Month: February 2013

How to enable Emergency Alert for Enterprise E-mail

Posted on February 23, 2013by in Emergency Alert, News

If you have downloaded the app and are wondering why the alerts don’t go off for your BES/BlackBerry Balance work e-mail account you have set up, then this post may be of interest to you – it will outline the reasons why this happens, as well as how to install public apps into the work perimeter on BlackBerry 10 (with the help of your system admins). Cause The main challenge is that with BlackBerry 10, the security model has designed on the basis of a split persona. The device is split down the middle – one side is for work,…

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Emergency Alert for BB10

Posted on February 22, 2013by in Emergency Alert, News

Now that BlackBerry 10 is available (in some countries, at least), I have just made the Emergency Alert application available on the platform. The app is a more basic version of the old BlackBerry Java app – this one simply alerts you based on e-mail subject (containing/starting with) or from SMTP address. The best thing about the app is that you can be alerted to urgent events, even if your BB10 device is set to silent, or bedside mode. More features will be added in the future to bring it up to the standard of the old Java version. Oh,…

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