BlackBerry Internet Service

Research In Motion announced this week that latest BlackBerry 7 devices have been granted Federal Information Processing Standard (FIPS) 140-2 certification by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and the Communications Security Establishment Canada (CSEC).

The 140-2 certification is recognized by the U.S. and Canadian governments and is required under the Federal Information Security Management Act of 2002 for devices to be used by government employees.

RIM has long produced extremely secure smartphones, which is why it has been the platform of choice financial and government workers for a decade. RIM’s PlayBook also achieved government clearance last summer making it the first tablet to get a security clearance.

Details of RIM’s press release can be found here.

Details of the security features of the BlackBerry smartphone can be found here.

This process will walk through the process of upgrading and migrating an existing BlackBerry® Internet Service account to use BlackBerry® ID via e-mail settings.

1.Once the SIM card has been moved over to the new BlackBerry smartphone running BlackBerry® 7 software and booted up go to the Email setup icon
2.Once the email settings application starts it will go through the following process:

• Checking for updates
• Prompt to enter the BlackBerry ID and Password
• Next there will be a prompt stating what will occur upon logging in
• Click the Ok button and it will verify the BlackBerry ID
• Next it will prompt to activate all email addresses currently integrated on the BlackBerry Internet Service account. The password will need to be entered for each integration to activate them and complete the migration a.Note If the password or secret question for their hosted email account is unknown follow the Hosted password reset process listed under CSO Process KB24162
• Once all email integration’s are activated the normal E-mail settings screen will be presented

3.After the BlackBerry Internet Service account has completed the migration the username in the BIS administration tool will simply state BlackBerry ID.

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A reset of a BlackBerry smartphone is a troubleshooting method that completely turns off and restarts the BlackBerry smartphone’s operating system software and applications. It is a useful first step if a BlackBerry smartphone is experiencing hardware, software, or wireless network problems.

Note: A reset of a BlackBerry smartphone does not delete any settings or data. continue

Synchronising the contacts and calendar through BlackBerry Desktop Software to Outlook is easy to do, and allows the user to keep both their device and Outlook up to date with any changes.

Before you start, make a back-up of the handset. continue

Research In Motion announced this week BlackBerry Business Cloud Services for Microsoft Office 365 – a new RIM-hosted online service for mid-sized businesses and enterprises that extends Microsoft Exchange Online to BlackBerry smartphones, and allows organisations to self-manage their BlackBerry deployments in the cloud. An open beta for the service is launching today in over 30 countries. continue

After testing in the Beta Zone, RIM have released an update of BlackBerry App World, version 3.0.1.29.

This latest update seems to have fixed a lot of issues including performance and UI enhancements, elimination of erroneous multiple update requests, optimizing memory usage and increased stability.

Users should soon receive a notification in the next few days. However it can be downloaded on the handset by accessing  RIM’s official BlackBerry App World download page and selecting Download it Today.

From today until the end of the year, RIM has offered a selection of premium apps to download for free to users’ BlackBerrys, as an apology for last week’s outage.

RIM’s CEO, Mike Lazaridis said, in a press release “We truly appreciate and value our relationship with our customers.  We’ve worked hard to earn their trust over the past 12 years, and we’re committed to providing the high standard of reliability they expect, today and in the future.” continue

BlackBerry services buzzed back to life Thursday after a three-day outage that interrupted email messages and Internet services for millions of customers.

BlackBerry users around the world have faced huge problems over the past few days getting and receiving emails and messages, as well as launching Internet services. continue

The BlackBerry Internet Service (BIS) is designed to provide BlackBerry smartphone users with access to email messaging, instant messaging, Internet browsing, and more. BlackBerry Internet Service subscribers can receive automatic delivery of email messages from up to ten email accounts on their BlackBerry smartphones. continue

The BlackBerry 9900 was first announced back in May 2011. After a week of it being released, here’s our review:

The Handset

An initial impression once I got my hands on it is the build. It is a tiny bit weightier than the BlackBerry 9700 I have been using for the past few months, however the quality of it is sturdy with the smooth fascia surrounded by the brushed metal bevelled edging. The back is a mixture of rubberized plastic topped with a carbon fibre look inlay. The buttons along the edging are metal as well, and you have the screen lock button at the top, volume control buttons on the right hand side (with an extra button between them for pause and play). Below this, you have the one and only side convenience key, default programmed for camera. Unfortunately, it’s placing means that quite often I accidently pressed it and launched the camera. On the other side you have the micro USB port and headphone jack. Also along the bottom you have the contact points for the desktop charger. continue