Which uses less traffic; the BlackBerry or a Pocket PC configured for push mail?  There was a time where the BlackBerry reigned supreme and no such questions were asked, ever.  However, with the slew of maturing push mail options on the market today, people are now asking.  Indeed, at the heart of more than a […]

To put paid to the endless rounds of Internet and forums posting of what exactly is "push mail", I hereby put forth Gartner’s definition of this sometimes thorny discussion topic.

You might have noticed that the forums have been taken down a few days ago.  Basically, we were taking a long hard long about whether we want to spend the time to properly integrate and maintain a forum at this stage, or to focus and step-up the rate in churning out the write-ups that you […]

Trend Micro has a new version of its mobile security software out.  Rather imaginatively named Trend Micro Mobile Security 3.0, the additional feature of this version versus 2.0 of the same is that it brings to the party a firewall and intrusion detection software.  The previous version on the other hand was antivirus and antispam […]

For those of your fortunate (or unfortunate) enough to be running Direct Push off a company-policed Exchange server; there might be instances in which company policies (or just plain inflexible IT personnel) might select the "auto-lock" option and enforce it as a policy on your device.
Nothing wrong with that - except that the minimum password […]

If you have read the first few articles of my Direct Push Guide, you would probably have noticed that Direct Push is very much tied into Microsoft Exchange.  In fact, Microsoft Exchange itself forms a critical part of the Direct Push architecture – from the earlier AUTD implementation as well as the current iteration available […]

I first came across an article condemning Windows Mobile’s "Security Problems" in its push mail implementation only earlier today.  Because I have been writing about Direct Push over the last 2 weeks, I was naturally intrigued.  Now, whilst I do rather like the current Direct Push implementation, I am no fan-boy either.  I like Direct […]

Ok there you go. The Forums page is now up and running for faster/more in-depth discussion on some of the issues raised.  You can access it here, or simply click on the "Forums" tap at the top of the page.
As you can see, the theme has yet to be integrated properly, but everything else should […]