For years now, venture capitalists, entrepreneurs and executives have been using Blackberries to access their e-mail even when they are out of the office. This has created the means for venture capitalists to respond to e-mails from the ski slopes, executives to respond from the golf course and for investment bankers to respond to one client from another's office. Of course, investment bankers never recreate.
An article in the Wall Street Journal on February 13, 2006, suggests that new technology from Microsoft may make e-mail on the road ubiquitous, no longer the purview of the electronic elite.
This is good news for me, as I've been using a Blackberry for a couple of generations and worry, a bit, about the legal struggles that Research In Motion (RIM), the company that makes the Blackberry, faces having lost a patent lawsuit. There is talk that RIM may have to shut down the network!
Let me tell you a little anecdote about my Blackberry. I may not be able to part with it even when I retire it.
Last summer when I went down on my Harley on the freeway, after the ambulance came to scrape my wife and me off of the road, someone walked up to me and handed me my Blackberry. I frankly expected to find it broken inside and out. After all, I was a mess and my wife was in terrible shape. Not the Blackberry.
Scratched terribly on the back, the screen was unbroken and the device worked perfectly. I called family and friends from the ambulance on my way to the hospital.
To say I'm a fan understates my enthusiasm for the Blackberry. I may adopt a new device someday--soon--but I will never forget my Blackberry.
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