3GSM: Reporter's notebook

Nokia finishes Intellisync integration

Two years after buying Intellisync, Nokia has finally integrated the company’s mobile e-mail and over-the-air synchronization platform into its own mobile e-mail solution, allowing the carrier to offer to its own enterprise push solution. Nokia introduced the new platform, called Intellisync Mobile Suite 8.0, at the 3GSM World Congress offering it up for license as well as supporting it on its own phones. The platform supports both Java- and OS-based smart phones, and not just its own Symbian-Series 60 devices. Nokia will make it available over the Windows Mobile, Pocket PC and Palm operating systems as well as support other Symbian user interfaces such as Ericsson’s UIQ.

Concurrently at 3GSM Nokia launched its second wave of enterprise devices, all of which now have the new e-mail suite. It introduced a new version of its all-inclusive feature rich Communicator, the E90, and two smaller and scaled-down devices the E65 Slider and the E61i. Nokia also introduced new multimedia phones at the show including its first dedicated navigation device, the GPS-enabled 6110 Navigator.

Infospace, Fast partner for mobile Web search

Infospace and Fast Search and Transfer announced at the 3GSM World Congress a partnership to jointly launch a carrier search application that would allow service providers to customize the mobile search capabilities they offer their customers. Infospace provides its own meta-search application in favor of Fast’s due to the company’s experience with enterprise search and indexing. The idea, Fast's senior director of business development Michael Brady said, is to create a wide-label fully functional search application that would allow carriers to push their own deck content or preferred content to the forefront as well as allow its customers to personalize the service.