Free PocketMac for Blackberry coming in Feb

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scott boettcher

Kinda off-topic, but relevant to Entourage/Blackberry users...
Reposted from MacDailyNews

³Research In Motion to provide 'PocketMac for BlackBerry' free for Mac users
starting in February


Research In Motion (RIM) and Information Appliance Associates today
announced a licensing agreement whereby RIM will offer 'PocketMac for
BlackBerry' to Mac users, free of charge. PocketMac for BlackBerry is a
desktop application that enables Mac users to synchronize data between their
BlackBerry devices and Macintosh applications including core OS X version
10.4 Tiger applications and Microsoft Entourage.

"The worldwide popularity of Mac OS X is driving the creation of many
exciting new products and significant growth in the Apple development
community," said Ron Okamoto, Apple's Vice President of Worldwide Developer
Relations in the press release. "We're thrilled that IAA and RIM have
collaborated to better support mobile Mac users with easy-to-use BlackBerry
synchronization."

"PocketMac for BlackBerry is easy to install and allows users to synchronize
email, contacts, calendar, tasks and notes with popular Mac applications,"
said Terence Goggin, CTO of Information Appliance Associates in the release.
"We are pleased to work with RIM to provide this robust solution to Apple's
mobile customers."

"This licensing agreement will help expand the reach of BlackBerry to
another important market segment," said Mark Guibert, Vice President,
Corporate Marketing at Research In Motion in the release. "There is
significant interest in BlackBerry from Mac users and we look forward to
delivering PocketMac for BlackBerry to customers around the world."

RIM has licensed the complete version of PocketMac for BlackBerry from IAA
and the companies plan ongoing product development collaboration. PocketMac
for BlackBerry synchronizes the email, contacts, calendar, tasks and notes
of Microsoft Entourage, OS X's Address Book and iCal, Now Contact and Now
Up-to-Date, DayLite, and Stickies, among other applications. This
easy-to-access solution for Macintosh synchronization is expected to be
available as a free download at http://www.blackberry.com beginning in
February.²

Scott
 
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chopcat

Don't forget though that Pocket Mac does not correctly sync addresses
with the Mac if they are over 2 lines, which most UK addresses are.

So if you are using a blackberry and hoping to sync between a mac and
pc you can get yourself into big trouble and mess up all the contacts
 

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