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Sage Acquires Corum Mobile Division



Sage Software has announced the acquisition of Corum Mobile Division of
Canada based Corum Corporation, specializing in mobile CRM technology. The Corum

Mobile Platform provides the infrastructure and functionality needed to design,

build, deploy and manage scalable mobile applications that include mobile sales

and field service automation.

The acquisition strengthens Sage's current and planned use of

Corum's mobile CRM technology, which is already fully integrated with and

available for Sage CRM SalesLogix. The Corum Mobile Platform supports BlackBerry,

Microsoft Windows Mobile, and Palm hand-held devices using the Windows Mobile

operating system, and provides users with secure, always available, access to

critical information within their existing enterprise software.

Lenovo Launches Advanced

Notebooks






Lenovo has introduced its new range of feature rich notebooks catering to

the home and SOHO customers in India. The two notebooks, Lenovo Y300 and

Y500 come with biometric face recognition technology, enhancing data

security and allowing the notebooks to be used by multiple users

seamlessly. The Lenovo Y300 is targeted at tech-savvy and

security-conscious consumers, while the Lenovo Y500 is targeted at

security-conscious consumers and multimedia enthusiasts.

The face recognition

feature is supported by Veriface software. The technology recognizes

multiple users and logs onto the Windows operating system and other

applications without requiring users to remember a single password.

Additionally, the Y500

has advanced Dolby home theater, a shuttle center for easy navigation

between features, a slot-in ODD and a TV tuner card that combine together

to make it an ideal notebook for multimedia enthusiasts.

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Nortel's WiMax Trial in Delhi



Nortel is gearing up to launch its fixed WiMax trial run in New Delhi and
Gurgaon. The company officials are tight-lipped about the project details and

are not sharing the partner they are launching the test-run with. Mallikaarjun

Rao, director (Carrier Networks), Nortel India, agreed that the company is going

to start the test run in December. In the last month, Intel chairman Craig

Barrett visited Baramati in Maharashtra and launched a WiMax network for a

digital hospital.

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Search Google in Airtel



Bharti Airtel and Google have announced a strategic partnership in which Airtel
will bring Google search to the Airtel Live mobile WAP portal. Google will also

incorporate advertising through its mobile ads product on the Airtel Live mobile

portal. The Google search engine on Airtel Live mobile portal will enable Airtel

users to use the Google search engine to easily access content. Google will

power searches on Airtel Live in two areas, on net and off net.

Avaya's Embedded Communication



Avaya Global Services is working on embedded communication offerings that would
be integrated with business processes directly, thus making communication

automated while obviating the need for thinking about communication per se. The

Pune center has a current headcount of 600 people, and has been growing at 50%

for the past few years. The trials of various products are already in progress

and Avaya would be shipping the first SOA versions in February as a notification

tool.

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Ericsson-Intel Joint Services



Ericsson has announced a joint effort with Intel to accelerate deployment of
services and applications on mobile PCs powered by Ericsson's mobile broadband

and IMS solutions and Intel core micro-architecture for mobile clients and

servers. Both the companies would work together on integrating solutions for

mobile operators. These integrated solutions will be based on Ericsson's

high-speed packet access platform for mobile broadband and IMS platform for

convergence with Intel's Mobile technology.

mFormation Enters Strategic

Mobile Payments Alliance with Visa





Mobile device management
solutions provider, mFormation Technologies Inc, has announced a strategic

alliance with Visa International to advance over-the-air (OTA) solutions

for mobile payments. As part of the relationship, Visa has made a

strategic investment in mFormation.

mFormation and Visa will

work together, bringing in their respective expertise in the mobile and

financial industries, to develop OAT delivery and management solutions for

mobile payment applications. The pilot trials of these new functionalities

are expected in the year 2007. mFormation provides solutions that enable

mobile operators to manage wireless handsets and mobile services remotely.

This ability offers the potential for banks and operators to securely and

remotely provision mobile devices with payment applications.

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F-Secure Mobile Security



F-Secure has announced the launch of its latest mobile product, F-Secure
mobile security. In addition to previous versions of F-Secure Mobile Anti-Virus,

the F-Secure mobile security for S60 3rd edition now features a firewall to

guard against mobile malware threats and intrusion attempts. F-Secure is the

first mobile security vendor to offer a complete mobile security solution with

firewall for devices based on S60 3rd edition and Symbian OS v9. The firewall

featured in the new F-Secure mobile security solution has pre-defined firewall

profiles for regulating both incoming and outgoing traffic providing easy and

automatic protection.

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Nokia Launches E62 Smartphone



With its launch in the country, India has become the second country in the
world after US to sell the Nokia E62 Smartphone. The latest entrant into Nokia's

flagship E series range will further strengthen the company's business

mobility offerings.

According to InStat, a leading market research firm, 18.8 mn

smartphones were sold in APAC in 2006 and this number is expected to increase to

64.2 mn by 2010.

Nokia E62 has a full messaging keyboard and supports the Nokia

PC Suite. It supports multiple audio formats that include MP3, MPEG4 (ACC),

RealAudio and MIDI formats.

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