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Google has integrated its Google Apps Premier to sync and integrate with BlackBerry making very appealing to enterprise business and educational users.

By installing Google Apps Connector, you integrate the Google Apps messaging suite with BlackBerry Enterprise Server, letting employees use built-in BlackBerry applications to access their Google Apps email, calendar, and contacts.

Now, customers of Google Apps Premier and Education Editions can give their users access to Google Apps email, calendar, and contacts from the built-in BlackBerry applications that many users are already accustomed to. The tight integration between Google connector and the BlackBerry Enterprise Server lets administrators manage BlackBerry access using the tools and policies they're already familiar with.

Features include:

• Messages sent to your Gmail inbox are pushed to your BlackBerry within 60 seconds.
  
• Emails read/deleted on your BlackBerry are marked as read/deleted in Gmail, and vice-versa.
  
• Emails archived/starred on your BlackBerry are archived/starred in Gmail, and vice-versa.
  
• BlackBerry folders are synchronized with labels in Gmail.
  
• You can search for contact information of coworkers from the global address list on your BlackBerry.
  
• Contacts in Gmail are automatically synchronized with your BlackBerry address book.
  
• You can view your Google Calendar schedule with the native BlackBerry application, with one-way synchronization from Google Calendar to your BlackBerry device. Two-way calendar sync with the ability to accept, decline and schedule meetings from your BlackBerry device is not available with this release but we are working on it.
  
• Administrators can use the management and security tools that are part of BlackBerry Enterprise Server.
  

Google Apps Premier and Education Edition customers worldwide can get started with this feature at no charge by downloading Google Apps Connector for BlackBerry Enterprise Server.

MobileIron announced the launch of the MobileIron Virtual Smartphone Platform, the first solution to combine data-driven smartphone management with real-time wireless cost control.

Enterprise data is moving to the smartphone. Wireless costs are skyrocketing. Smartphones have become a risky blind spot for many organizations. MobileIron's patent-pending data virtualization technology is a fundamentally new approach to enterprise mobility. The MobileIron Virtual Smartphone Platform creates a central view of smartphone content, activity, and applications in the data center to give IT and end-users insight into usage, and control over security and cost.

Key features of the MobileIron Virtual Smartphone Platform include:

• Security, device, and application management.
• Enterprise data boundary for employee-owned smartphones.
• Real-time usage alerts for roaming and cost control.
• Operator service quality monitoring.
• MyPhone@Work end-user services.

Nokia and  IBM will be offering Lotus Notes Traveler for Nokia's S60-based devices. It will enable about 80 million users to access to the Lotus Notes email program.

Many Nokia customers are now able to purchase Lotus Notes and access its collaboration capabilities on the go.

IBM Lotus Notes has about 140 million licensed users and this will help enhance Nokia's enterprise offering.

According to IBM's Institute for Business Value, this year, for the first time, more people in the world will have a mobile device than a land-line telephone. IBM predicts one billion mobile web users by 2011 and a significant shift in the way the majority of people will interact with the Web over the next decade. In fact, mobile devices now outnumber television sets, credit cards and personal computers.

PHASE 2 International is now offering ActiveSync for BlackBerry. A low-cost alternative to traditional BlackBerry Enterprise Server subscription service, PHASE 2's new ActiveSync for BlackBerry, an add-on to the Microsoft Exchange server, provides all of the same functionality--and more--for less.

The new PHASE 2 ActiveSync for BlackBerry client downloads over the air and installs automatically on the user's device for seamless BlackBerry synchronization. It provides its own email box, and accesses the native BlackBerry Calendar, Contacts, and Task applications.

Alltel is now offering Webalo Mobile Dashboard that lets companies transform their enterprise applications and data so that it is easy to access and use on the smartphones of mobile employees.

Webalo Mobile Dashboard allows mobile workers to receive important data in a format that is easy to read and navigate. Users can view and interact with information such as customer data, order status, inventory lists, key performance indicators and other vital business intelligence, which makes it easier to answer questions, support decisions, and close deals on the spot - without waiting to return to the office or relying on remote connectivity through a laptop computer.

Designed for businesses of all sizes, the hosted Webalo Mobile Dashboard provides a simple, question-and-answer-based wizard that lets non-IT staff handle setup and deployment. For companies that prefer inside-the-firewall technology, the Webalo Appliance can be installed and integrated with company servers.

Utimaco announced that Gartner has positioned the company in the Leaders Quadrant of the Mobile Data Protection 2008 Magic Quadrant.

According to Gartner, "Leaders have products that work well for Gartner clients in small and large deployments. They have long-term road maps that follow and/or influence Gartner's vision of the developing needs of buyers in the market. Leaders make their competitors' sales staffs nervous and force competitors' technical staffs to follow their lead. Their MDP products are well-known to clients, and they encounter little resistance in selling their products."

Utimaco brings tremendous value to enterprise customers through key management systems that ensure its flagship product, SafeGuard Enterprise, is highly interoperable with other systems and easy to use. Utimaco also boasts partnerships with top vendors including Microsoft, Seagate, Intel and Lenovo to make it easy for enterprise customers to ensure end point systems are highly secure while reducing the total cost of ownership associated with supporting multiple end point agents.

AT&T  announced that the Microsoft System Center Mobile Device Manager 2008 (MDM) is now available to AT&T business customers who use smartphones running Windows Mobile 6.1.

AT&T also announced today the availability of the MDM Early Adopter QuickStart Program that was developed cooperatively by AT&T and Enterprise Mobile and is an exclusive offering designed to assist AT&T customers with deploying the Microsoft mobility solution.  <>

Mobile Device Manager is an enterprise-grade mobile device management solution that also provides security, mobile Virtual Private Network (VPN) and software distribution for Windows Mobile devices. Mobile Device Manager is natively supported by the latest version of the Windows Mobile operating system, Windows Mobile 6.1. Windows Mobile 6.1 is now available for free download to AT&T Tilt and MOTO Q Global smartphones from AT&T, which has the broadest portfolio of Windows Mobile devices of any U.S. carrier. Additional new smartphones launched by AT&T later this year will feature Windows Mobile 6.1 with support for Mobile Device Manager.