Open Mobile for Macintosh Update
Tuesday, June 14th, 2011 Chris Witeck, Director Product Marketing
If you follow iPass you have probably seen the news about the recent Open Mobile for iOS release, and the latest Mobile Workforce Report trends.
These are great examples of iPass listening to our customers and staying on top of the latest mobility trends. With all of the Smartphone and Tablet hype out there, I’d like to draw attention to some of the other areas that iPass has been working on. Did you know that in the last three months we have provided two great updates to our Open Mobile client for Macintosh?
I know that for many of our customers, seeing a user with an IT provided, or IT “blessed” Macintosh laptop is an increasingly common sight. The Open Mobile client for Macintosh provides our enterprise customers and partners with hassle-free connectivity for those Mac users, making getting onto the internet or corporate network simple and consistent- regardless if you are at work, at home, or on the go.
The Open Mobile client for Macintosh v1.1 release (available April 2011) provided a new look and feel, more in line with common designs used on the Macintosh. Additionally, Open Mobile for Macintosh added support for the free iPass OpenAccess network, meaning you can now use the Open Mobile client for Macintosh to automatically log into Wi-Fi hotspots that incur no usage fees, and also at the same time bypass those annoying ‘Terms and Condition’ pages common at many of those free networks.
The ‘Smart Network Selection’ capabilities used by Open Mobile for Windows to determine how available Wi-Fi and Mobile Broadband networks are displayed to users (e.g. the ability to specify if networks are displayed based on things like ‘signal strength’, or ‘previously used’, or ‘prefer Wi-Fi over Mobile Broadband) is also now available for the Open Mobile client for Macintosh.
The Open Mobile client for Macintosh v1.2 release (available June 2011) provided our customers with the ability to customize the look and feel of the Open Mobile client so that it matches their corporate standards. It also added in several great UI features, providing administrator defined support for displaying RSS feeds and launching applications directly from the Open Mobile client.
And something that is very popular with our Open Mobile for Windows users — Open Mobile for Macintosh now offers VPN support, allowing administrators to specify VPN policies that will auto-launch the VPN when using Open Mobile, as well as monitor and tear down VPN connections.
When you add all of this together, you see some great new capabilities being added in for Open Mobile for Macintosh. This is reflective of the types of requests we get from our customers – both the administrators who manage Open Mobile for their organization, and the growing number of Mac users who also use our product.
Tags: Apple, Macintosh
