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To: DiViT who wrote (103)	10/26/2000 4:28:31 PM
From: Dan Spillane	Respond to of 132

Looks great. And as handheld and settop box use goes up, so will revenue continue to in the future...

To: DiViT who wrote (103)	10/26/2000 7:07:06 PM
From: Dan Spillane	Respond to of 132

Microsoft releases database for handhelds By Wylie Wong Staff Writer, CNET News.com October 26, 2000, 12:55 p.m. PT Microsoft on Thursday launched its long-promised database software for handheld devices, paving the way for mobile workers to wirelessly access their corporate data. Microsoft joins database rivals Oracle, IBM, Sybase and Informix in the growing market for mobile databases as demand surges for handheld electronic devices. A mobile database is technology that stores and collects information. It allows employees using handhelds to link to their corporate networks, download data, work offline, and then connect to the network again to sync their work. Microsoft's technology--called SQL Server 2000 for Windows CE--runs on handheld devices that run on Windows CE and Pocket PC operating systems. Oracle, IBM, Sybase and Informix came out with their mobile databases more than a year before Microsoft, but analysts say the market is still nascent enough for the giant software company to compete. "It's not that late because it's still a slowly maturing market," said Gartner analyst Jon Rubin. "The shakeout hasn't happened yet, so they're entering the market in plenty of time." Microsoft executives said they're targeting the product to businesses that have a lot of mobile workers, such as delivery people, sales managers and even doctors. With a mobile database built into a handheld device, a package-delivery worker can collect signatures after each delivery and send the information to a corporate database at day's end, for instance. A doctor with a handheld device can roam around a hospital and immediately pull up patients' health data. "You can replace the clipboard," said Microsoft senior vice president Paul Flessner. Microsoft's database for handhelds, in the works for about a year and a half, joins a previously released database for laptop computers. It is compatible with other versions of Microsoft's SQL Server databases and supports Microsoft's Visual Basic and C++ software development tools.

To: DiViT who wrote (103)	10/26/2000 8:40:14 PM
From: Dan Spillane	Respond to of 132

Casio to market new PDAs abroad (Win CE) Thursday October 26, 8:15 pm Eastern Time TOKYO, Oct 27 (Reuters) - Casio Computer Co Ltd, Japan's largest digital wrist watch maker, said on Friday it will start supplying new personal digital assistants (PDAs) to major telecoms firms at home and abroad by December. Casio's PDA will be marketed through major foreign telecommunication companies such as Vodafone Airtouch Plc (quote from Yahoo! UK & Ireland: VOD.L), Hutchison Telecom and DDI Corp , Japan's second-largest phone company more commonly known as KDDI, a Casio spokesman said. The PDA, jointly developed with Vodafone, is equipped with a small digital camera and runs on Microsoft Corp's (NasdaqNM:MSFT - news) Windows CE operating system. In Britain, Casio's PDA will be packaged with a cellular phone and is expected to sell for about 350 pounds ($500). Casio, which used to sell PDAs only in Japan, shipped 300,000 PDAs in the year to March 2000 and aims to more than triple its sales to one million units in 2001/02, the spokesman said. In September, Sony Corp entered the PDA market by introducing the CLIE priced at 55,000 yen ($508.1) for the colour display model, to compete with Palm (NasdaqNM:PALM - news), Handspring (NasdaqNM:HAND - news), Sharp and Casio. By 0003 GMT, Casio's shares were up 2.82 percent at 1,130 yen.