iPhone and enterprise apps

The iPhone is going through a series of beta tests for enterprise applications. What does this mean? The possibility of using an iPhone with push email from Microsoft Exchange servers. More from this story on Computerworld.com:

FAQ: What iPhone 2.0 means to you
The gadget meets Exchange, and developers get a green light
By Gregg Keizer
March 9, 2008 (Computerworld)

The iPhone has always been an unusual product in the Apple Inc. lineup. Apple announced the iPhone months before the device went on sale, something the Cupertino, Calif. company never does.

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Apple has licensed Exchange ActiveSync, a communication protocol that synchronizes messages, contacts, calendar items, notes and tasks between a mobile device and an Exchange 2003 or Exchange 2007 server. Unlike tethered sync, which the iPhone now supports, the synchronization happens over a wireless cellular or Wi-Fi connection.

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