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Archive for May, 2009

Blackberry Curve outsells Apple iPhone

Tuesday, May 5th, 2009

RIM’s BlackBerry Curve outsold Apple’s iPhone in the first quarter of this year, according to a US survey conducted by the wireless-market research firm NPD Group.

Whilst the figures are correct, Apple fans will argue there are many reasons for the apparent 2nd place. (more…)

Exchange 2010 (beta) summary

Tuesday, May 5th, 2009

On April 15, 2009, Microsoft released a public beta of the next version of Exchange, Microsoft Exchange Server 2010. Previously known as Exchange 14, 2010 contains some big changes from 2007.

Most of Exchange 2007 appears to haveĀ been rewritten to better support large-scale deployments.

  • Built-in archiving with retention policy and e-discovery support. Many 3rd party vendors who have built a business upon Exchange Archiving solutions have reason to be concerned. Coupled with Microsoft’s own Exchange Archiving Online, these 3rd party solutions appear to be going the way of the dodo…

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