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Comment Re:Hardware v. Software (Score 1) 126

by adumonit on Wednesday December 08, 2010 @03:44AM (#34484222) Attached to: Summarizing the Apple-Android Patent Battle

insightful. I had been totally clueless of hardware patents. If they are as you describe them and Apple did steal Motorola's technology, then this battle is definitely epic. How many iPhones are there? and... lol... how big is Motorola?!!!

When Your Company Remote-Wipes Your Personal Phone 446

Posted by kdawson on Tuesday November 23, 2010 @06:33PM from the unfair-exchange dept.

Xenographic writes "NPR has a story about someone whose personal iPhone got remotely wiped by their employer. It was actually a mistake, but it was something of a surprise because they didn't believe they had given their employer any kind of access to do that. This may already be very familiar to Microsoft Exchange admins, but the problem was her iPhone's integration with MS Exchange automatically gives the server admin access to do remote wipes. All you have to do is configure the phone to receive email from an MS Exchange server and the server admin can wipe your phone at will. The phone wasn't bricked, even though absolutely all of its data was wiped, because the data could be restored from backup, assuming that someone had remembered to make one. But this also works on other devices like iPads, Blackberry phones, and other smartphones that integrate with MS Exchange. So if you read your work email on your personal phone or tablet, you might want to make sure that you keep backups, just in case."

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