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Nokia's Nokia 9500 Communicator, Trust Digital's Trust Digital Mobile Edition, and Motorola's MotoQ are highlighted in a discussion of smartphone security. When asked their level of concern regarding hackers stealing or corrupting confidential business information stored on a smartphone, close to over two-thirds of respondents to a survey done by Insight Research and sponsored by Symantec were almost evenly divided between lack of concern and extreme concern. The somewhat concerned group was 18%, and the concerned group was also 18%. Nokia will ship the 9300 smartphone, which was specifically designed for executives, without Wi-Fi. Nokia created a VPN client, and Symantec developed antivirus software and Pointsec for smartphones. However, users say those protections are insufficient, since wireless personal digital assistants (PDAs) have to support remote management in order to comply with many corporate policies. A spokeswoman for the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (DVA) also explains that few wireless PDAs meet security requirements in their default configurations. When the department deployed RIM BlackBerry and wireless handhelds running the Microsoft Pocket PC and Palm operating systems (OSs), the U.S. DVA deployed Trust Digital's Trust Digital Mobile Edition to increase security and provide 140-2 government approached encryption for PDAs . The Moto Q will use the Windows Mobile 5.0 OS, which, says an analyst, makes it easier to get e-mail from Microsoft Exchange Server 2003 to a wireless device than with Microsoft's Pocket PC OS for handhelds.
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