iPhone, Android get RIM enterprise support

security architecture, according to the Financial Post.

RIM revealed it plans to unveil a new technology that would allow corporations to incorporate devices running on Apple's iOS and Google's Android software into their existing BlackBerry architecture.

The new technology - BlackBerry Enterprise Solution - will allow RIM's business clients to use elements of the company's BlackBerry Enterprise Server and BlackBerry Enterprise Server Express to secure iOS and Android devices and tablets through a Web-based console.

Meanwhile, Digital Daily says this is a savvy bit of strategy from RIM, which is clearly looking to stem attrition in the corporate market.

By allowing enterprise clients to roll devices running iOS and Android software into their existing BlackBerry architecture, it's reasserting itself as a mobile device management services provider, even as its own devices lessen in popularity.

RIM has previously described this separation of personal and business-related content as an effective means of allowing IT managers to easily strip off corporate content from the smart phone if the employee departs the company, leaving all the personal photos and music intact for the user to keep, reveals IT World Canada.