Roaming Fees May Apply...

an interesting story here about the size of blackberry's penetration. while a lot of us rely on more sophisticated smart phones and data devices, coporate america prefers the ease of use of the blackberry software. RIM's plan for a new software release by the end of this year will include over the air synchornization of all exchange elements (contacts, calendar, mail, etc) and over the air software management which will allow for remote provisioning in case a user goes down in the field.

as noted in my post from 08.06.04, the future of RIM could be in the licensing of their blackberry client software as the number of licensees of "blackberry built in" continues to grow. motorola, siemens, nokia, and sonyericsson all plan "blackberrry built-in" service by early 2005 in their next generation phones and smartphones.

interesting times for RIM, but what does goodlink have in store? the goodlink server product already allows for ota synchronization of all exchange elements and its server management and provisioning tools allow for a full view of user status and range. immediate plans are future software releases for pocket pc devices, but hopefully, an aggressive licensing plan will soon follow...