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New HTML5-Based Platform Offers Most Accessible and Intuitive User Interface, While Highlighting AirWatch’s Continued Technology Leadership and Innovation

September 08, 2011 10:54 AM Eastern Daylight Time 

ATLANTA–(EON: Enhanced Online News)–AirWatch, a global leader and innovator in mobile security, mobile device management (MDM) and mobile application management (MAM), today announced the release of the industry’s first HTML5-based MDM platform, providing AirWatch’s management console users with a more powerful, faster and efficient end-user experience.

“AirWatch has developed a consistent pattern of technology innovation. Upgrading AirWatch to HTML5 allows us to further ensure the user experience is more productive, meaningful and efficient”

By leveraging HTML5, AirWatch’s management console is now even more accessible from any web-connected device, regardless of the platform or operating system. this expanded accessibility is especially important for the growing number of iPad and tablet users. IT managers can quickly and effectively manage all aspects of their mobile fleet from their own mobile device. With HTML5, AirWatch offers an enterprise-grade solution based on widely adopted industry standards. AirWatch fully supports all major browsers including Internet Explorer, Safari, Firefox and Chrome. HTML5 is fully integrated into the management console, user self-service portal and application catalog modules.

“AirWatch has developed a consistent pattern of technology innovation. Upgrading AirWatch to HTML5 allows us to further ensure the user experience is more productive, meaningful and efficient,” said John Marshall, CEO, AirWatch. “This new release is further evidence of our continued commitment to providing the industry’s most innovative MDM and mobile security technology.”

AirWatch helps organizations across a wide variety of industries deploy, secure, monitor, manage and support all their mobile assets. With AirWatch, corporate IT departments can streamline and automate the management and support of all corporate and employee-liable mobile devices; reduce the cost and effort of device deployments; and increase IT efficiencies and response times. AirWatch’s innovative solution includes full support for Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) integration and certificate management, directory services, smart-card and token based enrollment, the broadest email platform support including BPOS-D and Outlook 365, as well as full multi-tenancy. AirWatch also offers the industry’s most scalable and flexible deployment options with Software as a Service (SaaS), appliance or on premise solutions.

About AirWatch

AirWatch is a global provider and innovator of enterprise-grade smartphone security and mobile device management solutions. Positioned in the Leaders quadrant of Gartner, inc.’s Magic Quadrant for Mobile Device Management Software 2011, AirWatch helps to secure, monitor, manage and support an enterprise’s entire fleet of Android, Apple’s iOS, BlackBerry, Windows Mobile, Windows 7 and Symbian devices. An award-winning company, AirWatch has more than 1,500 customers in the education, financial services, retail, healthcare, government, transportation, distribution, field services, hospitality and manufacturing industries. For more information, please visit air-watch.com.

© 2011 AirWatch LLC. all rights reserved. AirWatch™ and the AirWatch logo are trademarks of AirWatch, LLC. Android is a trademark of Google inc. Apple and iOS are trademarks of Apple inc. Blackberry is a trademark of Research In Motion Limited. Symbian is a trademark of Nokia. Windows Mobile and Windows 7 are trademarks of Microsoft. all other brands and trademarks mentioned in this press release are the property of their respective owners.

How do I display Network info on a HP-UX Server

I am trying to find the UNIX equivalent of the DOS Commands – Route Print – Tracert – ipconfig

I am running on Mac OS X 10.3.9 and my new ipod is telling me I have to be on Mac OS X 10.4.8 or better. I have the latest version of iTunes so that is not the problem. what I'm wondering is if anybody knows where I can get conversion software to load my songs onto my iPod so I don't have to buy the newer operating system?

The new iPod only works with OS X 10.4 or newer.
apple.com/ipodtouch/specs.htm…
Mac system requirements

* Mac computer with USB 2.0 port
* Mac OS X v10.4.10 or later
* iTunes 7.4 or later

Although Apple "may" possibly change this … or they may not – they don't tend to do legacy support.
Panther is now 4 years old – Released Oct 24th 2003 – That's OLD!

If you use the Linux operating system (Ubuntu, Fedora, OpenSUSE, etc), would you use it to print coupons if it were easy to do so? Do you currently switch to Windows or Mac in order to print coupons?

