Swatch to sell Microsoft-based wireless watches
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Swiss watchmaker Swatch on Wednesday introduced &quot;Paparazzi&quot; watches that use Microsoft&#39;s Smart Personal Objects Technology (SPOT), giving Dick Tracy wannabes yet another watch brand to choose from.
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Microsoft plans to launch an online music store. Also: Copernic Technologies releases free desktop search software & hellip;. Hitachi, Matsushita Electric Industrial and Toshiba team up to make displays for flat-screen TVs & hellip;. and more.
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SEATTLE  - Two dozen designers, engineers and strategists toil in an unusual research lab on the Microsoft campus. Awkwardly dubbed the Mobile and Embedded Devices Experience design center, or MEDX, it is where Microsoft plots strategies to sell souped-up cellphones that act a lot like PCs.
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Wireless giant Qualcomm (Quote, Chart) has inked a licensing deal with Microsoft (Quote, Chart) it claims will make it easier to play audio and video on its handsets.
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(InfoWorld) - Japanese operator Willcom has launched a hosted e-mail and personal-information management service based on Microsoft's Exchange Server 2003. The new Access P-Berry service lets users access messages and other information from their Windows Mobile-based W-Zero3 ES smartphones. Introduced in July, the W-Zero3 ES is made by Sharp and is only the second Windows Mobile handset launched in Japan. It's predecessor, the W-Zero3 instantly became a hit when it was the first such handset launched in the market. Other smart phones sold in Japan run either Linux or the Symbian operating system. Intended for small and medium-sized businesses, Willcom's Access P-Berry lets users access e-mails, their calendar, and contacts from their handsets. Pricing for the service, which comes bundled with the handsets, was not available. Microsoft has recently been winning more business from Asian operators. In June, Shanghai Telecom Co.Â  introduced an Exchange-based messaging service for its business customers. The company also won a deal in July to provide the software for an advertising system developed by South Korea's Portal Tone.
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Microsoft is adding film showings channel to its MSN Direct data service for smart watches.
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Company unveils 'WidSets' for Java-enabled phones.
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Microsoft has licensed its ActiveSync technology to OEM partners Motorola and PalmOne to enable a new class of non-Windows smart phones to wirelessly synchronize with Exchange Server 2003.
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Microsoft Corp. MSFT.O and watch  maker Swatch UHR.VX  are offering wireless data watches with  faster information updates at lower prices than earlier models,  the companies said on Wednesday.
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Swiss watchmaker Swatch has teamed up with Microsoft&#39;s MSN Direct division to launch a high-tech timepiece called Paparazzi. For wannabe celeb hunters, the smart watch offers specialised content from Time
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When Microsoft realized that enterprises needed help deploying and&#160;managing mobile phones, it turned to a partner it first found in the 1980s.Microsoft approached Mort Rosenthal recently with the idea of starting a company that could help enterprises design, deploy, and manage Windows Mobile mobile phones and services, Rosenthal said. He plans to formally launch the company, called Enterprise Mobile, on Tuesday at the CTIA Wireless I.T. and Entertainment conference in San Francisco. Microsoft is a minority stakeholder in the Watertown, Massachusetts, company, which has quietly been doing business since June.Rosenthal began working with Microsoft in the 1980s when he founded Corporate Software, a company that resold software to large companies and offered them technical service and support.The enterprise mobile market looks similar to the software market at that time, when software was largely sold through retail stores without channels or support for enterprises, he said.&quot;What comes from the [mobile] market is consumer-driven devices,&quot; he said. &quot;We&#39;re about turning those consumer driven devices into enterprise devices.&quot;Enterprise Mobile will do that by offering a wide range of services to enterprises, starting with development of a vision, through to deployment and then including management and support services.Currently, an enterprise has to work with different types of companies that provide a range of services including security, asset management and expense management, said Kitty Weldon, an analyst at Current Analysis. &quot;What Enterprise Mobile brings is the ability for companies to just say, &#39;phew, I can go to this one set of people and they can do everything&#39;,&quot; she said.Enterprise Mobile will work exclusively with Windows Mobile phones so it won&#39;t serve companies that want to support a variety of devices, including BlackBerrys. However, there&#39;s a large market for companies that are happy to standardize on Windows Mobile and other providers similar to Enterprise Mobile might pop up to serve the heterogeneous companies, Weldon said.Enterprise Mobile customers can pay for the services in a number of ways, including a flat consulting fee for the design of a system and then a monthly per-device fee or a per-incident fee for ongoing support.One of the most attractive parts of the ongoing service offering will be that Enterprise Mobile serves as a single point of contact, Rosenthal said. &quot;Today if you have questions, do you call the operator, Microsoft or the OEM?&quot; he said. &quot;Here, we&#39;re the one throat to choke.&quot;Another problem facing many enterprises is challenges around device procurement. If an administrator is designing a new mobile deployment to launch in a few months, it&#39;s virtually impossible to find out if a chosen device will continue to be available by then. Operators and handset makers aren&#39;t forthcoming with that information, Rosenthal said.That&#39;s different from the PC world, where manufacturers will continue to support and make older models even while they introduce new ones.Enterprise Mobile hopes to help solve this problem by working closely with operators and phone makers and possibly even to create its own inventory of devices in order to maintain availability longer, Rosenthal said.Currently, Enterprise Mobile doesn&#39;t have much competition, Weldon said. Companies such as IBM, Accenture, and Electronic Data Systems do help enterprises deploy and manage mobile phones, but they often do so only in tandem with other large jobs, and they may outsource the work to various companies with expertise in different components, she said.However, Microsoft expects to partner with other companies like Enterprise Mobile that might emerge. &quot;We&#39;re kick-starting a new level of engagement&quot; with Enterprise Mobile, said John O&#39;Rourke, general manager of Microsoft&#39;s mobile communications business.Enterprise Mobile has implemented beta versions of Systems Center Mobile Device Manager 2008, mobile device management software that Microsoft plans to introduce on Tuesday.
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Long-time rivals PalmOne (Nasdaq: PALM) and Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT) have announced a licensing agreement that will enable the next generation of PalmOne's Treo smartphones to work directly with Microsoft's Exchange 2003 e-mail system.
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The third-party widgets platform with Microsoft ties will ship with Windows Mobile phones, thanks to a renewed partnership with Microsoft.
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MSN Direct customers will soon have an added feature on their Smart Watches - local movie listings. Provided by CinemaSource, the new movie channel allows subscribers to track up to 10 theaters and easily find showtimes starting November 8. The MSN Direct addition becomes the latest effort by Microsoft to ramp up its Smart Personal Objects Technology (SPOT) initiative. Watch makers Fossil and Swatch recently unveiled sleeker models that support the MSN service.
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Microsoft and watch maker Swatch are offering a new line of wireless data watches, the companies said Wednesday, bringing the era of Dick Tracy wristwatch radios one step closer.
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Decision may bring world of wireless peripherals to market.
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MicrosoftWatch: The Redmond software firm is set to make available more of its code under an open-source license on Tuesday. Microsoft is preparing to release a third piece of code under an open-source license