BlackBerry Protect: Total Protection of Your BlackBerry Handheld

As of March 19 Research In Motion will make available to all users who use the RIM BlackBerry handheld with the BIS service - private and professional - a free tool called BlackBerry Protect, initially known as BlackBerry Shield, which allows you to backup , restore and wipe of sensitive data via wireless will therefore use the mobile network.

BlackBerry Protect is a free application that can protect information in case of loss of the BlackBerry smartphone. After downloading the BlackBerry Protect can log on to the Web site to block, detect and delete data from your device wherever you are. You can also choose to back up important data wirelessly and automatically between daily, weekly or monthly.

Once you have downloaded the BlackBerry Protect can make an easy and fast configuration using our BlackBerry ID credentials that we normally use to access appworld RIM:

When configuring the BlackBerry Protect can decide what data to backup and automatic frequency between daily, weekly or monthly. Without this we can proceed to backup and restore wirelessly accessing the application itself:

Backup wirelessly to your contacts, calendar, memo, tasks, browser bookmarks and text messages;

Automatic backup on a daily, weekly or monthly;

Restore mode wireless data that was backed up when you switch to a new BlackBerry;

Backup only the information that have changed since the last backup (incremental backups);

Backup only via Wi-Fi;

Backup not allowed to roam

When the backup is a notification appears on the desktop of our RIM BlackBerry handheld to access messages and we can see confirmation of the backup was successful. It works very well but in any case we must wait for the March 19 official release in Italy. In fact we can now make up but we can not access the website www.blackberry.com / protect where you can find our backup, geolocalize our device, making it sound like a siren to locate where we lost a home or office or make wipe up all your data if it had been stolen.

Important notes:

BlackBerry Protect is free to all users who use data plans supported by the BlackBerry BIS service.

BlackBerry Protect is not compatible with devices that use the BlackBerry Enterprise Server or BlackBerry Enterprise Server Express.