AT&T Connects Business Customers With New Wi-Fi-Enabled BlackBerry Pearl 8120

New Handset Provides Simultaneous Voice and Wi-Fi Data Coverage Across Industry's Leading Domestic and International Footprint

AT&T and Research In Motion have announced the availability of the BlackBerry Pearl 8120 for business customers, a global handset with built-in Wi-Fi that combines business-grade communications and multimedia functionality in a small and stylish design.

"The BlackBerry Pearl 8120 from AT&T delivers the full power of the BlackBerry platform in a sleek and stylish handset that is ideal for both business and personal use," said Mark Guibert, vice president, Corporate Marketing at Research In Motion. "With a range of hardware and software enhancements, including built-in Wi-Fi, the BlackBerry Pearl 8120 is an ideal choice for customers who want a new phone with powerful communications and multimedia features in an incredibly small candy bar design."

Hostopia email service available for BlackBerry

BlackBerry customers can now utilize Hostopia's wholesale managed email service
FT. LAUDERDALE, FL, March 6

Hostopia.com, Inc., today announced that its Hostopia email service now offers integrated support for BlackBerry Internet Service from Research InMotion, Hostopia's wholesale, managed email platform provides email services to leading global service providers of telecommunications and Internet services, who, in turn, offer email services to millions of businesses and consumers worldwide. The Hostopia email service now allows BlackBerry smartphone users to automatically receive messages from their Hostopia email account. To instantly configure and connect with their Hostopia email account users can simply enter their email credentials into their BlackBerry smartphone. Hostopia's Chief Marketing Officer, Paul D. Engels, comments, "This new relationship with RIM will allow us to offer the benefits of the BlackBerry Internet Service push email architecture to broadband service providers. This will enable their end users to instantly activate high-performance, mobile email simply by entering their personal email credentials into their BlackBerry smartphone. BlackBerry Internet Service is a natural complement to Hostopia's email platform, which now includes webmail and SyncSuite, our mobile data synchronization clients, for the BlackBerry platform, Outlook and others. The Hostopia client lets email users wirelessly update contact and other personal data between their desktop PC and a BlackBerry smartphone." Over two million email users on Hostopia's system will be able to utilize BlackBerry Internet Service. Hostopia will market the service on a wholesale basis, selling to telecommunications companies, cable providers and other broadband ISPs who require email for their end-user customers. Customers who also take advantage of Hostopia's SyncSuite applications can wirelessly synchronize their calendars, contacts and task information so that changes made on a BlackBerry smartphone can be automatically synchronized, over-the-air with Outlook and Webmail. "Whether for business or personal use, wireless email is a powerful service that offers customers a multitude of benefits, including enhanced communications, productivity and flexibility," said Mark Guibert, Vice President, Corporate Marketing at Research In Motion. "We are pleased to be working with Hostopia to enrich the email experience for our mutual
customers."