similarities of Vonage and MCI.  Its an interesting piece, with interesting comments as well.

Though I would love to cheer for the underdog, I still think Vonage will not end up being a powerful competitor in the voice market.  There are simply too many other options for voice solutions which I’ve talked about before.
Most people will end up using mobile phones only, others will switch to their cable company offerings, many more will simply stick with whatever former RBOC they already have, and finally others will simply use some type of free voice offering from the likes of Skype, Google, Yahoo, Microsoft and others.

Sorry folks, VOIP is where its at for landlines, its just that Vonage isn’t the heir appearent.

Via: GigaOM

Nice review of Thinkoutside Bluetooth Keyboard

jkOnTheRun has posted a very nice review of the Think Outside Stowaway Universal Bluetooth Keyboard. This is the same keyboard that I’ve been using for about 9 months now. Its been very easy to use, and very reliable.
About 2 years ago I had bought a ‘low price’ infrared keyboard from Belkin ($40), which lasted about 1 year. In the last 3 months about 10 keys mysteriously started to malfunction. This was really strange to me since it was sitting on my desk, not in my computer bag where I could understand if it got the snot beat out of it.
Also, this keyboard’s drivers include support for Think Outside’s own bluetooth Stowaway Travel Mouse, which happens to work wonderfully with the keyboard on my T-Mobile MDA running Windows Mobile 5.

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