3GSM preview: On with the show
For business customers, the rise of the BlackBerry has probably been the single biggest innovation in mobility since the mobile phone itself. Being able to access email as easily as SMS messages seems such as obvious and necessary application but was almost completely missed by much of the industry which allowed a relatively small Canadian firm called Research in Motion (RIM) to steal a substantial lead. But things have not all gone RIM's way; recently it has become mired in a patent dispute with NTP which could culminate in the email provider's entire US service being shut down. Whatever the result in the RIM case, so-called push email--literally pushing email out from an server to a mobile device--will continue to be an important development with players such as Symbian, Nokia/ Intellisync and Microsoft all keen to steal back some of RIM's lead. According to analyst Datamonitor, 50 percent of European enterprises deployed mobile email solutions in 2005, compared to just 39 percent in 2004. | |||||||||||||
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