RIM Opens BlackBerry Business Cloud Services Public Beta for Microsoft Office 365

We have been hearing about RIM’s collaboration with Microsoft for a RIM hosted cloud BES since BlackBerry World. That product is finally starting to come together in the form of BlackBerry Business Cloud Services for Microsoft Office 365. It is a RIM hosted BlackBerry Management Service for Microsoft Office 365 hosted Exchange. RIM is saying that a number of Fortune 500 customers and several government agencies have been testing the system out for a bit now and it is now ready for public beta. The best part is that BlackBerry Business Cloud Services is available for no extra charge to Microsoft Office 365 Midsized Businesses and Enterprise Plan subscribers and works on both BES and BIS BlackBerry data plans.

You can sign up for the beta at blackberry.com/beta/businesscloud or read more about it at www.blackberry.com/cloudservices and below:

Single login

Powerful and familiar administration

Wireless activation

Support for personal devices

Instant messaging

Data protection

Web-based self-service

User features

For more information, including system requirements, please view the Feature and Technical Overview.

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Rumor: BlackBerry AppWorld 3.0 Coming August 22nd

World on the web has gotten around this morning that BlackBerry AppWorld 3.0 will be released on Monday August 22nd.   I have been beta testing it for a few weeks now, and it is the upgrade that AppWorld has needed.  The program in beta is still not perfect, but a nice upgrade from 2.0. Hopefully RIM has a build that had not been released to the Betazone, with some of the issues fixed.

Here is the email with details:

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