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If there’s a survey, J.D. Power and Associates conducts it. They come in all shapes and sizes, but the one we’re concerned with today is the Business Wireless Smartphone Customer Satisfaction Survey for 2007. Yes, the BlackBerry won. The rankings were based on the following areas: ease of operation (22 percent), operating system (21 percent), physical design (20 percent), audio (14 percent), batter aspects (13 percent), and utility features (10 percent).
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I wonder if it is a bad thing that I came into work this morning to find a printout of the following taped to my keyboard:

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Starting November 4, your cheapest BlackBerry access will come from Sprint. The nation’s third largest wireless carrier will offer unlimited e-mail, instant messaging, web browsing, data access, and text messaging for $30 per month. You also get access to Sprint On Demand and Sprint TV.
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We’ve all gotten the unwanted emails before – “Visit our casino!” “Increase your size!” “Buy prescriptions for less!” These types of emails are incredibly annoying, but not only that, they can also be incredibly dangerous, especially if they’re hitting a business mail server. Unwanted, advertorial email is called spam, and most junk mail filters are set to catch a lot of it.
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Steve Johnson of the Chicago Tribune brings an interesting point to light on his blog. Isn’t your BlackBerry the perfect medium for eBooks? Yes, we know that people decry the medium, saying they won’t want to read an entire book in electronic format. We empathize with that. We long ago tried to read eBooks in Adobe Reader, and quickly tired of the experience. Who wants to sit in front of their computer reading, anyway? However, devices like Sony’s PRS-505 are making eBooks far more practical. If you don’t want to drop $300 on a device like the PRS-505, you can just use your BlackBerry to read eBooks.
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Okay, so none of these are actual features that will be included when the BlackBerry 9000 series rolls out (they’ve already started registering the domain names). But our boy Russell Shaw at ZDNet lists a few features he’d like to see, or see improved, in the next line of BlackBerrys. Our personal favorite:
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It seems the whole world is on some social networking platform or another. Personally, we prefer Facebook. It’s a simple design, it’s interactive, and it does what it’s intended to do: keep you connected with friends and family. True, you could always access Facebook’s site through your BlackBerry, but this new partnership is a deeper integration.
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We figured this was going to happen at some point. Microsoft realizes that business are going mobile. It makes sense, right? They stand to gain more productivity if their employees can work from anywhere. Microsoft’s first foray into the mobile world was its Windows Mobile platform, which has seen decent success. They’ve been overshadowed, though, by the BlackBerry, which is still the business standard. Now, however, Microsoft has released software that makes management of business smart phones much like that of the BlackBerry. Competitive times, these are.
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Looks like we missed this one a while ago. No matter, though. It’s still something to be aware of. AppRiver, a secure hosted exchange service, has announced a partnership with Akamai Technologies to use their Application Performance Solutions program. This will increase AppRiver’s “performance, availability and scale of its secure hosted exchange service.” So it’s a better service at no extra cost.
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