I'm curious if others like me who primarily use Linux would want to print grocery coupons from sites like SmartSource, Coupons.com, RedPlum, and e-centives.com which do not officially support printing in Linux.

When choosing a laptop, you generally have to pick between either Microsoft or Apple’s platforms. But Google is about to lob a new operating system into the mix – Chrome OS. the software will hit the shelves in June, loaded onto specially constructed Chromebook laptops.

Chromebooks will provide a deliberately simplistic computing experience. Devoid of any physical storage, all applications and user data will be stored in the cloud, on Google’s servers.

We’ve taken Chrome OS for a spin, so read on to find out exactly what this cloud-based operating system is all about. Note that our Chromebook, the CR-48, is being given away to developers by Google, and won’t actually be going on sale, so we haven’t put it through our usual usability tests.

A much-touted feature of Chromebooks is that they will offer extremely rapid start-up times. This is because they don’t run a traditional operating system — it’s more like having Google’s Chrome browser as the only program you can run.

Once you’ve powered your Chromebook up, you’ll need to select your user profile and whack in your Gmail password.

We were really impressed by the start-up times on our prototype machine. It took 9 seconds to get to the user sign-in page once we hit the power button. if you put your Chromebook on standby by closing the lid, it’ll snap back to life almost instantly once you open the lid again.

Another probable benefit of the lightweight Chrome OS is that battery life will be very good. Actual battery-life figures will vary with different Chromebooks, though.

So what does Chrome OS actually do? well, it’s really just a slightly mutated version of Google’s Chrome Web browser.

Once you’ve turned the Chromebook on, you get a user-selection screen. To sign into the laptop, you’ll need to enter your password for your Gmail account. This means you can’t even sign into Chrome OS without an Internet connection, unless you want to browse using the ‘guest’ profile, which won’t have your bookmarks and preferences saved.

Once you’re signed in, the realisation of quite how pared-down this OS is will hit you like a tonne of bricks. There’s no desktop, no media player and no hard drive. You can’t even install programs. It’s just a browser with a few extra bits and pieces bolted on.

The tabbed browser is just as simple and intuitive as Chrome on other platforms — the URL bar also functions as a Google search bar, and tabs along the top don’t take up much space. we love the Chrome browsing experience, and all of that is replicated here, including Flash support, so you can head straight to YouTube and start watching videos of cats falling into boxes. Google Maps works brilliantly, and Google Docs is every bit as useful as it is when running in Chrome on Windows or Mac OS.

The only obvious aesthetic difference is that, in the top right-hand corner, there’s a clock, wireless-connection status icon and a battery meter. if you’re used to Windows, think of this segment of the browser as the system tray.

There’s one feature of Chrome that’s doesn’t make an appearance in Chrome OS — the ability to drag tabs to the far left or right of the browser, and thereby open them in a new window. It’s a shame because it means that, if you have stuff you want to copy from one tab into another, you can’t just open two windows and keep them side by side — you have to keep switching between the tabs instead.

You can’t install programs on Chrome OS, but you can install apps from the Chrome Web Store. These are basically browser extensions, but there are some useful ones to be found. And there’s Angry Birds too.

Google will be hoping that more developers start creating apps for Chrome OS, but whether developers take to the platform will depend very much on how popular it is when it first launches.

We weren’t all that impressed by Chrome OS, and it wasn’t long before we became painfully aware of the limitations of a system that uses a Web-based OS. For instance, we wanted to take screenshots of our browsing sessions, but there was no print-screen button on our Chromebook. Instead, we had to install an extension called Aviary, which lets you take screenshots within Chrome.

You can visit the Chrome Web Store if you want to install apps, such as everyone’s favourite waste of time, Angry Birds.

But, because there’s no desktop, we weren’t able to save our screenshots anywhere. Luckily, Aviary will let you host your screenshots online, so we could then copy the URLs of our screenshots, paste them into an email and open them on a PC running Windows, before we loaded them into this story. Talk about a faff.

If your Web connection goes down, Chrome OS is about as useful as a chocolate fireguard. Abandon any plans of doing some quick work on a plane or train, or anywhere that doesn’t offer a steady, reliable Internet connection.

