Sybase will start selling software that lets people securely distribute email to the iPhone. And here I was, thinking SSL is already invented and implemented in the iPhone. Anyway, the aim here is to please the “business peoples”. The Sybase software will feature security similar to that available on BlackBerry, Treo and other business smartphones.

The software will enable the IT folks to manage the phones remotely, with a healthy does of keywords like “secure enterprise grade” thrown in. Sybase is working on a similar piece of software for the Google Android platform.

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