Did you want a PC on your iPhone?

It is pos­si­ble to use a Win­dows per­sonal com­puter on an iPhone. Of course, the com­puter isn’t inside the phone. WebEx, a Cisco com­pany that offers remote com­put­ing ser­vices, now sup­ports iPhone on its PCNow service.

That will let users search and retrieve files on a remote desk­top com­puter. The remote com­puter needs a LAN or broad­band con­nec­tion to the Inter­net, of course. Users can also edit, cre­ate, send, view and receive Out­look email, con­tacts and appointments.

As a bonus, WebEx con­nects iPhone users to Skype to allow VoIP tele­phone calls using an iPhone.

One nice ben­e­fit of this approach is that the WebEx iPhone client isn’t giv­ing the user direct access to the Win­dows desktop.

Of course, any­one who can get access to that iPhone and the user’s pass­words could get access to that remote PC. WebEx allows users to remotely con­nect one or two PCs to their iPhone for US$11.95 a month. For a small busi­ness, this might be a nice option.

Larger com­pa­nies may not want their employ­ees to breach the cor­po­rate fire­wall in this man­ner, though.

This ZDnet arti­cle has some addi­tional details.

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