Firms using the Lotus Domino email system can now provide push email to people using Apple’s iPhone. The only requirement is that the Domino servers be running Lotus Domino server version 8.5.1 or higher, and must be configured to use the optional Domino Traveler software module.
Once the Traveler software is installed, users can connect to [...]

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In September Google announced the availability of its Push email service for iPhone, iPod Touch and Windows Mobile devices.
The idea behind the Push service is that notifications of new email messages are sent, or pushed, directly to the phone as soon as an email arrives at the Gmail server. This is in contrast to the [...]

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Apple has released version 3.1 iPhone software but Internet telephone app vendor Truphone warns users not to upgrade just yet.
Truphone said customers may encounter service problems with the current version of the Truphone application (version 3.0.2) if they install OS 3.1.
Truphone makes software for the iPhone which enables people to make telephone calls via the [...]

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Internet telephone specialist Skype has launched a new version of its iPhone software optimized for work with the latest Apple iPhone OS 3 software and iPhone 3GS hardware.
Skype on the iPhone enables users to make free Skype to Skype voice calls and have free text based chat sessions with other Skype users.
In our tests, the [...]

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Internet tethering is a new iPhone feature included in the recently released OS 3 that allows your iPhone to provide mobile broadband for your laptop of desktop computer. You don’t need to buy a new iPhone to use Internet Tethering, it also works with any 3G iPhone that has been upgraded to OS 3.
Although it’s [...]

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The Hypervisor Labs tests show upgrading iTunes and QuickTime is essential before upgrading an iPhone to the new OS3 software. In our tests we found the iPhone upgrade worked perfectly provided iTunes had already been upgraded to version 8.2. However, when we tried upgrading an iPhone using iTunes 8.0 the upgrade failed mid-way, leaving the [...]

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Hping is open-source network testing software, and some time ago one our software gurus compiled a version of Hping to run on the Sharp Zaurus, which is a fairly ancient Linux based mobile device. Although the Zaurus may be long in the tooth, the software should also work on other Linux based devices that use the StrongArm [...]

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Launched in December, Logmein Ignition for iPhone allows iPhone and iPod Touch users to remote control PCs using the popular LogMeIn web service.
LogMeIn.com provides remote control of multiple PCs from normal desktop web browsers such as Firefox and Internet Explorer, and says its users connect to 50 million devices through its service.
Users register with LogMeIn [...]

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I’ve recently been working on a project to make Lotus Notes email available to users of the Apple iPhone.
It turns out there’s quite a few commercial products that claim to do this, but most of the ones I’ve tried seem to not work properly. Perhaps this is because IBM recently announced support for direct connections [...]

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By Roger Howorth
Late last year Microsoft launched Office Communications Server (OCS) 2008 and Office Communicator 2007, the complementary desktop client for the new server suite. If nothing else, the pair could be used as a bargaining tool to help reduce the costs of office telecoms.
If you haven’t seen them yet, they’re well worth a look. [...]

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