The BlackBerry J2ME OS is by far the most secure OS out right now in terms of e-mail, for the simple fact that it tunnels corporate e-mail through its NOC and that is encrypted with triple DES the entire way. As far as handhelds go, I see about 1000 BlackBerry's a week in the course of work, and I've never seen a BlackBerry virus. Although doing some hardening testing with Windows Phone 7, I can say I am generally very impressed with it as well as the active-sync client.
Online news has recently taken a step towards the emptiness and dishonest practices of big media lately as well. The biggest news archives are still controlled by the same media. Look at the biggest news sites, Yahoo, CNN, MSNBC etc: I mean, look what has happened to YouTube. 4 years ago, it was owned by bloggers and people with original content, and then capitalism hit. Now it is whoever has the best music video, sad really.
This device got my really excited, it has great specs, but it really isn't a enterprise friendly device. It seems that the market right now thrives of having enterprise functionality at the core. ie: BlackBerry, even iphone really wants to get into the enterprise market. As an administrator, what good does this device do for me? I guess if it had a middle ware server like BES or something. It supports imap pop3 etc: But from an admin stand point, there is no way to control the device. Although thinking about it now, no real way to control the iphone either. Maybe it is aimed at the consumer market and not really at an enterprise level?
Maybe they will crash enough Iphones so that people can start to utilize 3g without being bogged down by all those Iphone users, especially in the western part of the country!
In those situations, you are actually buying movies that you could store, or use as collectors editions. I don't think Disney markets that for people to rush home and watch, I believe they want to look at it like a collectors items. And yes, I do think they charge too much for movies that came out 70 years ago as well.
I would say that this is a really big problem, but at the very least this is also very unavoidable. Although I've always liked the idea of being able to pick up games on the fly and not having to go to the store to buy them, when it comes to pricing, x box live already charges outrageous amounts for games that came out 10+ years ago. Should be interesting, it also would depend greatly on how big the downloads are going to be. With bandwidth seemingly limitless now, downloading a 10gig game doesn't seem as big of a deal as it did even 3 years ago. I guess it all depends on how large the games get, I can only see them getting bigger.
It does not even seem noticeably faster from EDGE, and for tethering it is just barely faster then EDGE or 1XEV. All I've found 3G good for is killing my battery.
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The BlackBerry J2ME OS is by far the most secure OS out right now in terms of e-mail, for the simple fact that it tunnels corporate e-mail through its NOC and that is encrypted with triple DES the entire way. As far as handhelds go, I see about 1000 BlackBerry's a week in the course of work, and I've never seen a BlackBerry virus. Although doing some hardening testing with Windows Phone 7, I can say I am generally very impressed with it as well as the active-sync client.
Online news has recently taken a step towards the emptiness and dishonest practices of big media lately as well. The biggest news archives are still controlled by the same media. Look at the biggest news sites, Yahoo, CNN, MSNBC etc: I mean, look what has happened to YouTube. 4 years ago, it was owned by bloggers and people with original content, and then capitalism hit. Now it is whoever has the best music video, sad really.
I think a Chrono Trigger MMO has plenty of potential as well.
This device got my really excited, it has great specs, but it really isn't a enterprise friendly device. It seems that the market right now thrives of having enterprise functionality at the core. ie: BlackBerry, even iphone really wants to get into the enterprise market. As an administrator, what good does this device do for me? I guess if it had a middle ware server like BES or something. It supports imap pop3 etc: But from an admin stand point, there is no way to control the device. Although thinking about it now, no real way to control the iphone either. Maybe it is aimed at the consumer market and not really at an enterprise level?
Maybe they will crash enough Iphones so that people can start to utilize 3g without being bogged down by all those Iphone users, especially in the western part of the country!
In those situations, you are actually buying movies that you could store, or use as collectors editions. I don't think Disney markets that for people to rush home and watch, I believe they want to look at it like a collectors items. And yes, I do think they charge too much for movies that came out 70 years ago as well.
I would say that this is a really big problem, but at the very least this is also very unavoidable. Although I've always liked the idea of being able to pick up games on the fly and not having to go to the store to buy them, when it comes to pricing, x box live already charges outrageous amounts for games that came out 10+ years ago. Should be interesting, it also would depend greatly on how big the downloads are going to be. With bandwidth seemingly limitless now, downloading a 10gig game doesn't seem as big of a deal as it did even 3 years ago. I guess it all depends on how large the games get, I can only see them getting bigger.
It does not even seem noticeably faster from EDGE, and for tethering it is just barely faster then EDGE or 1XEV. All I've found 3G good for is killing my battery.