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IBM, Openwave call on 'speedy' phone services
IBM and wireless software maker Openwave unveiled a 10-year development agreement Monday to upgrade equipment that IBM sells to telephone service providers. The two companies want to enhance IBM's Service Provider Delivery Environment, or SPDE (pronounced "speedy"), which is the latest example of so-called "mobile middleware" created so telephone companies can offer new services to customers without the typically expensive and lengthy network upgrades. IBM plans to incorporate into SPDE most of the wireless messaging software from Openwave, which also makes the Web browser now inside tens of millions of the world's Web-enabled cell phones, IBM General Manager Adel Al-Saleh said. Openwave products let phones send and receive different types of e-mails, including some with photo attachments. --Ben Charny, Special to ZDNet News
IBM and wireless software maker Openwave unveiled a 10-year development agreement Monday to upgrade equipment that IBM sells to telephone service providers.
The two companies want to enhance IBM's Service Provider Delivery Environment, or SPDE (pronounced "speedy"), which is the latest example of so-called "mobile middleware" created so telephone companies can offer new services to customers without the typically expensive and lengthy network upgrades.
IBM plans to incorporate into SPDE most of the wireless messaging software from Openwave, which also makes the Web browser now inside tens of millions of the world's Web-enabled cell phones, IBM General Manager Adel Al-Saleh said. Openwave products let phones send and receive different types of e-mails, including some with photo attachments. --Ben Charny, Special to ZDNet News