BlackBerry for Work - Productivity for Professionals

The BlackBerry is cool, and the BlackBerry is fun, but the BlackBerry also means serious business. For those of you who bought your BlackBerry to help get your life organized and free yourself from the ball-and-chain of desktop computing, BlackBerry for Work: Productivity for Professionals is the book to show you how. There are plenty of general-purpose BlackBerry guides, but this book shows you how to complete all the traditional smartphone tasks, like to-dos, calendars, and email, and become even more efficient and productive. You'll learn mechanisms for developing effective workflows specific to the features of the BlackBerry and also efficient strategies for dealing with the specialized aspects of business and professional lifestyles.
After giving a professionally targeted introduction to the built-in applications and configuration options, this book details the BlackBerry's enterprise features. This book also delves into App World, the BlackBerry's source for third-party software. It discusses some of the best business and vertical applications, and shows you how to take advantage of this wealth of add-ons and professional functionality.

• The only business-specific guide to the BlackBerry.
• Improve your productivity with innovative mobile workflows that free you from the desktop.
• Make the BlackBerry work for you so you can work better.

The authors of BlackBerry for Work have decided to direct their share of the proceeds from the book to a charity in India. The Mitr Foundation is a trust founded in the city of Hyderabad, with the objective of contributing its might towards the empowerment of the girl child through education. Somewhere between the elite and the underprivileged lies the core essence of our endeavor. Shikha Gupta has pledged to undertake the responsibility of educating three children.

List of contents

Part I: Introduction to your Blackberry. 1: Blackberry Models and Purchasing. 2: Setting up your Blackberry.- Part II: Getting Down To Business. 3: Blackberry as a Phone. 4: Blackberry for Email. 5: Blackberry for Text and Multimedia messaging. 6: Calendaring on your Blackberry. 7: Contact Management on your Blackberry. 8: Web Browsing. 9: Exploring other built in Blackberry Functions.- Part III: Extending your Blackberry. 10: Blackberry as a Modem. 11: Google Apps on your Blackberry. 12: Maps. 13: Blackberry as an iPod. 14: Understanding AppWorld. 15: General Business Apps. - Apps that any business needs right away. - Apps for business travelers. - Financial and expense trackers. - Apps for presentations. - Social networking and messaging apps. - Mind-mapping and brainstorming tools. - Databases and information managers. - File management apps. - Note taking and text editing. - Apps that help you get things done. - Jobs searching apps. - Apps that let you remote connect to and control your computer.- Appendix A: Resources for managing Blackberries management in businesses and enterprises. Appendix B: Resources for developing custom in-house applications.

About the author

Kunal Mittal is a consultant specializing in Java technology, the J2EE platform, Web services, and service-oriented architecture technologies. He has co-authored and contributed to several books on these topics. Kunal is working on a BEA Portal project for Sony Pictures Entertainment.

Summary

The BlackBerry is cool, and the BlackBerry is fun, but the BlackBerry also means serious business. For those of you who bought your BlackBerry to help get your life organized and free yourself from the ball-and-chain of desktop computing, BlackBerry for Work: Productivity for Professionals is the book to show you how. There are plenty of general-purpose BlackBerry guides, but this book shows you how to complete all the traditional smartphone tasks, like to-dos, calendars, and email, and become even more efficient and productive. You’ll learn mechanisms for developing effective workflows specific to the features of the BlackBerry and also efficient strategies for dealing with the specialized aspects of business and professional lifestyles.

After giving a professionally targeted introduction to the built-in applications and configuration options, this book details the BlackBerry’s enterprise features. This book also delves into App World, the BlackBerry’s source for third-party software. It discusses some of the best business and vertical applications, and shows you how to take advantage of this wealth of add-ons and professional functionality.

• The only business-specific guide to the BlackBerry.


• Improve your productivity with innovative mobile workflows that free you from the desktop.


• Make the BlackBerry work for you so you can work better.

The authors of BlackBerry for Work have decided to direct their share of the proceeds from the book to a charity in India. The Mitr Foundation is a trust founded in the city of Hyderabad, with the objective of contributing its might towards the empowerment of the girl child through education. Somewhere between the elite and the underprivileged lies the core essence of our endeavor. Shikha Gupta has pledged to undertake the responsibility of educating three children.

Product details

• Authors: Neeraj Gupta, Shikha Gupta, Kunal Mittal
• Publisher: Springer, Berlin
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 04.02.2013
• EAN: 9781430226260
• ISBN: 978-1-4302-2626-0
• No. of pages: 288
• Dimensions: 191 mm x 15 mm x 235 mm
• Weight: 544 g
• Illustrations: 288 p.
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > IT, data processing > Data communication, networks; B, Mobile Computing, Computer Applications, Computer and Information Systems Applications, Application software, Information technology: general issues, Professional and Applied Computing