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.
Control your TiVo from your iPhone. Apparently this is made possible by an “integration point” for Crestron systems. Makes me want to visit a friend and run NMAP against his TiVo
Our company has moved to Skype as its standard for instant messaging mainly because we like the chat room feature and it includes the added benefit of making calls (we just added a new office). I particularly like the logging features that allow you to retain past conversations which is handy for going back and grabbing phone numbers and URLs that are often passed back and forth among co-workers.
Here are some of the tips and tricks I have picked up in the first couple of weeks using Skype on a daily basis. Some came from my co-workers some are on my list of to try later. Read the full story
I travel a lot and I use an iPhone so I like to load up on videos to watch when I am stuck on a plane. While you can buy videos from iTunes store I own a bunch of DVDs that I had originally ripped to AVI format and there is a ton of other free content out their like video podcasts that I would be happy to use. There are two tools I consistently use to make my video playable on the iPhone. Both tools are free but available only for the Mac.
A lot of my videos in my collection are saved in AVI format and at a higher resolution than my IPhone can display. iSquint can convert virtually any video format to a smaller format that is playable by iPhone an by reducing the resolution it reduces the size making the video more portable.. The iSquint converter is a nice easy drag and drop utility that will convert videos to a format and resolution appropriate for the iPhone or video iPod.
As I mentioned there is plenty of free content on the web at YouTube and other video sharing sites, and while you can surf you tube when you have a connection you are out of luck when you are off line. flash and convert them to mp4 format that you can play on your iPhone. TubeTV also lets you search for videos. I like TubeTV because it will find the video, save it, and then convert it. Though most of the time I past URLs from NetNewsWire to TubeTV and then process the download.
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