“Do you have that sexy new Apple iPhone in the palm of your hand? And yearning to connect to your corporate Exchange e-mail account, contacts and calendar? And grinding your teeth because Apple doesn’t yet support Exchange? UK-based Synchronica will let you do just that, without punching holes in your corporate firewall. All you need is access to Synchronica’s Mobile Gateway 3.0, formerly called SyncML Gateway,” John Cox reports for Network World.

“A slight change on Mobile Gateway was all that was needed to create a completely transparent connection between iPhone’s native e-mail client and Synchronica’s own corporate Exchange server,” Cox reports. “‘If I delete a spam [message] on my iPhone, it is deleted in Exchange,’ Brinkshulte says. ‘If I send an e-mail from the iPhone and then come back to office, it is shown in the ‘sent-items’ folder of my Outlook/Exchange [screen]. There’s no need of ‘copy to self’ workarounds,’ says Carston Brinkshulte, CEO.”

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