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Alexander Turcic · 02-20-2006, 05:02 PM

Folks, don't get me wrong: I'm not a BlackBerry hater. I am just fed up with these companies and their lawsuits, with one party always suing the other. Fact is, the BlackBerry has been an innovative device that is now likely to be replaced by a competiting product, should the endless feud between RIM and NTP not end soon. SearchMobileComputing has a quick write up of how senior executives are already planning for the switch, and quite successfully so.

At the American Indian-owned Viejas Casino in Alpine, Calif., BlackBerrys are an essential part of doing business in an around-the-clock environment, said CIO Moti Vyas. About 130 BlackBerrys are in use. The casino has been testing Microsoft solutions since November 2005, about the time it first heard about BlackBerry's patent battle, Vyas said. "First we upgraded our e-mail system to accept [Microsoft's Exchange Server] 2003, and then we bought two devices in December, Treo 650 and Treo 700. We are testing Treo 700, as we speak, and it is working. That device can send and receive e-mails, of course, and it is best on Windows Mobile operating system," Vyas said.

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02-20-2006, 05:02 PM	#1
Alexander Turcic Fully Converged Posts: 18,175 Karma: 14021202 Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: Switzerland Device: Too many to count here.	There's a time after BlackBerry Folks, don't get me wrong: I'm not a BlackBerry hater. I am just fed up with these companies and their lawsuits, with one party always suing the other. Fact is, the BlackBerry has been an innovative device that is now likely to be replaced by a competiting product, should the endless feud between RIM and NTP not end soon. SearchMobileComputing has a quick write up of how senior executives are already planning for the switch, and quite successfully so. At the American Indian-owned Viejas Casino in Alpine, Calif., BlackBerrys are an essential part of doing business in an around-the-clock environment, said CIO Moti Vyas. About 130 BlackBerrys are in use. The casino has been testing Microsoft solutions since November 2005, about the time it first heard about BlackBerry's patent battle, Vyas said. "First we upgraded our e-mail system to accept [Microsoft's Exchange Server] 2003, and then we bought two devices in December, Treo 650 and Treo 700. We are testing Treo 700, as we speak, and it is working. That device can send and receive e-mails, of course, and it is best on Windows Mobile operating system," Vyas said. [via Palm Addict]