Peanut butter and chocolate. Chicken and waffles. Apple and Unisys. These two companies couldn’t be much less alike. Which is why it might just make perfect sense for them to come together. Apple makes glamorous gadgets. Unisys, by contrast, is all about the nit-and-grit of government and business.
Now Bloomberg reports the two are working together:
Unisys will provide maintenance and other services to companies and government agencies that purchase Apple devices, Gene Zapfel, a managing partner at Unisys, said in an interview. One of the first of its kind for Apple, the contract was signed this month, Zapfel said. He didn’t discuss terms of the deal.
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Even before the partnership, Unisys had begun creating iPhone applications for government clients. One app is used by U.S. Department of Homeland Security border patrol agents, Zapfel said. It lets managers check the status of border- crossing technology, such as cameras from their iPhones.
As part of its arrangement with Apple, Unisys expects to build applications for other government agencies, he said.
Are you ready for the local cop to start toting an iPad?
[via Bloomberg]
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