Plenty of actions we take for granted proved surprisingly tricky. Chrome OS recognises USB sticks, and opens a crude file explorer in a new tab, but many types of file just won’t open, and you can’t copy, drag or otherwise move files from one location or storage device to another. It’s all very frustrating.

All of this makes us wonder — why buy a Chromebook? Chrome OS isn’t a bad idea, but the free, multi-platform Chrome browser can do all the same things already, and, if you have it installed on a PC or Mac, you can do loads of other things offline, play all sorts of media files and, well, have an actual computer, instead of a Web browser.

The first Chromebooks are going to cost around £350 to £400, for which you could buy a passable budget laptop or netbook. Essentially, then, you’re paying for the speedy start-up and overall simplicity. We’re not convinced it’s worth it — yet.

Cloud computing is probably the future, but we’re not sure the world’s ready for Chromebooks and Chrome OS. Everything will hinge on whether Google can make Chromebooks more affordable, and make the general public — and app developers — aware of exactly why the platform is worth bothering with.

Edited by Charles Kloet 

Bypass the iPhone learning curve with this quick tutorial.it’s easy to get overwhelmed with a flood of new terminology when learning a new topic, especially when it comes to computers and hacking. The iPhone has an unusually steep learning curve. This hack will quickly get you “talking the talk” so you can get past the n00b (“newbie”) phase quickly and make sense of the online discussions.

The iPhone Cellular StandardApple’s iPhone was originally released in the United States exclusively on the AT&T network. there are a number of different cellular phone standards, but the technology in widest use around the world and standard in europe is called GSM (global System for Mobile communications). GSM describes the technology for providing voice services, but the GSM system includes several levels of wireless data service as well. GPRS (general Packet radio Service) is the slowest of these protocols, providing speeds up to 40kbps similar to a dial-up modem. EDGE (enhanced Data rates for GSM evolution) is a data transmission protocol capable of speeds up to 180kbps, with a theoretical maximum of 230kbps, like the now painfully slow broadband internet from the late ’90s. generally, this speed makes EDGE a 2.5G (between second- and third-generation) wireless protocol, as contrasted with the 3G phones, which use HSDPA (high-Speed Downlink Packet access, the fastest current data standard used with GSM networks), which is comparable to a slow DSL connection. GSM phones are characterized by their use of a SIM (Subscriber identity Module) card, and the ability for users to switch phones by simply moving a SiM card from one phone to another (figure “The iPhone’s SIM card on its tray”). once Apple’s exclusive contract with AT&T has run out, they may create an iPhone that runs on other mobile standards such as the CDMA (code Division Multiple access) and EVDO (evolution-Data optimized) standards used by Verizon and Sprint in the United States.

iPhone ApplicationsThe iPhone runs an embedded (for a device, not a computer) form of Mac OS X for its system software, a thinned down version of the same code that runs on Macintosh computers. Native applications are programs that are installed on the iPhone, as opposed to web applications, or iPhone optimized web pages, that run in the Mobile safari web browser, using technologies such as AJAX (asynchronous Javascript and XML), and which require a working internet connection to operate. The many built-in applications on the iPhone, such as calendar, photos, YouTube, and safari, are native applications; there are also native third-party applications. The applications on the iPhone are all launched by SpringBoard, an application that controls the home screen. Figure “a number of installed third-party native applications on a jailbroken phone” shows a jailbroken (hacked to be freed from restrictions) phone with some third-party apps.

The iPhone’s Unix HeritageUnix is a cross-platform, multiuser, server operating system with a long history. it was first developed at AT&T in 1969. it was one of the first open source operating systems. it has heavily influenced every operating system since then. over the last 40 years, it has split into a large family tree with dozens of competing versions and several prominent clones, such as Linux. it has long been a programmer’s operating system (OS) as well as the ancestral home of computer hackers. Unix and Unix-like servers such as Linux represent a substantial portion of the servers on the internet. Mac OS X is a Unix operating system.

one of the interesting things about the iPhone and an interesting full circle for AT&T is that upwards of 10 million people are now running a Unix-based operating system on their iPhone.

