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SOURCE: Wireless Internet & Mobile Computing
Wireless Internet & Mobile Computing Reports Investment in General Magic Is Just Start of Microsoft's Interest in Wireless Communications
CHEVY CHASE, Md., March 4 /PRNewswire/ -- Microsoft Corp.'s (Nasdaq: MSFT - news) investment in General Magic Inc. (Nasdaq: GMGC - news) is just the beginning of Microsoft's activities to integrate the Internet with wireless communications and to exploit the ''universal mailbox'' concept, says Alan A. Reiter, president of Wireless Internet & Mobile Computing, one of the world's leading firms analyzing the wireless Internet and ''smart'' device marketplace.
Wireless Internet & Mobile Computing reports that Microsoft is investigating a variety of strategies for increasing its role in mobile communications. Strategies include: enabling its LAN software to transmit information via wireless networks, using the Microsoft Network's Internet capabilities to facilitate wireless communications and placing versions of Windows CE into wireless products.
''When Bill Gates talks about 'information at your fingertips,' he's dead serious about the long-term strategic importance to Microsoft. Businesses that can help Microsoft achieve that goal -- such General Magic -- are under scrutiny,'' Reiter says.
Wireless Internet & Mobile Computing says to evaluate Microsoft's actions it's crucial to understand that the global mobile communications market is undergoing a dramatic transformation that involves creating ''smart,'' multi- function devices that will eventually replace today's ''dumb,'' single-purpose pagers and cellular phones.
''Microsoft will be working with and competing against a variety of large and small companies, such as Motorola (NYSE: MOT - news), Geoworks (Nasdaq: GWRX - news), Sun Microsystems (Nasdaq: SUNW - news) and Unwired Planet, that are racing to product bandwidth-efficient platforms and applications for new generations of devices,'' Reiter says.
Reiter has been anticipating mobile communications and mobile computing trends for 20 years. He helps jump-start innovative products and services through his advice to large and small corporations, through highly-targeted conferences and tutorials and through research reports and newsletters.
Reiter created the world's first wireless computing newsletter, wireless computing conference and cellular conference and helped launch the first cellular magazine. Reiter also co-developed the first conference on operating systems for wireless devices.
The company's $295/year e-mail publication, ''Wireless Internet & Mobile Computing,'' analyzes the integration of the Internet with wireless networks, the development of ''smart'' devices and the creation of Internet-based wireless products.
Brian H. |
