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To: Mehrdad Arya who wrote (35524)	10/15/1999 12:33:00 AM
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Australian Financial Review, 10/15/19 The World In The Palm Of Their Hands Helen Meredith Geneva 10/15/1999 Australian Financial Review Page 68 Copyright of John Fairfax Group Pty Ltd With product releases and contracts being rolled out in a seemingly endless stream as suppliers beat their chests at the four-yearly Telecom99 congress and exhibition in Geneva this week, the battle is on to capture the attention of an increasingly jaded audience. Nokia and Palm Computing succeeded by announcing they had teamed up to develop pen-based wireless devices. While the release of the first product from this new alliance is some way off, the strategy gives the two major players in the hand-held market an advantage in the race to integrate the functions customers use most. Nokia already has phones with keyboard input and communicators with keypads. Palm, a 3Com company, is a leader in pen-based products. The licensing agreement signed this week allows them to combine their technologies to provide consumers with the benefits of wireless telephony and data access, as well as a raft of personal and professional applications provided for Palm products. ``In the emerging mobile information society we anticipate strong demand for various categories of future wireless devices,' said Nokia's chairman and CEO, Mr Jorma Ollila. ``We intend to com-plement our range with products using a pen-based input.' Nokia will contribute wireless technologies, including wireless voice communications and telephony applications, emerging data protocols and IP-based wireless access to enterprise applications. The products will have the advantage of open technologies such as WAP (wireless access protocol) and Bluetooth, and will support Palm's web clipping technology for wireless access to internet and intranet content. Nokia has licensed the Palm Computing Operating System (Palm OS) so it can make use of the interface and applications to run on the Symbian platform: the devices this spawns will run both Palm and Symbian applications. Symbian, which is owned by Ericsson, Matsushita, Motorola, Nokia and Psion, promotes open standards for the interoperability of wireless information devices.