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    BlackBerry without BES

    RIM’s little smartphones are some of the most popular devices on the market – but BES is complex and costly. How can you get customers online without the cost of a full BlackBerry server?
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    Managing Skype in business

    Skype means free or cheap calls but it’s based on peer-to-peer file sharing principles. How can you tame consumer VoIP tools for use in a business network?
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Unified Comms for Small Business with Office Communication Server

Office Communication Server isn’t for every small business and it isn’t always straightforward to implement, but when it’s a good fit the rich features offer obvious benefits you can sell.

   
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Small Business Applications for Blackberry

BlackBerry is more than a phone with secure email; it’s also an application platform, with plenty of business-focused applications and tools. Even though App World adds a one-stop shop for trials and downloads you still want to be involved in recommending business BlackBerry apps to your customers, so here are our top picks.

   
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Control versus protection – the role of a firewall

Firewalls have always had a simple purpose; let through specific traffic types, and deny everything else. While this works very well for general network control and security, it can be a positive hindrance for desktop Internet users.

   
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Managing Skype in business

Skype means free or cheap calls but it’s based on peer-to-peer file sharing principles. How can you tame consumer VoIP tools for use in a business network?

   
Telecoms

The latest Windows and Blackberry email handsets for business

Almost any phone does email, and there are dozens of Windows Mobile and BlackBerry models around. But if your clients want the latest high-end handsets, which of them are ready to do business?

   
Telecoms

Smartphone data plans for push email and web browsing

Getting a smartphone connected for push email and Web browsing is as easy as signing up for a data plan with an operator and waiting for the network to provision the service. Finding the right data plan for the business can be harder – but it can be more profitable too.
   
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Setup Mobile email with Lotus Domino

You can deliver email from Lotus Domino Server 8.0 to smartphones in several ways, but if you want push email it’s going to take more work.

There are a variety of ways you can give users access to email and personal information that’s hosted on Lotus Domino Server 8.0 from their mobile phone. What you’ll pick for a given customer depends on the mobile operating system and Internet browser on the specific devices they use.
   
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Setting up mobile email with Exchange 2003 and 2007

ActiveSync. Nokia and other handset manufacturers have licensed ActiveSync but there are still far more handsets that don’t support it.

   
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Setting up Blackberry Enterprise Server BES with Exchange 2007

Getting BlackBerry Enterprise Server up and running needn’t be complex, but it can be tedious: here’s how to get BES working with Exchange 2007 in a Windows network.

   
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Mobile email with Linux email servers

Not every business runs Microsoft Exchange. Maybe the company isn’t based around a Microsoft infrastructure or Exchange is too expensive or they use something else for historical reasons.
   

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