Heavyweights aim to make wireless access to groupware as 'pervasive as voice mail'.

RCR Wireless News, September, 2001 by SMITH, HILARY

Using Wireless Knowledge Inc.'s Workstyle software and Qualcomm Inc.'s Binary Runtime Environment for Wireless platform, Verizon Wireless and Sprint PCS are planning to offer a new service that will allow their enterprise customers to wirelessly access their e-mail, calendar and contact information stored on a Microsoft Exchange or a Lotus Domino-based system, the companies announced last week.

Eric Schultz, chairman and chief executive officer of Wireless Knowledge, said this announcement is a major step toward making groupware access a mainstream service. "Our collective mission is to speed the adoption of enterprise mobility and make wireless access to groupware as pervasive as voice mail," Schultz said. Traditionally, vendors have sold...

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