Omnitel Licenses Phone.com Server Suite for its Portal Site.
Italy's second-largest mobile operator, Omnitel Pronto Italia SpA, has licensed the UP.Link server suite from Phone.com Inc, the US-based developer of software for mobile internet services based on the Wireless Application Protocol (WAP). Omnitel will use UP.Link on its new portal site, to be called Omnitel 2000,...

Samsung to transfer disk drive productions to RP.
Korea's giant Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. is looking at shifting its optical disk drive (ODD) production in Korea and Indonesia to the Philippines to integrate regional operations in a site where the cost of doing business is lower. The Korean chaebol also vowed to give European cellphone...

Nokia and GTZ to train Filipinos in mobile apps dev't via J2ME.
Byline: lynda b. valencia Nokia and GTZ have combined their resources to train and support Filipinos to develop mobile information and communications technology (ICT) via J2ME the micro edition of Sun Microsystemss Java language designed for mobile terminals. This is in line with the governments...

Symbian Claims EPOC 5 Will Unleash Apps Flood.
Symbian Plc, the consortium set up by Psion Plc, LM Ericsson Telefon AB, Nokia Oy Matsushita and Motorola Inc claims that Release 5 of its EPOC wireless internet device (WID) operating system, released yesterday, will help unleash a "flood" of applications into the emerging WID space, but remains tight-lipped...

Peramon Unveils Indexing, Search & Retrieval Email Client.
A UK start-up, Peramon Technology Ltd has launched a search and retrieval software package that acts as an email client that can be accessed through a variety of PCs, PDAs and wireless devices. The Reading, UK start-up was born in January, when all 18-employees were laid off from Compaq...

Lucent Licenses Netscape, Spyglass Tech for Zingo Portal.
Hoping to build an internet start-up page for mobile professionals, Lucent Technologies Inc has licensed Custom Netcenter from the Netscape subsidiary of America Online Inc. Lucent's portal, named Zingo, is designed to serve as a laboratory for testing Lucent and third party applications for wireless phones and hand-held personal...

Tech it in your stride.
Any traveller -- whether on business, working for an aid agency, trekking or simply on holiday -- would do well to check out some of the latest hi-tech equipment on offer. Who wants to be stranded, when a quick call on a satellite telephone, or email from a WAP...

Oracle's Project Panama Provides Web Access to Devices.
By Rachel Chalmers Oracle Corp has previewed Project Panama, a server that delivers existing static and dynamic internet content to any internet device. A prototype has already been deployed by Telia, the largest mobile operator in Scandinavia. Oracle reasons that there are two exploding markets. One is, obviously, the...

IBM OPEN SERVICE GATEWAY IS JUST ONE PART OF PERVASIVE.
By William Fellows IBM Corp says the Java-based Open Service Gateway announced yesterday (CI No 3,609), will be just one component of its pervasive computing initiative and will be used primarily as a mechanism for connecting and delivering internet-based services to complex client environments. It will use other kinds...

IBM Working on Service Subscription Platform.
IBM Corp says it has changed its view on how the pervasive computing devices of the future will receive the networked services that make them useful. Instead of discrete services, it is building what it calls a service delivery platform, server- side infrastructure which will deliver content from ISPs...