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RIM Announces BlackBerry Platform Enhancements

Research In Motion today announced a series of updates for its market-leading BlackBerry platform that include enhanced messaging and collaboration, simpler management, enhanced security and expanded application development support.

Most notable among today's announcement were enhanced messaging and collaboration including the following:

• Document Downloading and Editing – As a result of the integration of the Documents To Go by DataViz software with the BlackBerry platform, users will be able to edit Microsoft Office Word, PowerPoint and Excel files2 directly on their BlackBerry smartphone.
• Remote Search for Messages – Users will be able to search for and retrieve email messages from their email server even if the message is no longer stored on their BlackBerry smartphone.
• Free-Busy Calendar Lookup – Users on the go will be able to check the availability of colleagues before sending a meeting request.
• HTML and Rich Text Email Rendering – BlackBerry smartphone users will be able to view HTML and rich text email messages with original formatting preserved including font colors and styles, embedded images, hyperlinks, tables, bullets and other formatting.
• Advanced Enterprise Instant Messaging and Presence – New features for users running IBM Lotus Sametime® and Microsoft Live Communications Server will include improved address book integration, IM contact “click to call”, IM session “convert to call” and advanced emoticon support, allowing co-workers to collaborate and communicate more effectively using their BlackBerry smartphones.

The announcement also discussed simpler management and support, enhanced security and expanded application development support.

"RIM continues to expand the capabilities of the multifaceted BlackBerry platform to allow an increasingly rich and productive mobile experience for our customers," said Mike Lazaridis, President and Co-CEO at RIM. "The software enhancements demonstrated today will make BlackBerry smartphones more powerful than ever and even easier to manage."

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