Chroot, Jails, and JailbreakingAs we just mentioned, Unix is a multiuser system. different accounts (login names) can be given different privileges. for instance, the superuser administrator named root can change any file on the system. The iPhone normally runs applications as a user named mobile, who has more limited access.

The word “root” in Unix systems is also used to describe the top of a hard drive hierarchy, in which the uppermost folder is the “root” directory (like the root of a plant or tree). if you see the slash symbol (/), this signifies the root of the hard drive.

One method of enforcing security on Unix systems is called chroot(). normally, any user on Unix can potentially see the whole hard drive. what chroot() does is change the root directory so that  a user can access only his or her own home directory. for instance, if Joe’s home directory is  /Users/joe, chroot makes it so that / points to /Users/joe on the hard drive. now Joe can’t access parts of the system that he shouldn’t. this security measure puts Joe in what is called a chroot() jail.

The term jail has come to encompass any metaphorical padded cell or “jail” that restricts access to certain directories and limits which programs can be run.

On the iPhone, the flash drive has two partitions—about 300 megabytes (MB) for the OS (operating system) and applications (partition /dev/disk0s1), and the rest of the phone’s total storage for user data such as pictures, music, and movies (partition /dev/disk0s2). as shipped, there are two major restrictions: the user can’t write to the oS partition, and the iPhone won’t run (execute) any programs stored on the data partition. if you install an App Store application, it can run because it is stored on the oS partition.

On the iPhone, the process of jailbreaking removes both of these restrictions. by changing the file /etc/fstab, you:

•  Make the OS partition writable•  Enable execution of programs on the data partition

The iPhone ships with many software and hardware security features to ensure that it is not easily cracked by malicious interlopers, and to create a chain of accountability so that an insidious or destructive program can be traced to its creator if it does manage to get onto the phone. Because of this thick layer of security, it is necessary to jailbreak the iPhone to install programs and access features that aren’t available through the App Store.

Most software for jailbreaking adds package management for installing new applications directly to the device. Jailbreaking adds a wide variety of common Unix/Linux tools, including Secure Shell (SSH), so that you can connect to your iPhone with a terminal program and configure it.

Significantly, because a jailbroken iPhone is a full-featured unix server, just about every major internet service and development technology MySQL, apache web servers, PhP, Python, Perl, Ruby, and Java, to name just a few—are available for the iPhone. that means that porting existing code—especially open source code—to the iPhone is trivially easy. thus, many of the hacks in this book depend on jailbreaking the phone.

The SDK and The App StoreIn february 2008, apple announced a Software Development Kit (SDK), allowing the creation of third-party applications that could be installed on the phone. for the eight months prior to that date, creating native iPhone applications required a reverse-engineered development environment commonly referred to as the toolchain (a set of software tools used to create new applications). this is because SDk applications run in a sandbox (another word for “jail”) that limits their ability to do harm, but also limits their ability to do good. thus, there are SDK applications (developed with Apple’s Mac-based development tools, sold in Apple’s App Store, and complying with Apple’s restrictions and distribution policies), and toolchain applications, developed using these reverse engineered software development kits. toolchain apps can use any feature on the phone that is available. in contrast, the SDk is limited to the features that apple has exposed in its SDk. for instance, an SDk application cannot take pictures without the user’s permission, and cannot dial a phone number or send a text message without the user being notified, and generally cannot keep running in the background when the user switches to another program. Toolchain applications have none of these restrictions. for extensive information on programming toolchain applications, see iPhone Open Application Development, 2nd edition (o’Reilly, 2008) by Jonathan Zdziarski.

UnlockingUnderstanding the various methods of hacking the iPhone depends on an understanding of its different parts. as mentioned earlier, the iPhone is very similar to a conventional desktop pc, with computing power easily comparable to systems from the late 1990s. its main cpU runs around 400Mhz, and it has a screen, an onscreen virtual keyboard, a touch screen that functions as a mouse, and 4GB or more of flash storage for its filesystem (file storage). it runs an operating system—which is actually Mac OS X. unlike most personal computers, however, the iPhone has two “brains”—one is the aRM processor (aRM11 specifically), the cpU that runs the Mac OS X system software and the GUI (graphical user interface), and the other is a chip that handles communication with the cellular network, called the baseband chip (an infineon GSM processor).

