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News for Today, Nov 24

News items from across my desk today:

  • Following the lead from NTP Inc., which has been successful in initial litigation against Research In Motion for patent infringement, InPro II Licensing has sued T-Mobile USA Inc. and Research In Motion on similar groups. T-Mobile USA is a subsidiary of Deutsche Telekom. detnews.com

  • Infowave Software updated Symmetry Pro, its wireless email service for individual consumers. Support was added for Windows Mobile Smartphone 2003, Pocket PC 2003, Symbian Series 60, and Symbian 7.0 UIQ devices. Available immediately, although Infowave's mobile operator partners must upgrade in order to deliver network support. Infowave

  • Oracle has licensed the Jabber Extensible Communications Platform (XCP) from Jabber, supposedly for use in Release 3 of its Oracle Collaboration Suite, due 1H2004. Oracle plans to support both SIP/SIMPLE (which Microsoft and IBM Lotus have supported) and XMPP (the IETF standard which forms the basis of Jabber's platform). IMPlanet

Posted on November 24, 2003 in Daily Briefing |

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Comments

Nick Shelness

"Oracle plans to support both SIP/SIMPLE (which Microsoft and IBM Lotus have supported)"

I would be very careful about the use of the word "supported" in the context Microsoft's Office System 2003 Live Server". While it is true the Live Server supports a protocol based on SIP and SIMPLE, it has been so heavily extended that interworking with a pure SIMPLE client may be pointeless if, not strictly speaking, impossible.

Posted by: Nick Shelness | November 24, 2003 at 11:05 PM

Michael Sampson

Yes, you're right Nick, I was too gracious in my choice of words. Microsoft has not implemented a pure version of SIP/SIMPLE.

Posted by: Michael Sampson | November 25, 2003 at 12:56 PM

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