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Sybase announced that it would be launching a new software for the iPhone that will let users access their email in a secured environment. This new program will be similar to the ones used in BlackBerry and Palm Treo handsets and will be made available to iPhone users sometime before the end of this year.

Although there are not to many details given by Sybase yet, one thing was confirmed though regarding this new program, “It will be secure enterprise grade”. And perhaps this is more than enough reason to anticipate this new program as it was what made RIM’s BlackBerry devices and Palm Treo’s popular among business mobile phone users.

Sybase has been known as a reliable business software maker not only among these two smartphone manufacturers but with other smartphones running on Symbian OS and Windows powered mobile devices. Adding the same secured mobile email program to the iPhone would certainly elevate the iPhone into the ranks of business oriented smartphones.

And so now we wait for the exact date when this made for iPhone program will be launched. Sybase says it will be soon. In the 3G iPhone perhaps?

Via [I4U News]

If you can’t beat ‘em, develop for ‘em!  At the moment, that it what Research In Motion, producer of the BlackBerry, may be doing.  The company has seen falls in sales of elephantine proportions since the introduction of the iPhone, and they seem to be in a hole out of which they cannot be dug.  Some analysts even predict the iPhone to totally make the BlackBerry an after thought in the world of SmartPhones. 

With that in mind, RIM may be hedging their bets in terms of an BlackBerry fallout.  A recent company memo called for applicants for a special team, and although the exact memo is nowhere to be found, an unidentified RIM employee did leak the following to Electronista. 

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According to market analysts, the iPhone has ruined Palm’s smartphone bid and Research in Motion’s Blackberry is next to go.  An analyst for Needham & Co. reports that Palm has the hardest battle against the iPhone, pushing up hardest against their outdated OS and awkward UI.  Palm has seen decreasing user-ship even before the iPhone was released; the iPhone has only seemed to speed up their demise.  Although the numbers for RIM and their blackberry haven’t fallen too sharply yet, they are predicted to continue to slowly decline, perhaps picking up speed with the imminent release of the 3G iPhone.  The same firm predicts that the highly anticipated 3G iPhone will be the nail in the coffin for both companies.  Although the success, or possible lack there of, of Google’s Android Mobile OS may help sway the market in favor of Palm and RIM, it is unlikely.  Both Palm and RIM have been dug in too deep by the iPhone to see a sizable comeback in the near future. 

Are you sitting at home wondering how big/small the iPhone is in relation to some other gadgets you may be familiar with? Head over to this gallery, where we compare the size of the iPhone to the Blackberry 8830 and Apple 2nd generation iPod Nano.

Clearly the Nano is the smallest (and lightest) of the three, but given that the iPhone combines the Nano and the Blackberry its size isn’t to shabby (though a little heavier than we would have expected).

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