Lenovo Service Boosts BlackBerry, ThinkPad Integration

Research In Motion (RIM) and Lenovo on Monday announced a new service for mobile professionals, called Lenovo Constant Connect, that lets ThinkPad laptop computer users with BlackBerry smartphones employ a brand new, Bluetooth-enabled ExpressCard along with their ThinkPads to synchronize corporate e-mail between notebooks and smartphones--even if their computers are turned off.

For example, Lenovo Constant Connect users can fire up their ThinkPad laptops during a flight, read and respond to corporate mail saved within their mail clients on their machines, store those responses and power down their computers for landing. With the Constant Connect Express Card in place, the messages composed while in flight will be automatically synced over to their BlackBerrys and sent just as soon as users turn on their handhelds and establish wireless network connections.

The idea is to make it simpler and more effective for road warriors to manage corporate e-mail while on the go. Lenovo Constant Connect for BlackBerry is also meant to reduce the need to pay for expensive airport or hotel Wi-Fi, since it enables users to receive, compose and send corporate mail via laptop using only your BlackBerry's wireless connection.

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