Vodacom has just launched BIS 2.5 ahead of many other carriers who are scheduled for the next week or two. Sorry guys if you don’t have it enabled already but when you do let us know!
As you must have heard from several reviews and posts,  BIS 2.5 brings HTML Emails, Native Attachment File Downloading and [...]

Raffy just sent me this message and it was confirmed by the same from Joe at www.dataoutages.com. It seems like the upcoming BIS 2.5 with HTML email and all will be going down next weekend. From what I can tell the activation will happen the next day.
From RIM’s announcement:
Maintenance Summary: BlackBerry Internet Service v2.4 upgrade [...]

If you are like me you will probably enjoy using IMAP for Gmail integration on your BlackBerry. I found that it has better syncronization of deleted and archived messages.
The problem is that the second you put in your email address and password into the BlackBerry Internet Service (BIS) form it automatically chooses to use POP3 [...]

Josep sent me a link to a very interesting article on ISP-planet. It details a update to MailSite which is an Exchange replacement. The new update brings calendar and contacts sync to their Exchange replacement called MailSite Collaborator.
The software is actually a reverse engineered ActiveSync client for BlackBerry. Its a pretty interesting idea and makes [...]

As a BES administrator we have all seen this issue time and time again with BlackBerry Enterprise Customers but I feel this needs to be covered again with what I have found on www.blackberry.com. Granted I am unsure of the actual publish date of this particular page, it only came to my attention recently due [...]

At last ! Let’ hope this type of solution spreads for here. A Pre-Paid BlackBerry data package would open the device up to even more users. No more stuffing around trying to get your BlackBerry enabled for global roaming when you go overseas. (Not to mention any nasty surprise data roaming bills when you get [...]

All of you BIS users rejoice. BIS 2.5 is almost upon us and RIM has released the full feature list for the latest update. Many of these features requires OS 4.5 along with BIS 2.5 so don’t get your hopes up so fast… Thanks Josep for the tip!
In a nutshell:

Attachment downloading in the native file [...]

Josep just sent me a link to a piece of software that I had never heard of before. Notify is a enterprise mobility company that touts sync capabilities with just about every smartphone and practically EVERY mail/PIM server I can think of. Just to give you an idea it supports Communigate, Exchange, FirstClass, GroupWise, Kerio, [...]

Now I can’t say why RIM tried charging for S/MIME in the first place. (Greedy?) I just got an email from one of our readers, Nick, that RIM has stopped charging for S/MIME support for BlackBerry. This should have been something RIM should offered originally as part of BES and has now learned its lesson. [...]

JSanders at BBforums got the scoop on a scheduled outage early Sunday morning. I know I wont be awake at 2AM EDT but for west coast users this will be about 11PM on Saturday night. So if your on call that night its worth to know.
From BBforums:

Medium-S3 Severity Maintenance (New) for BlackBerry Relay service for [...]