Apple is expected to announce a strategy tomorrow to use its Web-browsing iPhone to move into the corporate market. Apple will likely unveil plans to spur development of more software for the
phone, to improve security on the device, and to make it compatible with popular e-mail systems such as Microsoft's Outlook.
The moves will put Apple into direct competition with
Research In Motion, whose BlackBerry devices now dominate the wireless e-mail market.
The iPhone may well represent Apple's best chance in years of tapping the corporate market. "The next
big battleground is the wireless [market for corporations]," says Rich Nespola, chairman and CEO of Management Network Group, a telecommunications consultancy. But Apple faces a battle to build up
credibility with corporate buyers after years of largely ignoring them.
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