Apple is starting to push the iPhone from the realm of the trendy and hip into the enterprise. Maybe el Jobso will be trading in his black t-shirts and Adidas running shoes for Brooks Brother suits.
Here’s the copy from the Apple web site:
What makes iPhone a great business phone? Simple. The same features that make it a revolutionary mobile device. With iPhone 2.0 software, iPhone does even more for your enterprise. It supports Microsoft Exchange ActiveSync, delivering push email, calendar, and contacts. And it gives mobile users secure access to corporate resources with Cisco IPSec VPN and wireless network services with WPA2 Enterprise and 802.1X authentication.
Maybe the iPhone is becoming a PC device, as in pretty corporate.
Here’s a video with corporate IT guys talking about how great the iPhone is for the mobile enterprise even the U.S army talks about how important the iPhone is for highly mobile forces that get shot at.
Red Hat News | RHX: Lessons Learned - RHX is different now. The team is smaller and the target market is different; but, fundamentally, RHX is smarter. It’s very much alive and is undergoing its third iteration.
The Real Firefox-Killer | Linux Journal - This new competitor to Firefox is called Maxthon, and, significantly, come from China. This is relevant because the Chinese computer sector has tended to evolve according to its own rules.
Linux News: Business: Open Source Development Is Smart Business - To succeed and truly benefit the open source community, companies need to find a balance between maintaining their competitive advantage and working closely with customers and developers.
Would the baddest Roadrunner please step forward - IBM’s supercomputer called Roadrunner is now the fastest in the world.
It is capable of sustaining 1,000 trillion operations per second, which is a lot.
Interchange Open Source Commerce Server - Interchange is an open source commerce server and application server/component application, written in the Perl programming language.
Red Hat looks out for OSS community with patent settlement - Red Hat announced today that it has settled a patent dispute with Firestar and DataTern over two patents, including one that covers object-relational database mapping—a technique that is used in Hibernate
Linux.com :: openSUSE’s Brockmeier sees distro coming into its own - After two and a half years, the distro is not only still working out details about how its community operates — including how its governing board is elected — but also struggling to come out of the shadow of its corporate parent Novell
Linux.com :: Linux in education: Open Source provides a better solution for schools - Linux has been making inroads into K-12 education for years, but Microsoft’s move to require an audit of 300 school districts nationwide has brought Open Source into the educational limelight. As schools analyze alternatives to hefty licensing fees.
Specter: Immunity for journalists, not eavesdropping telecoms - Senator Arlen Specter with a panel of journalists at the American Civil Liberties Union’s annual convention earlier this week to urge support for a federal shield law that would protect journalists from being compelled to disclose confidential sources.
BusinessWeek - Nokia: Linux Needs to Learn Business - At the Handsets World conference in Berlin on Tuesday, Dr Ari Jaaksi told delegates that the open-source community needed to be ‘educated’ in the way the mobile industry currently works, because the industry has not yet moved beyond old business models.
I have been resisting using any of the Firefox 3.0 beta’s because of my reliance on Firefox extensions not yet ready for 3.0 but it seems like my Firefox 2.0 keeps bogging down (Perhaps due to my inability to close old tabs). With all the hype about the speed of Firefox 3.0 I decided to start using the release candidate.
However my dependency on extensions was to much to bear so I decided to look for some way to defeat Firefox’s extension checking.
In the URL bar type about:config which will result in the following warning box:
Click, “I’ll be careful, I promise!
Next you see a list of parameters, right-click on the screen and select New>Boolean from the menu dialogue.
Name the configuration extensions.checkCompatibility then click the false value.
Right-click again and create a new boolean pair called extensions.checkUpdateSecurity and set the value to false again.
Restart Firefox
Now the reason there are checks is so that you don’t have a fatal error which is exactly what I got after doing this hack. Some extensions are innocuous and others aren’t I guess my favorites fall into the aren’t category. Luckily you can restart Firefox in safe mode. You’ll get the following dialogue:
Check the Disable All Add-ons box and then click Continue in Safe Mode. Type extensions.check in the filter box which should give you the two keys you set in the earlier procedure. Reset the values to defaults. Then restart Firefox. When you restart you should have all the “safe” extensions activated.
You could then uninstall extensions one-by-one, then repeat the procedure to find the ones that were causing the problems depending on your need for certain add-ons. Oh well, let’s hope there are updates for my favorite extensions soon after next week’s release.
The community powered marketing engine for the Firefox project, SpreadFox is pushing to set a Guinness World Record for the most downloads in 24 hours. So far they have over 1.1 million pledges to download Firefox on the June 17th launch date. Show your support and pledge today.
Most open source luminaries are known for their code, their successful startup successes or even their outspokenness. Andre Boisvert comes to open source from a different angle. Having worked for two billionaire programmers, Larry Ellison and Jim Goodnight, Andre’s transition from proprietary software to open source software has been an interesting journey.
Andre started out his career at IBM where he spent 13 years. At Big Blue he was fast tracked through various positions in sales, marketing and R&D as part of their executive program. He then left for a turn around at Cognos (now owned by IBM). He’s been the President and COO of the world’s largest private software company, SAS Institute Inc. and has been the SVP of Marketing at Oracle. After working for some of the largest proprietary software companies, Andre now works primarily advising open source startups using his experience in order to help them better compete with some of his former employers. Though he keeps a relatively low profile in the open source community though he’s definitely a mover and a shaker.
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Apple is starting to push the iPhone from the realm of the trendy and hip into the enterprise. Maybe el Jobso will be trading in his black t-shirts and Adidas running shoes for Brooks Brother suits.
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