One of the most important is Apple's deal with Microsoft to use the latter's ActiveSync and Exchange technology.
And Jobs had no complaints about Microsoft's Exchange ActiveSync, which Apple has licensed, to provide these functions for the iPhone.
With protocols like Exchange ActiveSync, email on a smartphone can be made nearly as secure as the email on a PC.
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Improved Bluetooth (e.g. ability to use ActiveSync over Bluetooth with multiple PCs).
For example, Apple delivers email to iPhone and iPad users who use Exchange by way of a license for ActiveSync, a Microsoft protocol.
It appears the next major update of Windows Phone, code named Apollo, is rumored to replace the useless Zune syncing with something like ActiveSync.
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Microsoft is trying to quash RIM's messaging service with a technology called ActiveSync that relays e-mails to phones directly from its ubiquitous Exchange e-mail servers.
This includes on-device AES-256 bit encryption, enhanced support for Microsoft Exchange ActiveSync and support for industry-leading Virtual Private Network (VPN) and Mobile Device Management (MDM) solutions.
Today is the day that Google has been planning to shut off its support for Exchange ActiveSync, but it appears that the company has had a slight change of heart.
This boosts the Exchange ActiveSync features it already had.
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The biggest news: Apple has licensed Microsoft's Exchange ActiveSync for the iPhone, allowing iPhone users to pour e-mail and calendar information living on their company's Microsoft Exchange systems directly into the iPhone.
Samsung SAFE smartphones and tablets provide stronger security to corporate employees using IT policy management through Microsoft Exchange ActiveSync (EAS), top-tier, multi-vendor Mobile Device Management (MDM) and Virtual Private Network (VPN) support, as well as on device encryption (ODE).
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With a couple of taps, and without slackening my pace, I was able to record the seeds of these thoughts using the voice record utility in iOS. Thanks to ActiveSync, I was able to email the voice file to myself for later transcription.
That includes details on the pre-loaded XPERIA panels, along with word of DLNA-compatible media sharing via ActiveSync or WiFi, details on the video recording options (30fps MPEG-4 and 30fps H.263, both VGA), and confirmation that the only browser included will be Internet Explorer.
That makes Canadian Dreams and Magics a whole hell of a lot more useful to business users than the G1s down in the States, and going forward, this is an issue T-Mobile probably wants to think about -- as long as the base Android code doesn't license ActiveSync, anyway.
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For a platform billing itself as the business user's best friend, BlackBerry's list of unsupported protocols that have achieved ubiquity is actually astonishing: you can't do two-way read status sync with an IMAP email account, for example, and amazingly, you can't natively connect to an Exchange ActiveSync service without being routed through RIM's back-end software.
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