NETWORK WORLD NEWSLETTER: KEITH SHAW ON WIRELESS COMPUTING DEVICES 11/11/04 Today's focus: Mobility: It's all about the e-mail
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Witness the following recent announcements and quotes: * Nokia teams with Good Technology, Oracle Nokia and Good Technology agreed to extend the GoodLink wireless e-mail system to Nokia's mobile devices aimed at business customers. In a statement, Nokia said it believes mobilizing e-mail is "one of the first steps in business mobility." After that, wireless access to mission-critical applications beyond e-mail becomes a natural evolution, Nokia added. The GoodLink system offers Advanced Encryption Standard, two-way and real-time access to Microsoft Exchange-based e-mail, contacts, calendar, notes and tasks. Good also partners with the major U.S. carriers, and Orange and O2 in Europe. Nokia also announced it was extending its alliance with Oracle for push e-mail capability for the Oracle Collaboration Suite on the Nokia 9500 Communicator and the 9300 enterprise smart phone. The e-mail software, designed by Oracle and Consilient, will be based on the Push-IMAP standard and is expected in the first quarter of 2005, Nokia says. * Sun and SEVEN put SEVEN's mobile e-mail client onto J2ME At the CTIA Wireless IT Show last month, SEVEN and Sun said they are working together to bring SEVEN's mobile e-mail client to the next version of the Java 2 Platform Micro Edition (J2ME) mobile handsets. "Mobile e-mail will go the way of mobile phones and voice mail - from 'nice to have' to 'must have,'" SEVEN President and Co-CEO Kent Thexton said. The company said Java-enabled handsets will soon come pre-installed with the SEVEN e-mail client for mobile operators' smart phone offerings. * 4SmartPhone creates personal mobility system A company named 4SmartPhone announced the Xpress Service plan, which creates a personal mobility system for individuals. The service runs on Windows Exchange 2003 and provides access to contacts, e-mail, calendar and documents for any individual who owns a Microsoft Windows mobile device, in addition to data-enabled phones, smart phones and wireless PDAs. The service costs $3.99 per month (introductory price, then it's $4.99 per month), 4SmartPhone says. The service lets people use their own e-mail address, gives them 100M bytes of mailbox space on a hosted Exchange Server 2003, over-the-air synchronization of e-mail, contacts and calendar, and mobile access through Outlook Smart Access. Other features include virus checking, SSL encryption, spam filtering and daily backups. For more information on the 4SmartPhone service, go to <http://www.4smartphone.net/> _______________________________________________________________ To contact: Keith Shaw Keith Shaw is Senior Reviews Editor at Network World. In addition, he writes the " Cool Tools <http://www.nwfusion.com/columnists/cooltools.html> " column, which looks at gizmos, gadgets and other mobile computing devices. You can reach Keith at <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>. _______________________________________________________________ This newsletter is sponsored by Cisco Systems Special Report: Bridging the Gap; Enterprise ROI IT professionals today don't indulge in the latest-greatest technology for their own sake; instead they concentrate efforts on projects that are most likely to help achieve business goals. 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