<A HREF="http://www.smartphonethoughts.com/index.php?action=expand,14845">Good Mobile Messaging 5.0,</A> is a best-of-both-worlds tool that "gives IT everything they could ever want" in terms of centrally controlling any policy over remote devices, while "not impairing users' ability to get stuff done on the smartphone." To a large degree that means managing applications. The new software allows IT departments to require all devices to use mandatory applications, such as virus-protection software, and to ban the launch of blacklisted applications not meeting company guidelines. Good 5 also allows advanced password and encryption management and the temporary lockdown of possibly compromised devices--rather than a complete shutdown and erase requiring the full reinstalling of software if the device is recovered.