Verizon iPhone: Not for Serious Business Professionals [UPDATE] - CBS News
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MoneyWatch
UPDATE: :It will be available on February 10
Starting at $200 for the 16 GB version and 2 year minimum contract
It will not be on the Verizon 4G network
A hotspot application, which turns the iPhone into a Wi-Fi location, will be available
along with AT&T (T). , but it doesn't, or shouldn't, matter to the average professional. When it comes to security and functionality, the iPhone lags behind the RIM (RIMM) Blackberry, Google (GOOG) Android, and Palm lines. Those phones may not be as sexy as the iPhone, but they
are built with the enterprise customer in mind -- and many have the security to go along with that mentality.
Skeptical? Consider this:iPhone has no tethering capabilities, no ability to use Flash
One major problem with the iPhone is that it only offers one experience, albeit a well-thought-out one. Would you like the iPhone design, but with a tactile keyboard? It doesn't exist. Neither does the iPhone have tethering capability that allows you to use it to get a connected computer online, nor the ability to use Flash to read still a large percentage of the world-wide web.
At the end of the day, Apple only allows users to choose between memory sizes. Compare this to the literally dozens of phones available from any competitor, including upstart Google (GOOG), which already has more than 50 Android phones out. Compared to this, Steve Jobs and company have created a beautiful, well-kept jail.iPhone still has privacy and security weaknesses
Apple often chides Google's open source platform, claiming that the iPhone has a secure environment because it vets each of the apps and narrowly defines what the user can control -- but that's not true., here is a small list of the iPhone privacy and security issues that came up in 2010:An Apple iOS loophole made it easy for remote, malicious takeovers
A Russian software program allows access to users' password-protected data backups
The iPhone keeps a text log of everything typed on the virtual keyboard, including passwords and private account information
Equally disturbing, , a new protocol that does aggressive information gathering of the user without giving anyone a chance to op out. Websites traditionally use a tracking notice, called a cookie, to know when a user has returned to the site so it can remember the user preferences. Users are usually asked whether they will allow cookies and, most importantly, cookies are routinely deleted after a certain time.
Experts say the Apple-supported HTML 5 has so-called "supercookies" which, as
describes:Worse, the files can't be deleted. The new supercookies store themselves in several different places on your machine, so even if you delete some of them they persist, or "respawn," resurrecting themselves from other parts of your machine.
No big impact in the business world
Yes, millions of fanboys (and girls) will snap up the Verizon iPhone immediately, but it is doubtful that small business and corporate customers will switch over. Google provides more phone options, Palm and Blackberry know the business audience, and Microsoft, though new with Windows Phone 7, has a long reputation with corporations and promises compatibility with its PC products.
Between the lack of phone choices and the security issues, the Verizon iPhone is more a small victory for Apple than a death blow to everyone else. //
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verizonbusiness正在拓展与扩大其已很广泛的专用ip(privateip)的全球覆盖面，以满足大型跨国企业的全球和地区性网络通信需求。凭借更集中的国内覆盖范围、增强的服务水平协议、改进的报告能力以及第六级服务，verizonbusiness的专用ip服务（基于第三层多协议标签交换(mpls)的虚拟专用网(virtualprivatenetwork)）为客户提供了更大的灵活性和对其网络更
verizonbusiness正在拓展与扩大其已很广泛的专用ip(privateip)的全球覆盖面，以满足大型跨国企业的全球和地区性网络通信需求。凭借更集中的国内覆盖范围、增强的服务水平协议、改进的报告能力以及第六级服务，verizonbusiness的专用ip服务（基于第三层多协议标签交换(mpls)的虚拟专用网(virtualprivatenetwork)）为客户提供了更大的灵活性和对其网络更好的控制。 　　verizonbusiness产品营销部副总裁mikemarcellin表示：“专用ip是verizonbusiness新一代产品与服务组合的基础。我们继续扩大专用ip的影响力与性能，以帮助确保集声音、数据和视频于一体的应用产品能凭借客户所需的速度、性能与可靠性进入全球企业网络。” 　　关于verizonbusiness专用ip网络可靠性的一个主要例子就是2006年12月发生在台湾沿海的一次地震，其严重干扰了东亚地区的通信并测试了verizonbusiness的网络恢复能力。在8根海下电缆被损坏的情况 下，该公司的专长、创造力以及24小时为客户服务的承诺确保了六大洲的verizonbusiness专用ip网络几乎没有任何的停工时间。 　　erizonbusiness全球网络策划(globalnetworkplanning)部副总裁ihabtarazi表示：“这是史上最广泛的一次海底电缆断供。22个区域有八根电缆断供，而且其中大多数电缆线路的一些线段在很长一段时间内未能使用。”
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