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There are no good technology conferences, my friend.

You are mistaken. They list several.

This sounds like a pitch for a replacement to Good Technology or BlackBerry BES or MobileIron but tied to a single Android phone. I mean the headline says it's a secure phone but it looks like it will require Silent Circle as the communication go between. You can do that now on Android, BB 10, and iOS with BES 10. No special version of Android needed. Hate on BlackBerry all you want but they know security.

Sure you do. Riiiiiiiiight. Welcome to /., where there's always someone with an anecdote, no matter how absurd.

http://media.www1.good.com/documents/Good_Data_BYOD_2011.pdf

"Companies already supporting BYOD policies tended to be largetoverylarge enterprises on average, with 81 percent having more than 2,000 employees, nearly 60 percent having more than 5,000 employees, and 35 percent having more than 10,000 employees."

This is exactly the same as Good ( http://www1.good.com/applications/good-for-enterprise ) and Samsung Knox is something similar.

I wonder if they'll manage to carve out a place for themselves based on BES inertia. However, having administered BES, I sincerely hope they do the dodo.

You can already do this on android and iphone as well with encrypted containers like Good ( http://www.good.com/ ).

The point of virtualising is that it means the OS is COMPLETELY seperate. If you want to upgrade to android 5.3.2 aka "footlong hotdog" (they ran out of dessert names), but your company is still on 4.6.1, you can. If your company image can only send packets via VPN and disallows app installation, you can still do what you want with YOUR image.

Blackberry's seperation is just at the app layer.

Good already does that, today.

Android needs some sort of remote wipe software to make it even remotely feasible for most businesses. For example, the government requires remote wipe, and some sort of encryption. Until Android has a solution for these two, the VPN-less capability is moot.

Like this?

Supporting iPhone (or iPad for that matter) for corporate email might be difficult -I do not believe that there are Notes or Outlook mail apps for these devices (although the new outlook webmail is pretty decent) The other problem I have heard in the past is the lack of ability to provision the phones and apps in bulk instead of having to setup 100 different iTunes account for 100 devices -this is one of the things that probably gives IT departments (and procurement) nightmares.

cf. Good Technologies

just sayin'

A quick google of 'Android Enterprise Management' returned some potential solutions:

Zenprise
Good for Enterprise
3LM

Those were the top three. I'm sure there's more, including RIM's own Android management solution.

If you want FIPS on iOS all you have to do is use Good Technologies app: http://good.com/

Trust me when I say that many government entities are using this to support iOS and Android....

Try looking at Motorola? http://www.good.com/

If memory serves correctly, NTP sued RIM because of the technology they used to push email violated one of their patents. Palm--to my knowledge--doesn't have technology to push email to their devices. That's where companies like http://www.good.com/, and (at the time) http://www.jpmobile.com/ came in. (3rd party addons to add push email to palm devices)
It seems NTP should go after Good--and now Microsoft (For their Exchange/AS Push) if anyone, but not palm.

Then again, what I do know, IANAL.

I used Good Technology with my Treo 600 and I LOVED it. Never had to worry about missing an email/meeting request, no matter where I was.

http://www.good.com/

I'm waiting for the Treo700W GSM to come out now. My Treo 600 GSM is still my favorite phone of all time, and it's held up for over 2 years.

If someone is in the market for Enterprise wireless email, if you ask me, GoodLink is a better choice. People I know who have used both prefer the way GoodLink looks and works. It appears very similar to Outlook on your handheld and it synchs with your email server. When you delete an email on your handheld, it's gone from your mailbox and vice-versa. The part I like best is that if a handheld is lost or stolen or someone quits or gets fired, I can, with just a couple of mouse clicks (confirmation), do a hard reset on any handheld set to access our email system. No, I don't work for Good and I don't get anything for saying this. I'm just happy with their setup.

They mean automatic "push" synchronization, where your phone's calendar and e-mail are updated wirelessly over the cellular network.

GoodLink provides this as well.
Of course, GoodLink is a third-party solution, but it works well with many models of phones, so it could be worth it if only because you are not tied down to a particular brand.

