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SEATTLE—Nextel Partners Inc. reported an agreement with ViAir Inc. to provide Nextel Partners with its WirelessInbox messaging application and platform rebranded as Nextel Mobile E-mail. ViAir said the solution will …

NEW YORK—Vivendi Universal has deployed MyNetonomy , developed by U.S.-based Netonomy, as the portal through which customers can purchase, activate and personalize services on Universal Music Mobile (UMM). Launched commercially …

Osama bin Laden and his goons appear to be in retreat. For that alone we should give thanks, though no one will be satisfied until justice is brought to the …

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla.-TeleComputing has released its new Mobile Services Powered by TECOS, a hosted application solution that enables service providers to deploy services that offer PDA users secure access to …

RALEIGH, N.C.-Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications and MobileAria announced a partnership to promote in-vehicle Bluetooth adoption. MobileAria said it will support and market Sony Ericsson’s T39 and T68 GSM/GPRS phones, and …

SAN DIEGO-Microsoft Corp. selected Silicon Wave Inc. to provide Bluetooth solutions for its Windows CE .NET operating system. Silicon Wave said its solution will allow original equipment manufacturers to produce …

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla.—TeleComputing has released its new Mobile Services Powered by TECOS, a hosted application solution that enables service providers to deploy services that offer PDA users secure access to …

REDMOND, Wash.-Microsoft Corp. reported the Bluetooth Special Interest Group qualified the Bluetooth implementation in Windows CE .NET, the software giant’s next version of its Windows CE operating system, as compliant …

Audiovox Communications Audiovox Communications introduced the Maestro, a Pocket PC that uses Microsoft Windows Powered Pocket PC 2002 software. The product features 32 MB of SDRAM and 32 MB of …

NEW YORK-Vivendi Universal has worldwide ambitions, particularly in the area of wireless technology and interactive television, and equally important, it possesses a balance sheet to support its plans, said Jean …

SHANGHAI, China—Hewlett-Packard Company and Microsoft have announced plans to expand their software business in China and have decided to hire more staff for that purpose. HP said it will hire …

ATLANTA—Wireless platform provider Air2Web announced it will launch its Mobile Email Platform, which will provide wireless access to Lotus Domino and Microsoft Exchange applications, in November. The platform, which supports …

BEDMINSTER, N.J.—Verizon Wireless introduced its Mobile Web Plus service, a wireless e-mail and Internet access service for use on the Kyocera QCP6035 smartphone. The service provides access to up to …

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.—A broad spectrum of technology companies, including Cisco Systems Inc., Comverse Inc., Intel Corp., Microsoft Corp., Philips Speech Processing and SpeechWorks International Inc., have agreed to form a …

LONDON—Although European awareness of application service providers (ASPs) is growing, enterprises still seem cautious to implement the services, according to a recent Frost & Sullivan survey. Of the companies surveyed, …

LONDON—Although European awareness of application service providers is growing, enterprises still seem cautious to implement the services, according to a recent Frost & Sullivan survey. Of the companies surveyed, 74 …

OXFORD, United Kingdom—Having been formed with much fanfare in September 1999, the joint venture between Ericsson and Microsoft to co-develop mobile Internet software appears to have been less than a …

STOCKHOLM, Sweden—Stockholm-based Columbitech began a full-scale commercial launch 28 September in Europe of its wireless virtual private network (VPN) product, which allows mobile device users to access their corporate databases …

NEW YORK—Stockholm-based Columbitech began a full-scale commercial launch Sept. 28 in Europe of its wireless virtual private network product, which allows mobile device users to access their corporate databases quickly …

PALO ALTO, Calif.-Microsoft Corp. announced it plans to expand its Passport authentication service, which allows users to have a single user name or password to access any Web site, to …

VANCOUVER, British Columbia—Wireless software developer Veratium Software Ltd. has launched its Motivus Enterprise Server 2.3, which it said enables users to wirelessly access files and folders residing on desktop computers …

LONDON-U.K. mobile-phone maker Sendo announced it will use PacketVideo Corp.’s mobile multimedia player software as the streaming video application base for the company’s new Z100 GPRS smart phone. The Z100 …

LONDON—U.K. mobile-phone manufacturer Sendo announced it will use PacketVideo’s mobile multimedia player software as the streaming video application base for the company’s new Z100 General Packet Radio Service (GPRS) smart …

SEATTLE-Terabeam was chosen by Microsoft Corp. to connect the company to the Internet for its annual employee meeting, which took place at Safeco Field in Seattle in late August. Terabeam …

SAN DIEGO—Microsoft Corp. released details of its forthcoming Pocket PC operating system upgrade—which the company is marketing squarely at the business market—a move that ratchets up the OS battle with …