New Improved SmartPhone OS
Smartphone maker palm improved two Treo devices that run the Palm operating system by adding business-friendly features such as push e-mail for Microsoft Exchange users. But Palm faces a bigger challenge in courting and keeping business customers: convincing them that the Palm OS isn't all but dead.
Palm's adding the kind of features business users want to the Palm OS-based Treo 680 and 700p.
They'll now provide automatic wireless delivery of e-mail, calendar, and contact information directly from Microsoft Exchange Server 2003 SP2 or Exchange 2007. Palm in the past provided the "push" service, the main attribute of Research In Motion & BlackBerry, only through third-party providers, and it required middleware.
The Palm update introduces another feature that's critical to IT administrators: security and central management. It includes over-the-air password policy enforcement and the ability to remotely wipe mobile devices clean of data if they're lost or stolen.
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