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The Social Phenom That Was This Year's Dreamforce September 12, 2011 
At the biggest Salesforce.com event to date, Dreamforce '11, vendors had ample opportunities to strut their stuff. In fact, more than 46,000 people -- many of them very socially engaged -- registered this year. "In less than a decade, Dreamforce has become the largest conference in the enterprise software industry," said Fergus Griffin, vice president of product marketing for Salesforce.com.
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iPhone Security: Priceless March 11, 2011 
The Android operating system continues to grow in popularity and the options it offers also have grown tremendously. Diversity can be a wonderful thing, but it may be coming at a cost in the form of a security risk. That's right -- everything you do on your phone is risky if you don't play by the rules. So what are the rules?
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Who's on the Mobile Security Job? March 09, 2011 
Enterprises are coming to realize that while their VPNs might be doing a fine job of controlling data, mobile devices have turned into a veritable wild west of security nightmares. It was all well and good when the only thing they had to worry about was data being accessed by enterprise BlackBerry users. Its proprietary server infrastructure has always provided a welcome security blanket for email security.
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Report: Mobile Malware Will Clobber Enterprise Security in 2011 December 28, 2010 
iPads, iPhones and Android smartphones will be among the major targets for cybercriminals in the coming year, McAfee has warned. That's because the consumerization of technology is leaving enterprise IT unprepared for the onslaught of personal devices in the corporate environment.
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Jailbreakers Smell Trouble in New Apple Security Patent August 23, 2010 
Apple has apparently filed a patent for technology that might make its mobile devices more secure, though it's also raised pointed questions about how privacy would be impacted if the company opted to implement the technology in its products. The technology could identify an unauthorized user, which would include hackers, jailbreakers and users who change out the device's SIM card.
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SAP Mobile CRM Users Can Have Their Security and Their iPhones Too August 16, 2010 
Sybase has only recently formally entered the SAP corporate family. However, the two companies have collaborated on software integration projects for years: hence, the introduction of Sybase Mobile Sales for SAP CRM, a native iPhone app.
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Citigroup Upgrades Careless iPhone Banking App July 27, 2010 
Citigroup customers who do mobile banking on an iPhone should head to the Apple App Store immediately for an upgrade. A flaw in the Citigroup mobile banking iPhone app released in March 2009 causes personal information to be saved in a hidden file on the mobile device, the banking giant revealed in a letter to customers dated July 20, a day after it released an upgraded application.
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New Worm Gives Jailbroken iPhones the Ol' Rickroll November 10, 2009
Although it apparently causes no actual harm besides a trivial annoyance, a worm that hits jailbroken iPhones has security researches worried. The so-called Ikee worm was discovered by security researchers recently. It installs a picture of pop singer Rick Astley and displays the message "Ikee is never going to give you up" on victims' iPhones.
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Agile Turns Labor of Necessity Into Best Seller June 22, 2009 
When some PC users move to a Mac, they occasionally can't find an Apple analog for a bread-and-butter application they had in the Windows world. In those cases, most users learn to live without their cherished app. The folks at Agile Web Solutions, though, learned how to build a business on theirs.
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iPods, iPhones and the Enterprise Data Clampdown November 24, 2008 
It's a safe bet that most enterprise employees don't haul their personal laptops into the workplace. However, with the ever-increasing capabilities of iPods and iPhones these days, are workers introducing new issues for IT security? The Apple iPod touch now comes with a whopping 32 GB of storage space and built-in WiFi capable of attaching to nearly ubiquitous corporate wireless networks.
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Spammers Bait Hooks With Fake iPhone Game September 19, 2008 
Security firm Sophos issued a warning Thursday about e-mails purportedly offering free iPhone games. The missives profess to feature a free game for the smartphone, but the only thing those who download the attachment receive is malware designed to infect PCs running Windows.
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Is Apple Souring on Intel? April 23, 2008 
Apple has purchased chip designer P.A. Semi for $278 million in cash, according to Forbes. The Santa Clara, Calif.-based firm is a self-described fabless semiconductor firm that delivers processors for the high-performance embedded-computing market. The company specializes in low-power chips that could be useful in Apple's iPhone and iPod devices.
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Apple to Take Padlock Off iPhone October 18, 2007 
After months of vehement proclamations that the iPhone would support only third-party applications over a Web browser, Apple CEO Steve Jobs announced Wednesday in an open letter on the Apple Web site that the company will release a software development kit to developers in February. The kit would allow software makers to create iPhone applications that would reside on the phone itself, not on the Web.
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Big Apple Patch Includes 11th Hour iPhone Fix August 01, 2007 
Apple released three security updates Tuesday that correct a slew of bugs, including a hole discovered last week in the one-month-old iPhone. This is Apple's seventh security update this year. The bundled patches fix approximately 45 vulnerabilities in the Mac OS X operating system, the Safari browser for Windows beta, and the iPhone.
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Hackers Could Hijack Your iPhone July 23, 2007 
A hole in the iPhone's security apparatus could allow a hacker to take complete control of the device, warn researchers at Independent Security Evaluators, who identified the flaw. The exploit is delivered via a malicious Web page opened in the Safari browser on the iPhone, according to ISE.
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iPhone: Security Predators Salivating July 09, 2007 
In the week or so since the iPhone has been on the market, hackers have discovered the root password for the device, which is "Alpine"; found another password for the mobile user account, which is "Dottie"; and posted a workaround to the AT&T activation, so new owners can bypass AT&T's fees.
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