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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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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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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One of the most important is Apple's deal with Microsoft to use the latter's ActiveSync and Exchange technology.
For example, Apple delivers email to iPhone and iPad users who use Exchange by way of a license for ActiveSync, a Microsoft protocol.
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.
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