Salon Telecom Genève

http://www.itu.int/WORLD2003/index-fr.html

12 au 18 octobre 2003 : tout le Bottin Mondain des Telecoms.

Articles :

• BillGates, showman à Genève -- Libé 14/10/2003

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Source Le Monde Photo d'actualité ... :
Bill Gates, président de Micro Soft, s'entretient avec Ian Maxwell?, président de Voda Fone, lors d'une convention sur les télécommunications, à Genève. Les deux compagnies lancent un nouveau Téléphone Portable, le E200?, équipé d'un appareil photo et d'une connexion sans fil utilisant la technologie Blue Tooth. -- Jeff Christensen?/Reuters.

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• Microsoft and Vodafone Partner to Create New Business Opportunities Spanning the Computing and Mobile Worlds

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Evolving the Software Model

Web services create new and exciting possibilities for the mobile telecommunications market. By using mobile Web services, developers can create more compelling user experiences that allow PC-based applications to take advantage of services formerly reserved for mobile devices, such as mobile messaging, location, billing and authentication. By integrating mobile services into their software, developers gain more flexibility in how their applications create value. Mobile network operators can extend their businesses by making their network services available to the broadest audience of developers and software users.

Laying the Foundation for the Vision

As a global player in the mobile telecommunications market, Vodafone has more than 123 million customers throughout the world. Vodafone's proven track record in supporting millions of consumers accessing mobile network services makes it an ideal leader to show how mobile services can extend to the PC.
Microsoft's leadership in application development and its Web services expertise complement Vodafone's mobile services expertise. Micro Soft and Voda Fone expect that other companies will recognize the potential of Web services within the PC and mobile space and join this effort.

Industry Call to Action

At the Microsoft(R) Professional Developers Conference (PDC) in Los Angeles, Oct. 27 - 30, Microsoft and Vodafone will share a technical road map for specifications that address such issues as integrating GSM-based security services with the Web services architecture, as well as exposing location, messaging and payment network services using the Web services architecture. Microsoft and Vodafone will invite industry feedback on the mobile Web services efforts announced, and introduce a series of industry workshops, the first of which will be in London in January 2004. The companies will release a joint white paper further detailing their vision for the PC and mobile space convergence at the PDC. More information can be found at http://www.microsoft.com/serviceproviders/mobilewebservices and http://www.vodafone.com. (...)

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Category Telecom