Instead of Blackberry Enterprise Server you may want to compare with GoodLink Wireless Messaging http://www.good.com/index.php/products_wireless_em ail.html

And a dollar short. Good Enterprises has had this technology for several years available on both the Palm and PPC platforms. It frankly kicked the crap out of BES.... http://www.good.com/

Check out Good Technologies. They have software that works on both Palm and PocketPC OSes that does much the same of what Blackberry does except that, you have the option of getting different devices for each user.

Granted though, given the nature of the suit against RIM... I don't see how Good would be able to stay out of it either.

• An OS you can install things into
  
• Camera (not useful for everyone, I know)
  
• Movie camera (ditto)
  
• Real web browser that does some Javascript and SSL
  
• MP3 Player (you'd be surprised at the number of Wall Street types who don't have an iPod and use their phone instead)
  
• Bluetooth (though the newer BBs have this too)
  
• Hotsync with more than just Exchange!
  
• Wireless hotsync!
  
• SD card slot
  
• Software to open Office documents
  
• More games than you can shake a stick at
  
• VNC, SSH, SMS, MMS, IM
  
• VPN Clients! (Mergic, for instance)
  

There is a REAL push email option. The software you seek is Good. No, really. Check out GoodLink ( www.good.com ) and see how they are already one-upping blackberry by doing crazy wacky things like letting you CHOOSE from a bunch of different phones and setup a new managed phone without touching or cradling it, EVER. Palm and Windows Mobile devices are supported with talks of Symbian on the way. The UI is much nicer than BB phones (according to actual BB users) and aside from issues with the Treo 650 itself, the software has been problem free since day 1.

Disc: Not from an employee, but a satisfied customer and guy who has to admin the stuff.

Good Technology makes an alternative GUI (they call it OS but it runs on Palm) for the Treo 600 to make it more enterprise-ready.

Its made as a RIM Blackberry killer with push email delivery and 100% PIM synchronization. I've used it and its very "Good" stuff!

In response to #3, Check out Good Company's Good Link Software. They sync up everything over air--Blackberry doesn't do Contacts or Tasks without going back in the cradle.

We're currently doing feasability testing on the 600 (CDW just shipped it out today) and some Black Berrys. The Good link software works with both, so the Server side application (Good vs BBery Server) is done. Now just to determine the best handheld--although I'm going to predict it's the 600. One last note. GoodLink should--in the future--work with all Palm Enabled Phones (although it's only officially supported on the Treo 600) which will be nice. I really want a Samsung i500.

Why was the link made to EETimes, and not to the actual product page on good.com?

I smell an advertising hit ploy.

Looking at the two MP3 units that are for Handspring, here's my thinking:

The price of the abovementioned Good.com SoundsGood module is too high for what it is. I just walked through Best Buy, and there's a lot of 32Mb and 64Mb standalone MP3 players that are competitive on price.

You're paying for the features that may be presented through the Visor's screen interface. There's just not that much indexing you can do with an hour or two's worth of music.

The formfactor of the delayed competitor, InnoGear MiniJam module is way too blobby. It won't let you keep your Visor in a standard case, because it extends behind and above the basic Visor case.

The SoundsGood appears to have the formfactor right. It stays flush within the space allotted in the main case. Even the headphone jack doesn't appear to interfere with the Visor's clip-lid (either open or closed), it is a bit to the left side. My standard case actually uses one of the clip lids to grasp the Visor, so this is good news for the SoundsGood. I could leave my zippered case open a little on the top edge, and jam.

I'm interested to know whether either of these units will draw many CPU cycles, or block the use of the Visor for its main task, which is to keep me organized.

Both the deluxe and cheap versions of the Handspring Visor come with a microphone built into the case. I still have yet to see ONE application that can use it, whether through software or Springboard hardware. Not even a bundled app makes trivial use of it.

But how many MP3s can you really hold? It says 10 hours, but at what quality?

According to their website:

Holds 64MB of state-of-the-art digital audio (That's a little over an hour*)
* Using standard 128 kbps

see here. The 10 hour thing is a misprint (or they think you want to listen to music recorded at 12.8 kbps).

The company that makes these things is here.