In case you have been hiding under a rock for 3 days, Hillary Clinton is involved in an email scandal. The presidential hopeful and former Secretary of State used a personal, privately managed email server for State Department business while she was Secretary of State. The decision to only use private email for government business has raised questions by her political adversaries, and put the spotlight on her device of choice -- her BlackBerry.
Mrs. Clinton held a press conference at the UN yesterday, and the whole world was watching. She talked about carrying "one device," and that device was a BlackBerry. What better press could BlackBerry ask for? The most important business in the world was not being carried out on an iPhone or Android phone, but a BlackBerry.
Mrs. Clinton said she used her private server exclusively because she wanted to carry one device. That device was a BlackBerry. Her opponents charge it would have been easy to add another email account on her BlackBerry. Is that true? Her supports say no but her adversaries say yes.
Back in 2009 it was not as easy to have multiple email accounts on one device. Even the iPhone did not have a unified inbox. There were certainly workarounds to get another account on the BlackBerry (perhaps webmail), but it wasn't as seamless as it is today.
BlackBerry introduced BlackBerry Balance in 2013. Balance allowed users to separate personal account and contacts from business data that was managed by their company's IT person.
It doesn't matter what side of this "scandal" you are on. BlackBerry is in the middle of it and I'm sure a lot of people will be let in on the dirty little secret that people still use BlackBerry because it has the best keyboard in the business, and it is very secure.
Mrs. Clinton held a press conference at the UN yesterday, and the whole world was watching. She talked about carrying "one device," and that device was a BlackBerry. What better press could BlackBerry ask for? The most important business in the world was not being carried out on an iPhone or Android phone, but a BlackBerry.
Mrs. Clinton said she used her private server exclusively because she wanted to carry one device. That device was a BlackBerry. Her opponents charge it would have been easy to add another email account on her BlackBerry. Is that true? Her supports say no but her adversaries say yes.
Back in 2009 it was not as easy to have multiple email accounts on one device. Even the iPhone did not have a unified inbox. There were certainly workarounds to get another account on the BlackBerry (perhaps webmail), but it wasn't as seamless as it is today.
BlackBerry introduced BlackBerry Balance in 2013. Balance allowed users to separate personal account and contacts from business data that was managed by their company's IT person.
It doesn't matter what side of this "scandal" you are on. BlackBerry is in the middle of it and I'm sure a lot of people will be let in on the dirty little secret that people still use BlackBerry because it has the best keyboard in the business, and it is very secure.