Blackberry, is a great solution for any company needing email on the go, but there are some good alternatives.

The good thing is that there is no need to pay a Blackberry package, only a data package and in lots of countries this comes for free with your subscription.

What is needed.

• Email server compatible with Exchange (Active sync)
  
• The MS Exchange server is an option
• Google Apps is another (The best for me, as it is cheaper, and do not involve MS)
• ActiveSync compatible phones
• iPhone
• Nokia
• Windows mobile phones

I am using Google Apps and Nokia E71 or E72, for me those are much better options than Blackberry solution, you have push email, and lots of other applications at a fraction cost you would have them for blackberry.

Also if you use iphone or Android phones, you may find thousand of applications, once again at a fraction of the cost they are for blackberry, if they exists at all.

How to configure them?

Well, Google has the answers, just look for let's say.

And you will find the answers, so if you are looking for alternatives to blackberry solution for your company, give these options a try.

Two or three days ago Google changed its Layout

I like it, I just hope they do not continouly keep adding more and more blocks to the results page, I like the minimalistic way.

As can be seen, now on the left there are new options, like performing the search on news, videos, shopping and more.
Also now it is easy to perform a search using only results fromthe past 3 days, the latest or anytime.

A lot of other options have been added, and it will be good to start to explore them, and find out what Google has for us.

In the example image there is search for Nexus One