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 : The New Qualcomm - a S&P500 company -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: 2brasil who wrote (4068)	12/9/1999 10:12:00 AM
From: Sweet Ol	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 13582

re: Microsoft/Ericsson & Amazon/Sprint Deals. The following is from Internet World's email edition. They have some interesting thoughts on the arrangements. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Behind the Microsoft-Ericsson Wireless Deal By Nate Zelnick In more wireless data news (see above), Microsoft and Ericsson formed a joint venture Wednesday intended to bridge Microsoft's Internet efforts to the wireless world. The as-yet-unnamed company will concentrate on building services and applications that use Windows NT and the Exchange groupware platforms to deliver services to cell phones and untethered data network devices. Microsoft formed exactly the same joint venture last November with Qualcomm, which sold its Code Division Multiple Access (CDMA) infrastructure business to Ericsson in May. This company will face off against Symbian, a venture formed by Ericsson rival Nokia and a host of Microsoft competitors. The Ericsson/Microsoft venture pools some of the two companies parallel efforts, specifically work on Wireless Application Protocol development and use. Microsoft is contributing its newly announced micro-browser Mobile Explorer for feature phones. Ericsson is contributing its WAP stack -- the basic component for transmitting and receiving data in that format. Microsoft Mobile Explorer is a platform independent browser, which means that the company's products won't need Windows CE. The new company's products will also support BlueTooth, a widely-backed system for exchanging data across different devices via low-power radio transceivers. Back to Top -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Amazon Cuts Retail Deal With Sprint PCS By Whit Andrews Amazon.com checked off another place on its "everywhere" list Wednesday with a Sprint PCS placement deal. The bookseller turned seeker-of-world-domination announced a deal with Sprint PCS that will immediately give it preferred placement on telephone mini-browsers. Buyers can even use the gift-click function, which requires only the recipient's e-mail address to make a purchase. Amazon will then e-mail the receiver and ask him or her where to send the gift. So in the 1990s we have gone from the coffeeshop bookstore to Wal-Mart on a phone. No word yet on whether Sprint plans to set up baristas on its mini-browser as well. Best to all, JRH