Still no sign of a new hardware version with 3 or 3.5G available which is still a bit of a problem/pain for some. However with the updates in software, most relevant to me is the MS Exchange ActiveSync for mobile push email and the Cisco VPN client.

Having just signed a new deal to port our work mobile phones over to O2, we have been given a free one. The other phones we are going for means that we are finally making the move from an Open Source email solution to a MS Exchange based system with blackberry BES system for the few users who will be getting blackberry handsets. So this means the odd one out – the iPhone, will eventually be able to mingle with the fold once again

However, I’ve been in Southampton since 23:20 yesterday after a lovely 4 hour drive from Manchester with the need to login into one of the company firewalls to check into a suspect customer, so after fixing an issue with my vpn connection (lack of split tunnel) by vpn connection to our DC, then over to the office to make a change to the firewall to allow split tunnel I disconnected and re-connected to the vpn account on our office firewall to start looking into the problem. Gotta hand it to to Swisscomm who manage the connection into this place, it’s been stable as anything and extremely quick!

Anyway, it’s night time for me now – my room mate is trying to sleep and I doubt what he needs is hearing my fingers clicking away on the keyboard all night and my face lit up by this lovely screen I’m looking at