Wireless Email & Mobile
Wireless email (or mobile email) is the transmission of email messages from
one user to another via a wireless network. When most people refer to
wireless email, they are talking about the use of email on a wireless or
mobile device, such as a BlackBerry, wireless PDA, or smart phone.
Wireless email (or mobile email) can be accessed in a few ways. In the
enterprise, businesses can either use a server-based service, such as
Research in Motion's BlackBerry Enterprise Server, or set up a wireless
add-on to their existing email server, like Microsoft Exchange. For smaller
businesses, users can access wireless email through a Web-based system or a
POP server.
A wireless email system usually consists of three factors: an email server,
a middleware client that connects the email server to users, and the
end-user device. Some wireless email solutions rely on an additional server
level hosted by the vendor, but most new systems allow the business using
the wireless email system to control their email system as a part of their
larger IT infrastructure.
Research in Motion's BlackBerry line of mobile email devices is the
industry's best-selling wireless email device and network solution. There
are a number of other wireless email solutions from companies such as SEVEN,
Visto, and Good Technology that use existing handhelds, PDAs, and cell
phones for access.
Wireless email is one part of mobile enterprise, which is the move to put enterprise
IT applications on mobile devices.
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