NotifyLink updated to support webOS 8

Fri, 16 Oct 2009 2:14 pm EDT

Notify Corp’s NotifyLink over-the-air syncing solution [pdf] has been updated to bring support to the Palm Pre and webOS. Now before you get excited about a new addition to Synergy or something like that, we should note that NotifyLink is built on top of Microsoft Exchange ActiveSync, so Pre users waiting on NotifyLink support have been waiting on Notify for the update. Version 4.6.2 of NotifyLink (both On-Demand and On-Premise varieties) supports synchronization of email, calendar, contacts, and tasks with the Pre, just as you would expect with any EAS system.

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Posted by Baryn on Fri, 16 Oct 2009 2:21 pm EDT

Ugh, Exchange. Give me a cloud-friendly, easily-accessed Google service any day.

I've been able to access my info OTA for years, and you know how much I have spent to be so privileged? Cent zero.

Modern IT is funny. Techology moves so quickly, but the flunkies implementing it are still using manuals from 2001.

Posted by cynomyso on Fri, 16 Oct 2009 3:18 pm EDT

My feelings about Exchange mirror Baryn, but we run Sun Messaging server at our location (k-12 school district of over 40,000) and NotifyLink is the only option that we have to make our calendark/contacts available to portable devices. Sun is slowly rolling out CalDAV but that isn't as baked as Exchange and Pre doesn't support that yet (iPhone just started to). Pre doesn't even allow LDAP lookups, so while I would really really prefer to see support for open standards, I'll take proprietary (and functional) over nothing.

Posted by Tyndall on Fri, 16 Oct 2009 4:34 pm EDT

I want pie.

Posted by jdale on Fri, 16 Oct 2009 5:44 pm EDT

So does this require an exchange server? Does it need to be implemented at the server level rather than simply on the device? Seems unclear to me.

I am struck by the fact that they are syncing tasks, which so far Chapura and MissingLinc have claimed is not supported in WebOS....?

Posted by efudd on Sat, 17 Oct 2009 2:38 pm EDT

anyone use this? the pdf isn't clear- anyone know more about this? Is it basically giving EAS to non-exchange servers?

I'd just GUESS that the task bit is like goodlink (long time Palm OS vendor currently working on their webos version)- with goodlink you can connect to an exchange or lotus server. You can sync you notes with goodlink (unlike EAS) as well as email, contacts, and calendars. But goodlink basically REPLACED the built in equivalents on the device. So for instance you wind up with goodlink contacts and then the device's native contacts- with palm OS they worked with palm to integrate very well and unless you wanted otherwise the goodlink contacts database replaced the internal palm database almost invisibly to the user. They say the goodlink webos version apparently doesn't have to be so extreme becasue synergy allows it to have it's contacts along side others. So MAYBE synergy allows differnt tasks alongside somehow rather than syncing with the built in task list?

(dont have a pre yet- still on the sidelines at the moment...)