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.

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 […]

I thought long and hard not about the contents of this article, but about the title. While sure to generate some controversy, this is what I believe to be the case. My personal opinion is that the current implementation of Direct Push overall is better than RIM’s BlackBerry device where it comes to […]

From the earlier section "When nudge comes to shove: How push is Direct Push", we talked about three methods of retrieving Email available to Windows Mobile 5.0 devices onwards – by polling, Direct Push, or manually. All three methods of retrieving your Email ride on top of your standard mobile technologies such as GPRS, […]

It might not be immediately obvious to the beginner; but there are actually three primary ways for retrieving your Email on a Windows Mobile 5.0 MSFP device. Depending on your data plan, preference and requirements, this flexibility is actually pretty useful.