Every mobile phone in the market has a baseband chip. on most phones (non-“smart” phones) this baseband chip is the only processor for the phone. This chip contains a simple central processing unit, as well as a wireless modem, and is responsible for all GSM/EDGE/HSDPA cellular communication. Jailbreaking an iPhone hacks only the Mac OS X that runs on the aRM processor. The iPhone’s baseband chip is a “second brain” that must be reprogrammed—often against its will—if you want to unlock the phone.

some people wonder why the phone chip is called a “baseband.” The name is related to the more familiar term broadband, which describes a wired or wireless transmission carrying many different channels (bands or frequencies), such as a cable modem connection shared by everyone in a given neighborhood. by contrast, baseband is when a wired or wireless transmission has one base (low) band that transmits only one signal, such as a single wireless phone call.

One of the most popular terms that you will run into in hacking the iPhone is bricking, which means rendering your iPhone as useless as a brick because of hacking gone awry. example: “oh, no! i think i bricked my iPhone trying to unlock it.” To be precise, bricking should describe a state that is permanent and irreversible, but the iPhone community often uses this term loosely for a temporary state that is relatively easy to reverse. and some users have even had “hard” (seemingly permanently) bricked phones come back to life with later iPhone firmware—new versions of apple’s firmware resurrected a lot of previously “bricked” phones. Typically, there are many options (such as forcing a full restore on your iPhone) that can fix the many seemingly incurable ills of carelessly hacked phones. Hardware hacking creates the highest risk of bricking phones. next to that, trying to do a siM unlock (modifying the phone to use a different mobile carrier than it was designed to use) is the most fruitful source of bricks. easy-to-use one-click SIM unlocking applications became popular because they ran a lower risk of bricking an iPhone for novice users.

iPhone OS and Firmware Whereas pcs run software, the preferred term for embedded software—that is, software that runs on devices instead of computers—is firmware. when used in iPhone-speak, “firmware” is used loosely to describe each successive version (1.1.1, 1.1.2, 1.1.3, 1.1.4, 2.0, 2.1, 3.0, and so on) of new software for the iPhone. these files usually come in the form of an IPSW (iPhone software) file, such as iPhone1,1_2.0_5A347_Custom_Restore.ipsw. these files usually contain an update for Mac OS X as well as the baseband firmware, the software that runs the modem, which is independent of the version of system software on the phone. The baseband firmware is essential for the proper functioning of EDGE, HSDPA, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, and phone calls. when you activate an iPhone for the first time in itunes, or when you unlock the phone for use on any GSM service provider, you are modifying the baseband firmware.

Just like a conventional computer has a BIOS (which is in control of the computer before Windows, Linux, or Mac OS X is loaded, and is built into the hardware of the machine), the iPhone has a bootloader, or bit of software that runs before the operating system and determines which software to use during bootup. in fact, the iPhone has two of them. the main cPu has a bootloader called iBoot, also known as the recovery bootloader. this software tries to load the system software. if it cannot, or if the phone is in recovery mode, then it asks to be connected to itunes. the baseband bootloader is the software that runs on the baseband and loads the baseband firmware. figure “the various parts of the iPhone’s operating software” shows the different operating software on the iPhone.

OOB or OOTB means out-of-box or out-of-the-box; it describes a phone that is brand new, not activated, jailbroken, unlocked, or otherwise molested. the term is used to describe models of phones that ship with particular software version. for instance, “ooB 1.1.2” phones shipped with a baseband bootloader (Version 4.6) that was more resistive to baseband firmware updates than earlier versions. Thus, some earlier phones were coveted because of their flexibility in downgrading and upgrading to different system versions and unlocking.

Apple’s iTunes program frequently prompts users to upgrade their phone to the latest software. Upgrading your iPhone upgrades the software to Apple’s current version but keeps the user data (leaving the user partition of the flash drive intact), whereas restoring your iPhone’s software erases user data and reinstalls the system software. however, restoring does not reset any baseband (firmware) alterations. Virginizing your iPhone puts it in the exact same software state that it was in when you bought it, including resetting your baseband firmware back to factory settings by relocking it. Virginizing is a prudent choice for those returning their phones under warranty, as phones that are serviced in a hacked state may be denied warranty service.