“The online collaboration company WebEx has launched an iPhone-compatible version of its remote-access service, PCNow,” David Meyer reports for ZDNet UK.
“Like NetSuite’s software-as-a-service applications for the iPhone, the new version of PCNow will run through the user’s in-phone Safari browser. The application will allow access to the user’s desktop PC files, as well as Microsoft Outlook corporate email, appointments and contacts,” Meyer reports.
“PCNow also enables the use of full Skype VoIP functionality, including SkypeOut. WebEx, which was recently bought by the networking giant Cisco, says the application will be made available to UK users as soon as the device is launched here later in the year, although US iPhone users can sign up for a free 30-day trial immediately,” Meyer reports.
Full article here.
Well, I guess this is it. No stopping the tidal wave of corporate douchebag types infesting our platform now. Will the last real Mac user out please turn off the light?
This is HUGE! Now we can use Skype with our iPhones……may not work very well on the Edge network but it’ll probably be okay on the WiFi…….
Nevertheless, AT&T just lost some cash on international calls….
Mike
Sorry….my bad….guess Skype on iphone was already possible…
skypeforiphone.com
I use jajah VoIP on my iPhone and it works great.
I predicted that ages ago, even before the iphone was released, I said that Cisco & Apple would create a symbiotic relationship that would see the iphone command airwaves via mobile operators & landline via Cisco’s network.
Was I right? or was I right!
With the same breathe, I saw yesterday some analyst repeating my exact words by stating that Apple’s underated killer application was OSX! I tell you!! The analyist reads our blogs and then publishes them as his own insight culminated from hard research!!!
Betch!
The i-phone has not been that corporate friendly so far.
I am slowly but surely switching myself and my family over to macs. I was so excited to get the i-phone has I have to travel internationally for my company and they have an at&t account. It would be great to have a portable wifi device to check e-mail, etc. and not pay hefty roaming charges. When I try to set up my i-phone, I discover that apple will not allow it to go on corporate accounts. One has to open a brand new private account with a SS number. Being that the charges are exactly the same for my current at&t account I can not figure this one out. AT&T insists that apple required this so that new accounts would be established and they would get their kickbacks. I would think that getting these to business users would be more profitable in the long run. Now I have to fight with my company to create a new expense report.
BTW: The Apple store in Phoenix Arizona is horrible. The staff is rude, they don’t know their products, and their network is constantly crashing.
The Apple stores in Seoul Korea and Nagoya Japan are awesome. Great people working there and the stores are immaculate.
@ MDN Why is this site that has supposedly recieved an overhaul so damn unstable?
1) News page is blank, refreshing 1/2 a dozen times does not seem to overcome that.
2) When you finally do get the news to come up, posting a blog comes back squished up.
3) Going back to the previous page displays only the blog but not the news above.
4) Openning a new page results in a proper page display but no password at the bottom, just the dreaded white Question mark on a blue background!!
WAKE UP! MDN!! & SMELL THE COFFEE!!!
Your iPhone has been assimilated.
Crabapple,
We believe we have corrected the issue now.
Thank you.
“…Will the last real Mac user out please turn off the light?…”
Yeah! Down with the man! Hey, hey, LBJ! How many…
Wait a minute… what year is this?
tvdoqi, it’s “corporate douchebag types” who make the mac and the iPhone. You think hippies are out there somewhere weaving iPods out of tree bark and free-range chicken shit?
yikes! how many of me are there?
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