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Smartphones for Sysadmins

2 replies · 1,782 views · Started 11 April 2008

Smartphones may have evolved since the first Nokia Communicator, but
what made that phone such a success was the telnet client - system
admins could fix their IT infrastructure from anywhere. Smartphones
evolve, but managing your IT from teh handset is still a worthy goal,
as Simon Bisson finds out over at IT Pro.

Read on in the full article.

Little secret - there have been occasions in the past when BBC Interactive TV has been kept working and on air using a terminal emulator like Putty running on a mobile phone, down the pub after a beer or two. Yes, this is against policy of course 😊 but it happened and shows that this stuff can work in mission critical scenarios - and why not?

It's all fine and dandy but I would like to be able to use mouse when I use Remote Control systems (VNC, RDP, Citrix...)
Please tell me there'll be Bluetooth Mouse support in Nokia S60 Touch.