BlackBerry

Hacks 85–93: Introduction One of the most significant innovations in RIM's short history is the addition of the BlackBerry Browser to the operating system. In combination with the BlackBerry Enterprise Server's Mobile Data Service (MDS), instantly ...

When the Mobile Data Service was first released with BlackBerry Enterprise Server Version 3.5, it had poor support for proxy servers. You couldn't configure it with an auto-proxy, which a lot of companies use to provide Internet access to users. At t...

You may even find some useful site that you want to visit. Do your users use the Mobile Data Service? How frequently? Do your users go to Internet sites or intranet sites more often? Which sites are visited most? All these questions are interesti...

Let's say you've decided to have different versions of the content on your web site for desktop browsers than for the BlackBerry Browser. What is the best way to make these versions available to your users? You could make the different versions avail...

There are many web sites that will look surprisingly good on your BlackBerry without any modification at all. Others may require a tweak or two to make the content available to mobile devices. The good news is that you can make your site look good on...

Once you've decided to take the plunge and create a handheld-only version of your site in the Wireless Markup Language (WML) format, you will quickly realize you've taken for granted the comforts of web development on your desktop computer. First of ...

The BlackBerry Browser along with MDS allows you to push data to devices. As ubiquitous as Java is now, not every programmer is in love with the language. But since the BlackBerry is a J2ME-based device, if you want to create a corporate based appl...

Don't litter—send the unused icon to the bit bucket! We all would like to create useful, elegant software applications that users love and that last forever. Usually it doesn't turn out so rosy. There are bug fixes, new features, and upgrades that ...

Whether you have developed a custom application [Hack #90] in-house or you'd like to make a killer application available to all your users, you can do a silent install for users over the air. This is a great way to install applications on behalf of y...

Wouldn't it be nice if you could get each and every BlackBerry device that is released to put it through the paces? Does the entire web development staff need a BlackBerry solely to see how their work appears on a device? I think your money is more w...