iAnywhere describes M-Business Anywhere as a platform that can deliver Web-based content and applications to a wide variety of mobile devices rapidly and cost-effectively, with minimal recoding. Web developers can leverage existing skill sets and knowledge of open standards to develop and deploy fully interactive Web applications with sync-and-go or wireless capabilities, according to the company.

The package supports devices running Windows Mobile 2003.


M-Business Anywhere architecture
M-Business Anywhere powers iAnywhere's AvantGo free mobile Internet service that provides "rich, personalized mobile websites to PDAs and smartphones," according to the company.

New Features of M-Business Anywhere 6.0 include:

• Asian language localization -- supports double-byte content and applications and has localized clients for Japanese, Simplified Chinese, and Traditional Chinese.
  
  
• Web services customization -- a new SOAP API allows third party software developers to embed M-Business Anywhere in an application to quickly provide mobile extensions.
  
  
• Improved management
  • Automatic remote client upgrades
    
  • Simplified "tree-based" admin user interface
  
  
• Improved performance and security
  • On-device content password protection
    
  • Optimized server caching
    
  • XML incremental sync

The new version of M-Business Anywhere is available immediately in three versions:

• Web Edition Standard
  
• Web Edition Pro
  
• Application Edition

A free non-expiring developer edition is also available for download here, following registration.

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