IBM, Symbian to build wireless enterprise apps

IBM and Symbian yesterday announced a joint agreement to create wireless enterprise applications for users of Symbian-based smart phones and other devices.

The announcement comes a day after Intel said it plans to invest $US100 million in Symbol Technologies to develop wireless high-speed LAN technologies. The focus will be on creating new chips, adapter cards and access points for advanced wireless networking, the two companies said.

Current Web-enabled smart phones require users to stay online to access data or send and receive e-mail.

IBM plans to provide software to support security and reliability in the data connections between the server and handheld device. Symbian, meanwhile, will provide the device's operating system.

IBM's software will include MQSeries Everywhere, DB2Everywhere and IBM Mobile Connect.

Symbian, based in London, promotes the EPOC operating system for handhelds, which competes with the Palm OS from Palm Computing and Windows CE from Microsoft.

IBM and Symbian didn't announce a timetable for releasing the enterprise applications. However, such applications will give mobile workers real-time access to Web and corporate data and let them work with the information offline without needing a continuous network connection.

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