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To: ynot who wrote (5552)	10/12/1999 9:38:00 AM
From: elmatador	Respond to of 12823

Agreed. It is going to 'percolate' into wired telephony as well. "...Both these trends are going to push voice service enhancement out of the ?IP convergence? arena into the feature differentiation arena. That doesn?t necessarily mean that IP won?t be a play at all in voice, but rather that the value of VoIP will be not as a better transport option for voice but as the basis for a better feature platform. If most really good voice-feature-driven new-gen voice (NGV) players offer a variety of transport options (which we think they will), then VoIP is a side show. Our subscribers know already that we believe the feature drive in NGV will be based on XML definition of cooperative service relationships and feature logic, with Java playing a role in defining specific behaviors of devices. There will be a number of announcements from new startups in this area during September and October. A major vendor in the voice space will also be adopting a flexible feature architecture in this same time period..." SOURCE: cimicorp.com

To: ynot who wrote (5552)	10/14/1999 11:02:00 AM
From: elmatador	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 12823

Palm, Symbian team up NANCY GOHRING Microsoft will now have a more formidable competitor when it enters the wireless phone operating system world. Palm Computing today said it will cross-license its technology with Symbian, the operating system software company owned by Ericsson, Matsushita, Motorola, Nokia and Psion. The companies are expected to begin developing platforms for smart phones that combine Palm?s well-known user interface with Symbian?s operating system. Nokia has already stepped forward as the first customer for such a platform. ?This future cooperation offers Palm the ability to provide comprehensive solutions to our licensees in the wireless area," said Alan Kessler, president of Palm Computing, in a released statement. The companies have formally announced only that they are in discussions toward a more definitive agreement. The announcement is significant because the companies have been competitors. In addition, the deal means that the two companies can combine their strengths to compete against Microsoft, which has said that it will scale down its Windows CE product for use in wireless handsets. Such a relationship may represent the type of initiative that Palm has been unable to pursue under the umbrella of its parent company, 3Com. 3Com recently announced that it will spin off Palm into a separate company. Qualcomm has licensed the Palm user interface for its PDQ phone, which has experienced very limited success. For questions or comments, contact Web Editor Karen Murphy msblues@earthlink.net . Please report any problems with this site to: Webmaster@internettelephony.com.