On a post at the official BlackBerry blog, RIM soft announced a new feature for BlackBerry that deals with employee liable versus corporate liable devices. According to the post, RIM is working on building “a platform of coexistence between these two lives on one device.” A corporate BlackBerry user will be able to respond to corporate email but also be able to check fBBM and Facebook.
The blog post doesn’t say explicitly how this will be done, but specifically points to first party RIM apps. The new platform might be a new feature set in upcoming versions of BES or BES Express. However it’s implemented, it’s clear that this is something RIM needs to deal with immediately. Employee liable devices are becoming a larger issue for IT departments to manage, and BlackBerry should pioneer a means of effectively dealing with them without compromising the BlackBerry gold standard for security.
Augustus is the managing director of McMillan Consulting. He has prepared taxes for others and working with small eneties since 1997. 
