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Microsoft Software to Improve Internet Applications on Wireless.(Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News)
Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News, February, 2000 by Files, Jennifer
Feb. 29--NEW ORLEANS--Microsoft Corp. introduced software Monday that enhances the way its Internet applications, such as e-mail and travel reservations services, work with mobile phones. "Wireless is probably the component that's really going to take the scenarios that we've always believed in and make them a reality," said Microsoft chairman Bill Gates in a keynote address at Wireless 2000, the mobile telecommunications industry's biggest trade show. The trade show, in New Orleans through Wednesday, is expected to draw more than 20,000 attendees from mobile phone service providers and manufacturers.
Nextel and Vodafone Airtouch agreed to make Microsoft the software available to their customers, and Microsoft is working with other carriers and developing more...
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