Silicon Investor (SI) -- The First Internet Community

STOCKTALK

We've detected that you're using an ad content blocking browser plug-in or feature. Ads provide a critical source of revenue to the continued operation of Silicon Investor. We ask that you disable ad blocking while on Silicon Investor in the best interests of our community. If you are not using an ad blocker but are still receiving this message, make sure your browser's tracking protection is set to the 'standard' level.

Technology Stocks : 3Com Corporation (COMS) -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Mehrdad Arya who wrote (35525)	10/15/1999 12:45:00 AM
From: Mehrdad Arya	Respond to of 45548

Handhelds and Mobile Phones Buddy Up Nokia joins Palm to produce pen-driven wireless devices. by Rob Garretson, IDG News Service October 13, 1999, 11:22 a.m. PT Your mobile phone and your palm computer could soon become one. Nokia, the world's largest supplier of mobile phones, has teamed up with 3Com's Palm Computing to jointly develop a new line of wireless devices. While these devices won't be available for two years, you can still get more functionality out of your mobile phone sooner, as Nokia also reached a deal with Visto, a personal Web-based information service. The new line of products from Palm Computing and Nokia will wed the pen interface of handheld Palm computers with wireless phones, the two companies announced on Wednesday. Under the agreement announced at Telecom 99, Nokia will license the Palm operating system and develop pen-based wireless devices that can run Palm applications, according to Anssi Vanjoki, senior vice president for Europe and Africa at Nokia Mobile Phones. The first Nokia pen-based phones will hit the U.S. in 2001, followed by a worldwide rollout, he says. Communications Capabilities In addition to new pen-based products from Nokia, the joint development will produce new wireless communications capabilities for future Palm branded and licensed products, including implementations of WAP (Wireless Application Protocol) and Bluetooth technology for wireless local area networking, says Alan Kessler, president of Palm Computing. Nokia will contribute wireless voice communications and telephony applications, new emerging data protocols and IP-based wireless access to enterprise applications. Palm will contribute Web-clipping technology for wireless Internet and intranet access. The two companies will jointly develop an implementation of the Palm operating system running on top of the EPOC 32 kernel from Symbian and used in Nokia's "smart phones." Nokia's agreement with Visto will allow users of its WAP-enabled phones access to Web-based personal content. Visto offers e-mail, address books, and calendar information, which will all be available through the mobile phone.