Future Enterprise Editor Jonathan Clevenger
First off, I want to thank Don Overlander and Rich Hall for their incredible help in wrapping up the enterprise section for this issue. My first child, Jonathan, was born right in the middle of crunch time, and Don and Rich really helped me out by picking up the slack. Thanks guys!
Our lead-off story for this issue is a piece I wrote about Apple's licensing of Exchange ActiveSync from Microsoft, allowing them to incorporate Exchange synchronization into the iPhone. Additionally, Apple has finally released its iPhone SDK. All this makes the iPhone a potentially strong player in the enterprise market, which may have surprising consequences for Microsoft.
After that, we do a head-to-head comparison of the HP iPAQ 210 vs. the Socket SoMo 650—the leading Windows Mobile PDA devices on the market today. While consumers may not be as excited about devices without phones anymore, there is a significant market for these units within vertical deployments. Don Overlander gives us his views on these two devices from the perspective of an enterprise user.
We've all heard about the FCC's 700 MHz auction. Now that AT&T and Verizon have won and Google is nowhere to be seen, what does it mean to us and the entire industry? Robert Altman provides us with the details and his perspective on the impact the results will have.
One of the most significant new features of Windows Mobile 6.1 is the ability to join an Active Directory domain and become a "first-class citizen" of the enterprise. System Center Mobile Device Manager is Microsoft's new product to enable this in the back-end, as well as provide numerous security and device management features. Patrick Salmon gives us the details, and how we can implement this within our own organizations.
You may have heard about the Celio REDFLY, but you might also be a little unsure about exactly what it is and what it does. I had the opportunity to spend some time with a pre-release model, and provide my first impressions and views on what may very well be a paradigm-shifting device.
When the U.S. Forest Service needed to understand the impact of seismic oil and gas explorations on sensitive species, John Stewart and his 14-person crew were sent to perform a biological inventory in waist-high snow on the north face of Utah's Monroe Mountain, armed with snowshoes and ruggedized Archer Field PCs. John and Jan Saalfeld tell us how they overcame the challenges to complete the project.
Mobile development projects often appear to be deceivingly easy, especially to first-time mobile developers. Unfortunately, there are often complications that appear farther down the road. Tom Jaros comes from the trenches to give us four key tips to improve the success of our mobile projects.
Microsoft recently re-released their Line of Business Solution Accelerator, designed to show off many of the new features in Visual Studio 2008, .NET Compact Framework 3.5, and SQL Server Compact. Don Overlander gives us his impressions of this free tool, and a detailed look at what it provides.
If you have questions or comments, you can always e-mail me at nathan [dot] clevenger [at] smartphonemag [dot] com.
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