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Remote Holiday Roundup: Get Ready – and Stay Home this Holiday Season

To stay ahead of problems this holiday season, here are tools to help you get your job done remotely.

With the holiday season upon us, the last thing IT staff and executives want to worry about over their vacation is whether they’ll have to rush back to the office to fix network problems or solve a users’ technical issue. With your BlackBerry® smartphone and the software solutions in this article, you can have the tools to remotely monitor and manage your network, all without having to get up from the dinner table with your family or cut short your holiday shopping with friends.

Let Your BlackBerry Smartphone Help You Keep New Year's
IT Resolutions

Time management, staying limber, proving to the boss how expensive a meeting is, BlackBerry App World™ has the tools IT professionals need to keep sane in 2010.

It’s almost the start of a new year, and maybe it’s time to think about how you spend your time as a busy IT professional. And since you’re an IT professional, you know that technology can help you handle any problem, right?

Well, maybe not. But if you’re making New Years’ Resolutions about how you deal with your many responsibilities, your BlackBerry smartphone can help. We’ve put together a sampling of apps from BlackBerry App World to help you stay in shape, keep in touch and potentially avoid some boring meetings.

Highlights from the BlackBerry Developer Conference Shed Light on Future Apps and Services

Providing BlackBerry smartphone users with a transformative experience, through applications working in close conjunction with smartphone features, was a central theme at the second annual BlackBerry Developer Conference, held recently in San Francisco.

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LAN Airlines Adopts BlackBerry Connection to SAP for Executives

As one of the largest Latin American airlines, LAN Airlines’ executives travel continuously for external meetings and internal business, but to keep their business flying they also had to stay connected to their staff to approve purchases, authorize commissions or acquire new technology. The airlines had been using SAP® Enterprise Portal 6.0 since 2006 for managing the purchasing of plane parts, oil and gas, approving or denying vacation requests or service commissions among other tasks, but if an executive was out of the office, approvals had to wait.

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BlackBerry Enterprise Server Announcements

Upgrade! BlackBerry® Enterprise Server v5.0.1 is now available to current 5.0 owners, absolutely free. Now supporting French, Italian, German, Spanish and Japanese. Plus, additional platform certifications and enhanced manageability and monitoring

BlackBerry Enterprise Server is now certified for Microsoft® Exchange Server® 2010, and BlackBerry® Technical Support Services for BlackBerry Enterprise Server for Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 is available. Click here for more information »

Highlights from the Personal Edition:

* Traveling During the Holidays? 10 games sure to make travel fun »

* Tips & Tricks: Music »

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BlackBerry® Training Improve efficiency and productivity in your organization with advanced BlackBerry Training courses—for both BlackBerry Enterprise Server administrators and BlackBerry smartphone users.
BlackBerry® Professional Services Optimally deploy wireless technology within your organization with expertise and guidance from a dedicated team of professional services consultants from RIM.
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BlackBerry smartphones pictured on this page: BlackBerry® Bold™ 9700 smartphone, BlackBerry® Storm™ 9500 smartphone, BlackBerry® Curve™ 8530 smartphone. For more information click here »

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The BlackBerry Support Community Forums are a great place for your BlackBerry device users to get help—and a place for you to connect with other IT administrators. Do you have questions about BlackBerry Enterprise Solutions? Are you looking for support on devices or accessories? Visit the BlackBerry Support Community Forums.

Choose the BlackBerry Smartphone that Fits Your Lifestyle

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UK IT Edition December 2009

Remote Holiday Roundup: Get Ready – and Stay Home this Holiday Season

To stay ahead of problems this holiday season, here are tools to help you get your job done remotely.

Let Your BlackBerry Smartphone Help You Keep New Year's
IT Resolutions

Time management, staying limber, proving to the boss how expensive a meeting is, BlackBerry App World™ has the tools IT professionals need to keep sane in 2010.

Highlights from the BlackBerry Developer Conference Shed Light on Future Apps and Services

LAN Airlines Adopts BlackBerry Connection to SAP for Executives

BlackBerry Enterprise Server Announcements

Highlights from the Personal Edition:

Support Links:

Latest BlackBerry Smartphones

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Support Forums

Choose the BlackBerry Smartphone that Fits Your Lifestyle

UK IT Edition December 2009

To stay ahead of problems this holiday season, here are tools to help you get your job done remotely.

Time management, staying limber, proving to the boss how expensive a meeting is, BlackBerry App World™ has the tools IT professionals need to keep sane in 2010.

BlackBerry Enterprise Server Announcements

Highlights from the Personal Edition:

Support Links:

Latest BlackBerry Smartphones

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