LAUNCH OF ERICSSON MICROSOFT MOBILE VENTURE AB.Ericsson (NASDAQ NASDAQ in full National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations U.S. market for over-the-counter securities. Established in 1971 by the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD), NASDAQ is an automated quotation system that reports on :ERICY) and Microsoft today launched Ericsson Microsoft Mobile Venture AB. This previously announced joint company will drive the mobile Internet Refers to gaining access to the Internet using a lightweight, handheld device. See Mobile IP, PDA, smartphone and mobile TV. by developing and marketing mobile e-mail solutions for operators. The first solutions will be on the market by the end of the year. The company is part of a broader strategic alliance between Ericsson and Microsoft. Preparations for the joint company have been ongoing for the past months. A management team is now in place, recruitment has begun, and operations are running. Further, the EU Commission has reported that the formation of the joint company will not be subject to EC merger review filing, which means that the legal entity can be formed. Ericsson Microsoft Mobile Venture AB is headquartered in Stockholm, Sweden, and will have regional centers around the world. Ulf Avrin from Ericsson is president of the company. Ericsson and Microsoft will hold 70 and 30 percent share in the company respectively. The company will develop solutions, based on Ericsson's and Microsoft's products that enable mobile operators to offer easy-to-use and secure mobile e-mail to both corporate and consumer customers. The solutions will also include calendar, to-do lists and other personal information management tools, and will provide professional users with full mobile access to corporate data. The first solutions are expected to be commercially available for mobile operators by the end of 2000. The solutions will integrate Microsoft Windows See Windows. (operating system) Microsoft Windows - Microsoft's proprietary window system and user interface software released in 1985 to run on top of MS-DOS. Widely criticised for being too slow (hence "Windoze", "Microsloth Windows") on the machines available then. 2000 Server and Microsoft Exchange Messaging and groupware software for Windows from Microsoft. Exchange Server is an Internet-compliant e-mail system that runs under Windows NT/2000 and Windows Server 2003. It can be accessed by Web browsers, the Exchange client, versions of Outlook and the earlier Windows Inbox. platforms with Ericsson's infrastructure and mobile Internet technologies. The company will provide solutions for mobile operators' existing networks. Ericsson and Microsoft will sell the solutions to operators worldwide, which gives the Mobile Venture a strong global customer reach. Ericsson and Microsoft are already cooperating with some of the largest mobile operators in Europe. Ericsson estimates that mobile phones and other mobile devices will surpass consumer PCs as the main Internet tool by 2003, and that the number of mobile Internet subscribers will reach 1 billion by 2005. Today, e-mail is one of the most important Internet applications, with more than 435 million e-mail boxes in use (source: Messaging Online Inc.). Ericsson Microsoft Mobile Venture AB is a major step in the strategic alliance between Ericsson and Microsoft. The alliance also includes cooperation on the use of the Microsoft Mobile Explorer browser browser Software that allows a computer user to find and view information on the Internet. The first text-based browser for the World Wide Web became available in 1991; Web use expanded rapidly after the release in 1993 of a browser called Mosaic, which used for Ericsson's feature phones, licensing of Ericsson's WAP (1) (Wireless Access Point) See access point. (2) (Wireless Application Protocol) A standard for providing cellular phones, pagers and other handheld devices with secure access to e-mail and text-based Web pages. technology for use in Microsoft's solutions, and distribution of Microsoft Outlook For the e-mail and news client bundled with certain versions of Microsoft Windows, see . Microsoft Outlook or Outlook (full name Microsoft Office Outlook together with applicable Ericsson phones. As part of the cooperation, the two companies also work jointly to support open standards Specifications for hardware and software that are developed by a standards organization or a consortium involved in supporting a standard. Available to the public for developing compliant products, open standards imply "open systems;" that an existing component in a system can be replaced and new technologies such as Bluetooth, WAP and UpnP (Universal Plug & Play). |
|
||||||||||||||||||||
Printer friendly
Cite/link
Email
Feedback
Reader Opinion