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The Blackberry cloud... RIM rain!

Earlier this week, one of my clients announced that they were eliminating the Palm Treo 650 from their enterprise lineup, due to frustrating call quality issues, and ultimately, to many missed sales opportunities from those dropped calls.

At first, I wanted to talk them out of it, especially since I felt some loyalty to the platform... ironically, I was one of the two original founders of the Capital Area Palm Users Group (now defunct) in 1998… but I couldn't find a valid reason to so. You see, I had experienced the same disappointment myself, and had migrated away from the platform in the last year, trying Windows Mobile devices to no avail, and now investigating Symbian OS SmartPhones.

Now this post ins't about the Palm per se, but it is about FUD (Fear, Uncertainty, and Doubt.).

As asked, my role as consultant was to find a solution for their needs. They had three scenarios, keep the Palm and live with the problems, get wireless cards for their laptops and additional handsets for voice calls, or find a device that would enable the same capabilities as the Palm, but had a better phone.

With Cingular decided as the provider, I went to work divining the hardware. For the combo solution I recommended purchasing the Motorola RAZR V3 or SLVR L7, both being stable quad band phones (I am aware of the slow address book...), and offering a choice of form factors, working in tandem with the Serra Wireless AirCard 860 PC Modem. For the SmartPhone only solution I recommended any one of the following, the Blackberry 8700c, the Cingular 2125, or the Cingular 8125.

As you can see, I recommended the Blackberry 8700c. Understand that I am not only cognizant, but intimate, with the ongoing litigation between NTP and RIM, as I cover cell phone news for one the most heavily trafficed cell news portals on the net, yet I still made the recommendation, and here is why...

Rosa Parks Passes Away,October 24th, 2005.

I wish to offer my sincere sympathies to the family and friends of civil rights icon Rosa Parks, who died on Monday at age 92. I chose the image at the right because it seemed ironic, yet fitting in dignified respect to her unsought notoriety. Rosa Parks will always be remembered for her refusal to move to the back of the bus to make room for 'whites', on a fateful day, December 1st, 1955. Her arrest, incarceration, and trial catalyzed the black community into solidarity, catapulting Martin Luther King Jr. to the national scene, and resulting in the 381 day Montgomery Bus Boycott that ended when the laws legalizing segregation were lifted.

The actions of Rosa Parks and Martin Luther King Jr., among many others were instrumental for many recognizing the absurdity that is racism.

B. Drew Moynihan
Publisher
BAM 2 Media

Hurricane Katrina

We here at BAM 2 Media are committed to helping those in desperate need in the wake of Hurricane Katrina. Being a small Internet Publishing Company, we have a primary fiscal responsibility to our employees, yet, with the loss of life, homes, and property on a scale never seen in the United States, we wish to pledged 10% of our ad revenues during the period 9/3/2005 -9/17/2005 to the Red Cross.

B. Drew Moynihan
Publisher / Technologist
BAM 2 Media

Hurricane Katrina

I wish to extend our deepest sympathies and prayers to those who have lost everything in the wake of Hurricane Katrina, and the subsequent levy failures in New Orleans. For those of us not in the destruction zone, it is tough to comprehend the scale and scope of this tragedy.

For those looking for loved ones the following links may be helpful:

Craigs List New Orleans - People Lost and Found
hurricanekatrinasurvivors.com
The Sun Herald's "I'm OK Line"
Now Publics Missing Persons

Katrina Blogs:

Metroblogging - New Orleans
Katrina Refugee
Slidell Hurricane Damage Blog
Kaye's Hurricane Katrina Blog
John's Online Journal

And lastly, a great local resource for all the above:

nola.com

B. Drew Moynihan
Publisher / Technologist
BAM 2 Media

Hurricane Katrina - Help!

The victims of Hurricane Katrina need your help today! BAM 2 Media supports the Red Cross with direct links in this post. If you prefer another organization, please donate to them today, so that assistance can get to those who need it quckly.