"New APIs in Apple’s latest iPhone operating system make possible a new experience for network administrators: the ability to inventory, secure, and manage the iPhone and iPod touch as enterprise devices and to do so for hundreds or thousands of them.
With Monday’s release of iOS 4, Apple provided hooks and on-board Mobile Device Management Service (MFMS) that, for the first time, let third-party device management applications access information directly on the iPhone 4, and exercise control over it...
The new iPhone management service exposed a great deal more information to Afaria’s asset tracking and management capabilities. Previously, this information was limited to bare bones, such as the installed version of the OS. Now, Afaria can collect the phone’s serial number, model number and name, firmware information and other data, such as the MAC address, the carrier network, the actual voice phone number, and whether data roaming is turned on or off."
