Today's highlights: Microsoft and Palm; New customer for PTC; Intellisync Unified Messaging; Apptix Adds to Management Team;
- Microsoft and Palm announced a licensing deal, for Windows Mobile 5.0 to power a forthcoming Palm Treo. The Treo 700w, available in 1Q2006, will initially run exclusively on the Verizon Wireless CDMA network. Palm says the key driver is to make the Treo hardware more attractive to enterprise IT. Palm US, with coverage at Computerworld, Pocket PC Thoughts, and CIO Today
- PTC announced that Airbus is using its collaborative product development environment for developing order-specific variants of the Airbus A380 aircraft. Customers are able to link directly into the Airbus PTC system. BusinessWire
- Intellisync introduced Intellisync Unified Messaging for mobile devices, a single interface to email, voice mail, text messages and instant messaging. IM support is available immediately for AOL, Google, Jabber, ICQ, MSN Messenger and Yahoo Messenger, with IBM Lotus Sametime and Microsoft LCS support coming. Presence is also integrated into the display, enabling users to know when colleagues and customers are available. Intellisync Unified Messaging is available for Palm OS, Microsoft Windows Mobile, Symbian OS and BREW-based devices. Available November 2005. Intellisync
- Apptix, a provider of on-demand messaging and collaboration managed solutions for the SME market, added three people to its management team. The new VPs of marketing, channel sales and business development, and web sales, will work to expand the company's global footprint. prnewswire.com
This Briefing was written by Michael Sampson, of Shared Spaces Research & Consulting Ltd. Email or IM Michael to discuss any of these items further.
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