I have specific needs for my cell phones that convinced me I want a smart phone: Back in the days, I talked to a representative of Blackberry France that told me their main goal is to focus in the business to customer market, also because the professional market is close to saturation and don't allow a lot of room to expand. I think constructors have made a lot of effort to make their phones more affordable, and thus attack the customer market. Also, I think that $50 for such powerful tools is not really expensive. ![]() Anyway, how will you use them if you don't have a plan? I did not study the plans, at least in the US, because I am coming back to France, but I believe they are sort of the same. This will be way less expensive (around $50 versus 400 by themselves). Hopefully It will help.įirst, I think that you should consider getting one of these toys with a phone plan. I am sure that some of you probably owns a smartphone or are considering buying one in a near future, so I decided to share with you my research and my opinion. View the entire comment thread.Lately I have conducted some research about the different option in the market concerning smart phones. Once the feature becomes available, I'm sure many organizations will allow, and even encourage, the use of the RSS channel as an alternative to automated emails, and of course develop the required server modules. In order to get the whole thing working, mobile reader software developers must first implement the required client functionality. The client reader software on my phone will automatically decrypt the feeds upon arrival. The organization server will deliver a public key to my Blackberry and encrypt all RSS feeds with the corresponding private key before delivery. I think the best way to implement feed encryption is to use RSA public key cryptography. This solution has been suggested many times, but I don't see the feature getting implemented in any of the feed readers I tried in my blackberry. Of course we can trust those companies, but be sure our boss won't do it.įeed encryption is the way to go, for both the title and the description fields of the feed. The main reason they stand in the middle is to provide a better service, because the device has only one server to poll which will deliver the feeds in a compressed format. In order to do that, they require us to send them the password, which will be stored and used by their servers. Most feed reader clients, specially those available in mobile phones, will retrieve the feeds from a third party company, which in turn does the polling of the feeds from the feed servers. Password protected feeds are of no use either. The URL can be guessed, but even in case it's impossible to guess, most users access their feeds via feed aggregators, making both the URL and the feed content available to third party companies. ![]() Using custom feed URLs for each user will not keep the feeds private. The feeds have to be readable only for the user they are addressed to. I understand issues of certain classes my require immediate attention and will still need to be notified in particular, but for all others it would be nice to receive a single mail every day with a summary of our pending notifications, which we can read using our feed reader of choice.īut the key problem here is privacy. What if we could read all those notifications whenever we want to, using our favorite RSS reader? ![]() ![]() They send us tons of mails everyday in an attempt to keep us informed of every management aspect of the organization, including posts in the intranet forums, task assignments and deadlines, status of indicators, addition or changes in important records, etc. Many intranet applications, used at the organization level to manage internal information, are no more no less than huge spammers. First of all I want to state I'm not an expert in the field of cryptography, so I apologize in advance if this article is flawed either by misconceptions or technical details.
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