MICROSOFT AND BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE

Title: Smartphone Roulette for App Makers

Author:Steve Hamm

Publication: New Business

Date Published: June 10, 2009

Summary: Smartphones are widely used. Many companies such as Apple and Nokia run a operating system called Symbian. Others such as Motorola phones use Google's Android software. Software developers design apps for the different phones and they are starting to realize they cannot make different versions of the applications per phone.

Title: Can the iPhone Translate to the Enerprise?-- Apple eyes the corporate remote device space with its iPhone. But the device faces hurdles

Author:Maria Bruno- Britz

Publication: Bank Systems & Technology

Volume: 45

Issue: 5; pg. 12

Date Published: May 2008

Summary: Cupertino, California based Apple's March announcement introduced a iPhone that is suppose to be enterprise ready. The enterprise iPhone was suppose to be released in June in the form of a new update for iPhone. The update would turn the device into a business tool. The upgrade Microsoft Exchange support allows features such as email, calendars and other enterprise grade applications. Apple updated to Firmware 2.0 and added the ActiveSync licesnsing, so it is helping the enterprise project work more smoothly than it could before. However, many are still worried about the security of the new upgrade and the new applications that will come on the iPhone.