by Jon Brodkin, ars technica
AT&T’s Toggle lets users switch between the work and personal parts of their smartphones. AT&T AT&T says it has the answer for corporations that want to let employees access work applications from personal phones without becoming a security threat. A new virtualization-style technology that works on both Android and iPhones creates a work container that is isolated from an employee’s personal applications and data, letting IT shops manage just the portion of the phone related to work. This isn’t a new idea. ARM is talking about adding virtualization into the smartphone chip layer. VMware has been promising to virtualize smartphones for some time. What is notable about AT&T’s technology is its flexibility. VMware’s technology hasn’t hit end users yet, largely because it must be pre-installed by phone manufacturers, limiting it to carriers and device makers that want to install it on their hardware.
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