`Corporations are concerned about the levels of security required in handheld and mobile devices,'' says Kevin Burden, manager of IDC's Smart Handheld Devices research. ``They are now recognizing security expenses as part of the overall cost of doing business in a widely distributed, increasingly wireless ebusiness environment.'' [PDABuzz.com]
I don't know many financial companies who actually use their issued PDA's for financial apps yet. But that is bound to change. Sun's current push of a bunch of new API's for J2ME onto phones and PDA's looks particularly interesting for our industry, but Microsoft of course have a few tricks up their sleave too with .NET.
In the coming months I'll keep an eye on the various emerging technologies as they are being developed and discuss their uses in the Financial Apps. By the nature of Mobile Apps, Security really will have to be the single most important factor when developing and deploying them, so we need to keep on top of this.
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