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Mobility

iPhone and the myth of a 2-year contract with AT&T

October 14, 2011

Windows Phone 7.5 (‘Mango’) is now available to all customers, a remarkably quick and smooth update this time around. The Windows Phone team has proved it’s learning how to handle updates and work with the number of Windows Phone device manufacturers – Acer, HTC, and Samsung to name a few, and carriers across the world. [...]

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Exchange ActiveSync: What is the Allow/Block/Quarantine List?

November 16, 2010

If you’re an Exchange admin happy about how Exchange ActiveSync just hums along with mobile devices supporting the EAS protocol, and the multitude of devices that can now access Exchange without any admin intervention (OTA device activation and all that…), but also unhappy about the multitude of devices that can now access Exchange without any [...]

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Exchange 2010 Personal Archives and Client Access

October 29, 2010

In Exchange 2010, you can provision Personal Archives for your users. A personal archive, or an archive mailbox, is an additional mailbox where users can move older messages or messages that they don’t need to access frequently but may still want to retain for a longer period. You can also apply a Retention Policy to [...]

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iPhone 4 Issues: Proximity Sensor, Dropped Calls, And The Free Bumper

September 8, 2010

I continue to live with the self-induced inconvenience of carrying an iPhone 4, and the resulting dropped calls. In fact, over time the dropped calls issue seems to be getting worse, and combined with the proximity sensor issue it seems to make the iPhone 4 virtually unusable about half the time. Photo courtesy Gizmodo Most [...]

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Windows Phone 7 RTMs

September 1, 2010

Terry Myerson, CVP @Windows Phone, announced over on the Windows Phone blog that Windows Phone 7 has been released to manufacturing today. Congratulations to the Windows Phone team— let the fun begin! It sure has been a long wait, and unlike traditional hardware/software products, where RTM means you can probably download or purchase them on [...]

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Shekhar Kapur: A Blackberry addict discovers grassroots enterprise in India

August 9, 2010

Sethu Sethuraman, a professional photographer friend who moved back to India a few years ago, recently forwarded me this amazing story about India’s grassroots enterprise. The writer, Shekhar Kapur, is a critically acclaimed film director and producer. I can’t remember how many Windows Mobile, BlackBerry and iPhones I’ve cycled through over the past few years, [...]

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BlackBerry faces ban in UAE, Saudi Arabia, to cooperate in India

August 2, 2010

It appears to be an increasingly monitored world for mobile devices, as governments across the globe rev up their efforts to snoop into mobile messaging. UAE’s The National reports the country’s Telecommunications Regulatory Authority has said that BlackBerry Messenger, BlackBerry E-mail and BlackBerry Web-browsing services in the UAE will be suspended as of October 11. [...]

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Jailbreaking is for fugitives: US Govt sanctions unlocking of cell phones

July 26, 2010

The U.S. government has ruled to defeat what many of us thought of as the high-handedness of Apple and its wireless carrier of choice, AT&T — you can now legally unlock your iPhones! More than a million users have unlocked their iPhones, a practice that’s commonly known as jailbreaking. However, jailbreaking has negative connotations. One [...]

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iOS 4.0.1 Includes Exchange ActiveSync fix

July 15, 2010

Image courtesy Engadget: The iOS 4 issue wit Exchange ActiveSync (EAS) which resulted in iPhone 4 and other iOS devices running the OS not being able to sync with Exchange Server (see Apple fixes issue with iOS 4 and Exchange ActiveSync), has been fixed in iOS 4.0.1. Earlier Apple released a configuration profile to change [...]

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Jobs Knew: Form over function decision resulted in antenna mess

July 15, 2010

Unfortunately, the obsession with magical industrial design and good looks trumped over engineering and functionality. Another day when form defeated function. Or as some would say, beauty lorded over brains. And the rest is history. With all the brouhaha surrounding the iPhone 4 antenna issue, you can’t be blamed for thinking why the brilliant engineers [...]

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