iPhone tethering could prove a boon to IT managers
Of some 100 new features added to Apple Inc.'s iPhone 3.0 software this week, Jorge Mata, CIO for the Los Angeles Community College District, said that one of those alone -- the ability to tether Windows laptops to the iPhone -- could provide a quick boost his operation.
Mata said the updated software, which shipped to upbeat users this week, should give the 200 iPhone users on the college's staff the ability to transform the device into a modem, which could replace $60-a-month air cards now installed on the laptop computers of those users.
"The most compelling enterprise feature [in iPhone 3.0] is the tethering capability," Mata said in an e-mail to Computerworld. "This would replace the need to issue mobile broadband cards to our phone users."
