On the BlackBerry section of Experts-Exchange, one of the most-read thread these days is "BlackBerry Enterprise Server-Email Not Synching Properly In Inbox." Link below.

Started by NTJOCK, the thread involves two issues. One, that synchro happens too quickly, causing spam to replicate to the BlackBerry which requires a "synch now" to clear it.

The second issue is way more complicated, I promise you that.

"I have many rules running on my mailbox at the client and server level," NTJOCK writes. "They process a variety of email that we get from vendors and systems. I probably get 200 emails a day and only 40 of them require me to read them. The other 160 are some combination of status updates for orders, confirmations, faxes, system messages, etc. I have rules setup to move these to the right folders, forward them when appropriate, or just flat delete them."

Would this be so easy.

"The problem is that they get replicated out to my blackberry before the rule on the client 'gets'them," NTJOCK explains. "They do get moved to the right folder (usually), but after they are moved they "stay" on the BB. This is really frustrating because I have 160 msgs/day of clutter on my PDA."

Ace Experts-Exchange expert garycutri to the rescue.

"If an email is moved from the inbox to a public folder the BE will not be able to track that email hence (hey Gary is from Australia where they say "hence") the changes aren't applied to the device," he writes. "As another example if you delete an email and empty the recycle bin before the device has a change to reconcile the BES will loose track of that email and it won't be removed from the device.

"With all the spam filter I use on Exchange they prevent the spam email from hitting the exchange server so there is never an issue with the device receiving filter spam," Gary points out. "You can add a blacklist to exchange so you ensure the spam never reaches the server. I normally use the free list from www.spamhaus.org."

Then Gary adds this important piece of advice: "When you set rules to automatically move email ensure that the folder you are moving them too is a sub folder of the inbox otherwise the BES can't track the email and hence can't reconcile the changes to the handheld."

Linked below, a new BlackBerry Knowledge Base Document offers instructions for working within the BlackBerry Java Development Environment to create an Event within the BlackBerry Calendar application.

This is possible because BlackBerry JDE 4.0 offers the personal digital assistance profile (PDAP) package to provide allow access to the Calendar, Tasks, and Address Book applications on the BlackBerry device.

Included within the net.rim.blackberry.api.pdap package is the BlackBerryEvent interface, This interface defines extended fields in the event, along with the standard fields obtained through the javax.microediition.pim.Event interface.

Want sample code? Turn the page (just thought of that old Bob Seger song as I typed that).

Well anyway:

EventList _eventList = null;
try {
// Creates/Opens an instance of the specified PIM list (Event List) in Read/Write mode.
_eventList = (EventList)PIM.getInstance().openPIMList(PIM.EVENT_LIST, PIM.READ_WRITE);

// Creates a new Event
BlackBerryEvent bbEvent = (BlackBerryEvent)_eventList.createEvent();



// Checks the Event List to determine if the ALLDAY field is supported
if(_eventList.isSupportedField(BlackBerryEvent.ALLDAY)) {
// Checks the event to determine if ALLDAY attribute as already be set
if(bbEvent.countValues(BlackBerryEvent.ALLDAY) > 0) {
bbEvent.setBoolean(BlackBerryEvent.ALLDAY,0,Event.ATTR_NONE,true);
} else {
bbEvent.addBoolean(BlackBerryEvent.ALLDAY,Event.ATTR_NONE,true);
}
}
} catch(PIMException e) {
// Handle Exception

K, got that?

The International Digital Publishing Forum (IDPF), the standards and trade association for digital publishing, has just announced a new technical standard for packaging a digital publication, including the contents of the publication, metadata, signatures, encryption, rights and other information into one standard file.

Entitled the Open eBook Publication Structure Container Format (OCF), the new IDPF standard is intended to streamline will allow publishers to release a single standard file into their sales and distribution channels and will also enable publishing for mobile devices.

The most BlackBerry-centric vendor solution to be announced fir OCF is the existing Mobipocket, which is owned by Amazon.com.

Mobipocket Reader / Mobipocket Creator will be the OCF-empowered platform. It claims an Implementation time frame in the first quarter of next year. It is compliant for BlackBerry as well as Windows Mobile, Symbian smartphones, and Palm OS devices, as well as Windows desktops and notebook PCs. as well as desktops and laptops (MS Windows). Product URL:

BlackBerry-maker Research In Motion has announced BlackBerry Enterprise Server for MDS Applications is now available.

The platform is intended to give enterprise users access to solutions for extending mobile applications to users without the need for doing this via email.

"Many of our customers want a solution that can decouple wireless email from other wireless applications, while providing the same level of security and control that they trust and rely upon in BlackBerry," RIM co-CEO Mike Lazaridis noted in a statement released this morning. "BlackBerry Enterprise Server for MDS Applications benefits our enterprise customers as well as the growing community of developers, software vendors, systems integrators and value added resellers that are creating a rich ecosystem of business applications for BlackBerry."

• Andrew Zimmer from Naggie

Thought of headlining this post, "new Torrent released for BlackBerry."

But that would be an attempt to trick you into thinking I was talking about those file-swappin' torrents.

Wouldn't do that to you. But there is a Torrent involved here- Release 2.0 of the Torrent 5100 GGSN (Gateway GPRS Support Node) Test System.

Won't leave you in the soup. GPRS=General Packet Radio Service.

From Mobile Metrics, this systemm which came out last month- simulates BlackBerry usage traffic patterns over a metwork, and then spits out results.

The results are displayed in a Histogram format.

Hey, come along. Even if you could give a whit (such a gentleman) about GGSN these pix are kinda cool in an abstract art sort of way.

As in:

Or detailed, time-based, Badwidth analysis breakouts, such as:

Overgrown soccer net..kinda, no?