Palm webOS gains enterprise features

From InfoWorld: Palm has released a webOS update for the Pre smartphone that features expanded support for Exchange Active Sync policies, a change aimed at enterprise users.

Version 1.1 also tweaks the way webOS works with Facebook and Google contacts, notifies you when you receive a communication in any medium from someone in your contacts list, and adds a new gesture to move quickly forward through open Web pages.

The release notes also rather coyly mentions that the new code "resolves an issue preventing media sync from working with latest version of iTunes (8.2.1)." The new iTunes had itself resolved the issue of being unable to distinguish between Pre and iPhone devices, and blocked Pre owners from synching with iTunes. Presumably, Palm has instituted a new hack to make this possible again, at least until Apple's next iTunes release.

The changes come just days after Palm made the webOS Mojo software development kit generally available, much sooner than previously thought. One key question is whether developers will embrace a dramatically simpler development environment, based on Web standards and technologies, to quickly build a range of sophisticated applications for the Pre, such as FlightView, developed by Agile Commerce.

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