Cortado streamlines remote document management for BlackBerry Enterprise Server 5.0

With classic PC functions Cortado supplements the new BlackBerry Enterprise Server.

Cortado announces support for the new BlackBerry® Enterprise Server 5.0 from Research In Motion (RIM). BlackBerry Enterprise Server 5.0 now includes file access for documents behind a company's firewall, and with the Cortado solution provides users with extensive file support as well as a wide range of output options such as printing, faxing and PDF rendering.

Cortado, having specialized in remote file management, offers a seamless mobile office for BlackBerry® smartphone users. Advantages include:

Seamless user experience

• Users enjoy the same environment they have on their Microsoft Windows XP® or Vista® machine. A network folder manager automatically maps the correct drive names to the shared files the user is allowed to access according to the active directory
• Possibility to download documents without any size limitation
• Ability to upload documents with the unique 'Save As' function and save e-mails and attachments directly on network drives
• Mobile file manager with classic Windows Explorer functions: Copy & paste, create, delete and rename files and folders stored on network drives or in online storage

Extensive file support

• Support of any document stored on the device and the network, e-mail attachments, tasks, notes, and calendar entries
• Support of HTML e-mails and BlackBerry® Browser pages
• Support of any document formats and a wide range of images
• Open architecture with the flexibility to add new file formats
• Support of document access for BlackBerry smartphones with Device Software 4.0.2 and higher

Mobile output options

• PDF rendering: the first PDF creator for BlackBerry smartphones. Save, print, fax and e-mail PDF files
• Instant Database Reporting: View, e-mail, print or fax database reports from almost any database
• Print to network printer in accordance with the user's rights in the active directory
• Search for printers in the active directory
• Print to Bluetooth-printers
• Present-to-Screen: Present or view documents from a smartphone on a computer screen or projector
• Mobile fax and short fax: Send any document to a fax machine or quickly create faxes using short fax templates

Administrative tools

• Comprehensive tool allows management of the entire network access with just a few mouse clicks in minutes - a particularly comfortable option if there are a great number of BlackBerry smartphone users
• Easy management of network printers

At Wireless Enterprise Symposium 2009, Cortado presents future Cortado Corporate Server features including Enterprise Search, Fault Tolerance and more.

Further information and a free, fully functional demo version are available at www.cortado.com/enterprise.

 

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Cortado's Blackberry Hosting Service has Arrived to Freelance Professionals and SMBs

Starting July 1st, we're giving away 5 FREE HOSTING ACCOUNTS in 5 days via Twitter.

Here's how to win:

To enter the contest, just send out a tweet with the #cortado hashtag included. We will randomly choose one (1) winner per day who will get their very own, Free Blackberry Hosting Account!

We'll be announcing winners on this page and via our Twitter account, BerryFORMS, so subscribe there to see if you've won!

Starting July 1st, 2009, BerryForms will give away one (1) Free Hosting Blackberry Account a day, to one lucky BerryForms fan, for 5 consecutive days.

Our official Cortado Blackberry Hosting Service is available on July 1st -- and we've been working hard to ensure the service is unlike anything you're used to. Stay tuned to our blog and twitter stream for more updates as they develop.

Official rules and details:

• Contest will run from July 1 through July 5.
• You may enter contest as many times as you'd like via Twitter, however, if you are chosen as a prize winner, you are not eligible to win another prize during this giveaway.
• In order to enter, you must send out a tweet from your Twitter account with the #cortado hashtag included (the rest of the tweet text is up to you, but feel free to be creative!). Each tweet sent with #cortado included will be considered an entry into that day's giveaway.
• A winner will be chosen, at random, each day at 5pm EDT and announced via BerryForm's official Twitter account (www.twitter.com/berryforms or @BerryForms ). All tweets sent after 5pm EST, will be considered an entry in the following day's giveaway.
• No purchase is necessary to enter (i.e. you do not need to be an existing BerryForms customer in order to be eligible to win the daily prize).
• Once contacted, winners will be responsible for providing BerryForms with all details to activate the Service.
• Renewal fees are not included

Hanging Up On BlackBerry Looks Smart

It may be time to put down the BlackBerry.

Even after a selloff Friday, shares of the ubiquitous device maker, Research In Motion, are trading at around 18 times projected fiscal 2010 earnings. That is a little rich for a company whose prospects for red-hot growth may be wearing out.

The company's fiscal first-quarter results, released late Thursday, showed just how uncertain the future is. The number of net new BlackBerry accounts was down a little from the fourth quarter. And 80% of the additions came on the consumer side, up from 70% in the fourth quarter. Consumers now account for more than half of BlackBerry customers.

That is a mixed blessing. BlackBerry can't afford to be solely a business device, particularly as the consumer market for smartphones takes off. But whereas corporate users appreciate BlackBerry for the efficiency and security of its email, consumers are more responsive to the latest fashion and to price.

An array of new smartphones hitting the market from Apple, Palm and others, arguably better at Web browsing than the BlackBerry, suggests likely erosion of RIM's U.S. smartphone market share, which IDC estimates was 55% in the first quarter.

Also at issue is how much RIM needs to spend to maintain that market share. Last fiscal year, RIM's capital spending more than doubled to $834 million. When increased spending on intellectual property of $688 million is taken into account, RIM generated no free cash flow. Capex rose again in the first quarter, although free cash flow was positive.

RIM Co-CEO Jim Balsillie says he doesn't "fret" about competition. But at current valuations, investors may want to.

Hanging Up On BlackBerry Looks Smart