The worst thing to spill into a computer/keyboard/whatever is vomit. Take whatever substance the user is enjoying... masticate it into tiny bits/pulp, add digestive juices... then dump it back onto the machine. Not only is it wet and bad for the machine... it's a hard time getting a geek willing to do the repair.
I had a machine come in from the athletic department, when I worked in the Uni. repair shop, that I did manage to clean & fix (successfully). I gave up on the keyboard, but got the main box cleaned out (eventually wound up soaking the logic board in a bucket of water [sans battery, etc.]).
Check the following for information about, at least a potential, response from RIM: http://mytreo.net/news/archives/000159.php#more
Essentially, it looks like Sprint, Palm, and RIM have plans to allow RIM to run on a Sprint/PalmOS device.
I've appreciated the tactic "tell it to me here, or it won't get done." I think that as as our own implementation of a ticketing/request system (Parature - http://www.parature.com/) gets a bit more established on campus, we may move to this sort of strategy. So far, we've only been using the system since the beginning of June.
Until June, we've used Remedy... but found it to be inadequate with respect to building an integrated Knowledge Base.
Parature is a pretty cool system, and does out of the box authentication from Blackboard's software. Not so important for you corporates, but one less thing to worry about for a lot of Universities & K-12.
Important to note that Blackboard's teaching/learning environment is a very different issue from the commerce & access products. Commerce & access (the piece discussed in the article) was purchased a couple of years ago & still is dealing with legacy crap in the code. Not that it's an excuse for siccing your lawyers on security folks... but absolutely no reason for a blatant ad that has nothing to do with the commerce & access side of Blackboard.
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The worst thing to spill into a computer/keyboard/whatever is vomit. Take whatever substance the user is enjoying... masticate it into tiny bits/pulp, add digestive juices... then dump it back onto the machine. Not only is it wet and bad for the machine... it's a hard time getting a geek willing to do the repair.
I had a machine come in from the athletic department, when I worked in the Uni. repair shop, that I did manage to clean & fix (successfully). I gave up on the keyboard, but got the main box cleaned out (eventually wound up soaking the logic board in a bucket of water [sans battery, etc.]).
Check the following for information about, at least a potential, response from RIM: http://mytreo.net/news/archives/000159.php#more Essentially, it looks like Sprint, Palm, and RIM have plans to allow RIM to run on a Sprint/PalmOS device.
I've appreciated the tactic "tell it to me here, or it won't get done." I think that as as our own implementation of a ticketing/request system (Parature - http://www.parature.com/) gets a bit more established on campus, we may move to this sort of strategy. So far, we've only been using the system since the beginning of June. Until June, we've used Remedy... but found it to be inadequate with respect to building an integrated Knowledge Base. Parature is a pretty cool system, and does out of the box authentication from Blackboard's software. Not so important for you corporates, but one less thing to worry about for a lot of Universities & K-12.
Important to note that Blackboard's teaching/learning environment is a very different issue from the commerce & access products. Commerce & access (the piece discussed in the article) was purchased a couple of years ago & still is dealing with legacy crap in the code. Not that it's an excuse for siccing your lawyers on security folks... but absolutely no reason for a blatant ad that has nothing to do with the commerce & access side of Blackboard.