Apple's iPhone has been given the thumbs down by a New Zealand major health network.

A group of Auckland doctors have been told they can't connect their iPhones to one of the city's major health IT networks. Phil Brimacombe, healthAlliance's chief information officer, says the organisation receives regular requests from doctors wanting to connect iPhones to its IT systems.

However he said that there was huge security risk and the possibility of introducing viruses to the network. Symantec's annual Australasian user conference, held in Sydney this week was told that companies were being flooded by requests from staff to plug their iPhones into corporate networks. 

Apparently this is because Steve Jobs and has merry band of Apple fanboys have convinced them that the gadgets are perfectly safe and cannot be contaminated by viruses. In fact, like most internet devices, the iPhone is a security accident waiting to happen.

Craig Scroggie, Symantec's Pacific region managing director, said that younger workers were storing work data on their iPhones even if their company had a policy prohibiting them from doing so.

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