Ericsson deal only tip of the wireless iceberg
By Stephanie Miles and Joe Wilcox
Staff Writers, CNET News.com
December 8, 1999, 5:50 p.m. PT
http://yahoo.cnet.com/news/...200-1489091.html?pt.yfin.cat_fin.txt.ne
Microsoft's alliance with Ericsson provides one of the first snapshots of how the wireless Internet industry will develop, but
the partnerships in this malleable market are far from set in stone.
In the not-so-distant future, cell phone users will access the Internet, corporate databases, e-commerce sites and email
accounts from their smart phones. And if these new phones really do turn out to be the true convergence devices the
computing industry has been breathlessly predicting for the last few years, huge opportunities will emerge.
Not only are consumers going to need fancier phones, gadgets and portable operating systems, but corporations and
e-commerce Web sites will likely have to beef up their computing operations to serve them. Software and hardware makers
will profit, but so will content providers, telecommunications carriers and IT (information technology) consultants.
Handsome profits for L&H, see also the JV for e-commerce with Intel.
FYI, Ericsson and MSFT are long and strong L&H strategic partners and allies. |
