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Motorola takes wraps off FOMA WCDMA/WiFi device

Motorola today announced the launch of the FOMA M1000, what it claims to be is the world's first WiFi-integrated WCDMA and GSM/GPRS dual-mode smartphone, developed jointly with Japanese operator NTT DoCoMo

Nokia to Offer Extended Mobility to Businesses

Nokia recently laid out plans to significantly increase the options businesses have to optimize their voice services. Speaking at the annual Nokia Connection media event, Jaakko Olkkonen, Nokia’s general manager for Enterprise Voice Solutions, described the strategy as a, “fundamentally new way to marry the best of fixed and mobile telephony to provide cost savings and productivity to businesses and employees, new business opportunities for service providers and simplicity and freedom for people in or out of the office.”

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Qualcomm BREWs up European strategy

CDMA pioneer Qualcomm yesterday stepped up plans to push BREW in the GSM space, with the introduction of deliveryOne - a content delivery platform designed to introduce BREW, streaming video, 3D gaming and the uiOne user interface through a device and infrastructure agnostic medium. The initiative is to be carried out through a co-operative marketing agreement with UK mobile content delivery firm Elata to accelerate the content delivery system and provide support for BREW, Java, OMA, streaming content, ring tones and images.

Qualcomm said the jointly developed content delivery system combines BREW with Elata's platform agnostic offering to consolidate all content services for all device platforms under a single service delivery system, providing operators with the ability to choose from multiple products - enabling them to remain committed to their existing device portfolio while evolving their line up to include handsets with new capabilities.

Despite the fact that it has been technically possible to run BREW over GSM for some time now, the CDMA pioneer has struggled to gain acceptance for its offering in Europe. However, Elata counts operators such as 3, Orange, Amena and Optimus in its customer base. Qualcomm initiated its BREW GSM strategy in October with the US$36 million acquisition of UK developer Trigenix, which is developing a GSM user interface for BREW and has been doing some work with Elata.