Monday, March 23, 2009

iPhone gains smidge of enterprise cred

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iPhone gains smidge of enterprise cred

Joanie Wexler By Joanie Wexler
The Apple iPhone's credibility as an enterprise-class device continues to inch ahead. Perhaps the smartphone's most promising enterprise characteristics currently lie in the thousand or so new APIs that Apple has just released for it. Read full story

Joanie Wexler is an independent networking technology writer/editor in Silicon Valley.

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