http://www.barse.org hit more fairways. make more putts. avoid the hazards. play by the rules. Wed, 21 Sep 2011 22:19:51 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 http://www.barse.org/cv/comment-page-1/#comment-1161 Rod McQueen - BlackBerry Buzz » Blog Archive » The eureka moment continues Thu, 17 Aug 2006 10:08:55 +0000 #comment-1161 [...] Most BlackBerry lovers are focused on the next model. Not Jack Barse. He still daily uses a 950, launched by Research in Motion in 1997, which in the wireless world is somewhere back in the Pleistocene Age when glaciers disappeared and humans emerged. Recently he lost the battery cover, asked around, and someone found a replacement cover for him buried at the back of a desk drawer. ?I?m not a big fan of trying to type on a ten-key key pad,? says Barse. ?I still think that keyboard layout is the best I?ve ever seen.? Barse knows email like few others. For ten years he worked at MCI Mail and Sprint, joined BellSouth in 1994 to promote email on the Mobitex network and was executive director of the Mobitex Operators Association from 1998 to 2003. You can read his about his current business and golf exploits here. Barse vividly remembers a meeting in Waterloo with Mike Lazaridis after which the RIM co-CEO showed Barse and his BellSouth colleagues Jim Hobbs and Neale Hightower what he was working on. ?I?m getting all of my Outlook messages on my pager,? Lazaridis excitedly announced. ?We were all thinking, ?That?s a pretty big feat of magic because you?re synchronizing mailboxes. The problem with wireless email was: How many email boxes does this person have? Many of us had used RadioMail. I had a RadioMail email box and a couple of others on various and sundry email services so people had to figure out where I was. We called it ?the two mailbox problem.? ?And here was Mike with a solution that at least solved it for one type of internal mail system. It was more than a redirect or an autoforward; that?s fairly simple. The hard part came in synchronizing what was going on in the handheld with what was going on in the server ? marking the message as deleted or read. “The reality was that if he read a message on his handheld, within a couple of minutes, assuming his synchronization server which later became the BlackBerry Enterprise Server, assuming that was running, then the message would be marked as read in Outlook,? said Barse. ?I can see him holding a 950 in one hand and having Outlook running on his monitor. What I remember about that brief glimpse was his enthusiasm coming out for the problem they had solved.? Little wonder Barse still uses the 950. The inventor?s passion remains a part of every message Barse sends today. [...] [...] Most BlackBerry lovers are focused on the next model. Not Jack Barse. He still daily uses a 950, launched by Research in Motion in 1997, which in the wireless world is somewhere back in the Pleistocene Age when glaciers disappeared and humans emerged. Recently he lost the battery cover, asked around, and someone found a replacement cover for him buried at the back of a desk drawer. ?I?m not a big fan of trying to type on a ten-key key pad,? says Barse. ?I still think that keyboard layout is the best I?ve ever seen.? Barse knows email like few others. For ten years he worked at MCI Mail and Sprint, joined BellSouth in 1994 to promote email on the Mobitex network and was executive director of the Mobitex Operators Association from 1998 to 2003. You can read his about his current business and golf exploits here. Barse vividly remembers a meeting in Waterloo with Mike Lazaridis after which the RIM co-CEO showed Barse and his BellSouth colleagues Jim Hobbs and Neale Hightower what he was working on. ?I?m getting all of my Outlook messages on my pager,? Lazaridis excitedly announced. ?We were all thinking, ?That?s a pretty big feat of magic because you?re synchronizing mailboxes. The problem with wireless email was: How many email boxes does this person have? Many of us had used RadioMail. I had a RadioMail email box and a couple of others on various and sundry email services so people had to figure out where I was. We called it ?the two mailbox problem.? ?And here was Mike with a solution that at least solved it for one type of internal mail system. It was more than a redirect or an autoforward; that?s fairly simple. The hard part came in synchronizing what was going on in the handheld with what was going on in the server ? marking the message as deleted or read. “The reality was that if he read a message on his handheld, within a couple of minutes, assuming his synchronization server which later became the BlackBerry Enterprise Server, assuming that was running, then the message would be marked as read in Outlook,? said Barse. ?I can see him holding a 950 in one hand and having Outlook running on his monitor. What I remember about that brief glimpse was his enthusiasm coming out for the problem they had solved.? Little wonder Barse still uses the 950. The inventor?s passion remains a part of every message Barse sends today. [...]

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