BT and Microsoft Advance Mobile Portal Trials.British Telecommunications Plc and Microsoft Corp yesterday announced they have started rolling out their joint trial of a wireless internet portal based on Microsoft Exchange services. The service will be offered to 1,000 users at existing BT customers British Broadcasting Corp, Nortel Networks Corp, KPMG KPMG Klynveld Peat Marwick Goerdeler (accounting firm) KPMG Kaiser Permanente Medical Group KPMG Keiner Prüft Mehr Genau (German) KPMG Kommen Prüfen Meckern Gehen LLP, and Credit Suisse First Boston Credit Suisse First Boston was originally the trading name of the Financière Crédit Suisse-First Boston, a London-based 50-50 investment banking joint venture formed in 1978 between the First Boston Corporation and Credit Suisse. Corp. Users will be able to access facilities such as email, calendars, address books, and other information services, via a mobile phone. The system will be based on Exchange Server, built using Exchange, Windows NT Server with MS Internet Information Server See IIS. (World-Wide Web) Internet Information Server - (IIS) Microsoft's web server and FTP server for Windows NT. IIS is intended to meet the needs of a range of users: from workgroups and departments on a corporate intranet to ISPs hosting websites that receive . Mobile handsets will be manufactured by Samsung Electrontics Co Ltd and Sagem SA, using the OS-independent microbrowser Microsoft acquired with STNC STNC Security Teams Net Crew Ltd in July. |
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