CIOs leery of iPhone; What Network Worlders are saying

Special News Alert NETWORK WORLD SPECIAL NEWS ALERT, 06/28/07 CIOs leery of iPhone While Apple’s music, phone and Internet device may seem tailor-made for the consumer market, there’s no doubt business users and IT executives are paying attention to the iPhone. IT executives across the country are being deluged with inquiries from employees who want to know whether they can use the iPhone to access work e-mail. Consumer Reports: AT&T’s network might hinder iPhone success The national publication that rates and evaluates everything from mattresses to cars to washing machines points out in a press release that for "several years running AT&T… has been among the least-satisfying service providers." Gartner to IT: Avoid Apple's iPhone Sprint and Verizon Wireless set to battle Apple iPhone fervor Developers split on iPhone access usefulness The iPhone: Open or closed? Apple's iPhone may struggle out of the gate AT&T details iPhone service plans, iTunes activation Will wait for beer: iPhone spawns gray market Before iPhone: The most-hyped tech products of all time What Network Worlders are SAYING about the iPhone Mobile Carriers Worst Nightmare The iPhone didn’t create hype, but it may have perfected it Apple underestimating competitors again Motorola "Perturbed" Enough with the iPhone predictions already 3 billion have mobile phones and not a single one is an iPhone iPhone Will Be A Lot More Secure than SmartPhones First iPhone Reviews Out Early iPhone lines and long-ago tales Apple Does Do Exchanges $18 an hour to wait in an iPhone line? Secret iPhone Testing Sprint Panics In Face Of iPhone Mania Why Motorola et al Couldn't Have Created The iPhone I See A Whole New Business Apple iPhone Failure According to Experts Switching from BlackBerry to iPhone iPhone Tsunami Forces CellPhone Vendors To React Microsoft Surface: It’s not an iPhone, it’s a big table Apple iPhone Developers Caveats More iPhone costs revealed iPhone Guided Tour Apple iPhone Does't Support Flash iPhone No AntiMatter iPhone Exchange Baloney Verizon CEO whistling past the iPhone? Apple iPhone Key To Solving AIDS Epidemic Multimedia Apple iPhone "first look" Podcast: We're not camping for our iPhone Slideshow: Top summer gadgets other than an iPhone

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