July 2008
Monthly Archive
Planning for and Supporting the iPhone in Business Environments
Published at InformIT – 7/31/2008
Making use of the iPhone in business environments requires more than buying and passing out iPhones to employees. Planning for purchases, understanding how you will manage mass activations, planning for Exchange access, and determining how you will support users are all issues that businesses large and small need to consider when adopting the iPhone as a supported platform. In this article, you’ll find out about the unique options and challenges associated with business and enterprise adoption of the iPhone.
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How to Configure and Deploy the iPhone 3G for Business – Part 1
Published at Computerworld – 7/30/2008
Since the announcement of the iPhone 3G and iPhone 2.0 firmware this spring, Apple has touted the device’s ability to integrate into business and enterprise environments. In the first of this three-piece series, I take a look at what IT departments need to know in order to successfully roll out and support the iPhone as a business device. In this installment, find out how to plan iPhone purchases and deployments as well as to create profiles that automatically configure settings and email accounts.
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AquaConnect Helps Macs, Others Share Desktop Apps
Published at Computerworld – 7/30/2008
Terminal servers aren’t new to the IT world – Citrix and Windows Terminal Services have offered clients the ability to remotely connect and run full GUI desktops and applications remotely for quite some time. AquaConnect now brings that capability to Mac OS X Server, allowing a diverse range of clients to run Mac OS X and Mac-specific applications through a server session. Even though it’s still very much a version one product, AquaConnect shows a lot of promise for many network environments. Get all the details in this review
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Buying an iPhone 3G – What You Should Know Before Heading to the Store
Published at InformIT – 7/18/2008
Whether you’re an existing iPhone owner considering upgrading to an iPhone 3G, or a new user planning to purchase an iPhone for the first time, these tips will help you be prepared when you go to an Apple or AT&T store to buy your new iPhone.
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Review: The iPhone 3G Was Worth the Wait
Published at Computerworld – 7/12/2008
Despite standing in line since just after dawn and hours of frustrating delays in activation, the iPhone 3G proves to be well worth the wait. Get all the details of my iPhone launch day experience along with my first impressions of the the game-changing device in this review.
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Secrets of the Mac trackpad, from iBook to MacBook Air
Published at Computerworld – 7/8/2008
Do you think you know how to get the most of your Mac notebook’s trackpad or about Apple’s history of introducing the first notebook trackpad and it’s subsequent innovations of the trackpad? If you answered yes, don’t be so certain. From accidental “features” of early PowerBook trackpads to multi-touch gestures ways to get add ranges of new tap and drag features to almost any Mac notebook, this article is bound to have tricks for Mac users old and new alike.
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