Archive for July, 2009
WARNING: iPhone 3GS Encryption Places Enterprise Data At Risk
Jonathan Zdziarski, in a Wired Magazine interview, demonstrates how the iPhone 3GS (the first iPhone with encryption) can be attacked and cracked with simple tools, all but erasing enterprise-level security progress that Apple has celebrated with the new “enterprise friendly” iPhone 3GS launch.
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iPhoneCTO’s Top 5 iPhone OS 3.0 Enterprise Features
While Apple may not have initially marketed to corporations or even cared much about enterprise adoption, iPhone 3.0 brings significant features that allow the enterprise to welcome it as a true corporate platform.
Full StoryiPhoneCTO Exclusive Oracle Interview; How Does an 80,000 Person Organization Use iPhones?
“The World’s Largest Business Software Company” was the first company to introduce enterprise applications when the App Store launched. A year later, Oracle continues to demonstrate their support of customers’ efforts integrating iPhones into enterprise systems.
Full Story4 Steps To An iPhone Supercharged Online Marketing Strategy
If you’re thinking about embracing the iPhone in your business, you’re probably thinking about how your employees will use it. That’s fine, but your corporate iPhone strategy should also factor in use cases outside your company, especially in the area of online marketing, customer service, and content and brand visibility.
Full StoryThere’s An iPhone Business App Store Coming; Bet On It
No CTO is going to wade through 200 dumb-ass note-pad apps to find a secure enterprise-scale business intelligence distribution and management platform for iPhone. Get a clue people – Apple will not try to sell enterprise-grade communications products along side “Shake This Baby” for the same reason they don’t sell Lambo’s on the same lot with Ford Fiesta’s.
Full StoryVisiStat’s iPhone Web App Supercharges Business Analytics
I don’t enjoy criticizing companies that have many bigger things on their plate besides iPhone support, but the nature of their business and the innovative and visual features of their service, are under-leveraged by homogenizing the mobile interface across multiple platforms with an LCD (lowest common denominator) strategy.
Full StoryiPhone 3GS – IT HIPAA Headache or Cure?
I recently spoke to an IT director of a large hospital system that relies on Blackberry for meeting the mobile email needs of their staff. Increasingly, he sees their doctors carrying two devices – a Blackberry that IT provides and an iPhone that the doctor purchased.
Full StoryiPhone Business Intelligence Gets a “Push” Courtesy of Roambi
Roambi now supports iPhone OS 3.0 and has introduced push notifications to automate the publication of new Roambi visualizations to ensure that mobile workers have the most accurate and up-to-date information available on their iPhone.
Full StoryWill iPhone Conquer The Enterprise? 428,000 Search Results Point to Yes
A Google search for “iPhone Love” reveals 428,000 results while “Blackberry Love” has a paltry 135,000. This may seem obvious, but people literally love their iPhones. Why?
Full StoryBox.net; Enterprise-ready Document Collaboration for iPhone
(Box.net) is one of those apps that was created by people that are instinctively inside your head. At every level, they seem to have your business requirements nailed. Publishing, storing, sharing, and managing documents is made effortless, seamless, and highly productive with Box.
Full StoryTrust Digital Announces Enhanced Device Management and Security For iPhone 3GS
Trust Digital’s EMM platform provides a browser-based management console for the iPhone and all other non-Blackberry devices. By removing dependencies on the enterprise email environment, EMM simplifies management and support of iPhone devices.
Full StoryFuture Perfect; iPhone Could Rewrite Definition of “Business Smartphone”
There’s been a lot of talk about enterprise adoption of the iPhone the past couple years. With the release of the 3.0 OS firmware upgrade, support for Microsoft Exchange and beefed up enterprise security and deployment features, there is general agreement that iPhone might ‘just’ be ready for corporate use.
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