(Fortune) -- As anticipated, Apple announced a series of software developments Thursday to make the iPhone more useful to business customers while venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers said it is starting a $100 million "iFund" to finance startups developing applications for the iPhone.
Speaking at the company's town hall session in Cupertino, Calif., CEO Steve Jobs took direct aim at smartphone rival Research in Motion (RIMM) with the introduction of a plan to have the iPhone sync with office desktops.
The plan, according to iPhone enterprise chief Phil Schiller, is to license software that allows the device to work on Microsoft's Exchange platform for so-called push email as well as calendar and contact syncing.
Schiller explained that the business-user targeted iPhone will have network and information security features similar to BlackBerry devices in conjunction with Cisco (CSCO, Fortune 500). This would allow users and IT departments to perform similar functions that the BlackBerry does like swiping clean the devices if they are lost or stolen.
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