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To: Ramsey Su who wrote (30661)	5/23/1999 10:45:00 PM
From: Ruffian	Respond to of 152472

Good Perspective From Yahoo> Japan's DoCoMo covers all bases by: johnqual 20903 of 20904 Article makes it clear that largest JApanese wireless group, DoCoMo plans to abandon the Japanese PHS standard in a couple of years for a 3rd gen. CDMA system, probably W-CDMA. Now are working w/ all groups to make sure they get the best deal for Japan. Also working w/ both the MOT-NOK-ERICY EPOC software & Microsoft's CE & Sun's Java. JOHN BOYD'S COMPUTER CORNER ? 24 March 1999 NTT DoCoMo covers all bases Three major announcements in as many days last week reminded everyone just how big NTT DoCoMo, the mobile communications arm of Big Daddy NTT, really is. Last Monday it elected to tie up with British-based Symbian Ltd. Symbian is a joint-venture company between Psion Ltd. of the U.K. and three of the world's largest mobile phone companies -- Finland's Nokia, Sweden's Ericsson and U.S.-based Motorola. Psion is the creator of the EPOC operating system, which is used in several personal digital assistants, including its own Psion PDA. Symbian's goal is to transform the OS into a standard for mobile phones and other digital devices. With DoCoMo coming on board, EPOC looks well on the way to achieving its goal. Yet EPOC may not be the only de facto standard in the making. Microsoft hasn't given up hope of having the communications industry accept its competing Windows CE OS as an alternative. Microsoft made a mighty effort to get the Symbian backers to use Windows CE, the diminutive OS derived from Microsoft's flagship Windows OS for PCs, rather than EPOC. But having seen how Microsoft controls the PC industry through its software, the telecom companies wisely hung up on Microsoft. Instead, they persuaded Psion to sign over control of EPOC to the jointly held Symbian, in exchange for a 40 percent share in the company. Despite being cut off in this instance, Windows CE has made inroads into the PDA market in Japan and the United States. PC vendors on both sides of the Pacific have adopted it wholesale to run their PDAs, which are rapidly morphing into communications devices. Even Sharp, as successful as it is with its proprietary Zaurus PDA, launched a Windows CE-based PDA March 9. Microsoft has also formed a joint venture called WirelessKnowledge with Qualcomm, the creator of the popular Eudora e-mail software. WirelessKnowledge is mandated to develop secure Internet services (initially e-mail, messaging and the like) based on Windows CE to work in a wide variety of mobile terminals. WirelessKnowledge is selling the services to carriers, and has already signed on some of the largest U.S. names in the business.