Daily News 2006/01/19

Mobile MSN built into Nokia mobile phone for the first time-only for Chinese market

MSN (MSN.com.cn) announced that MSN was built in NOKIA mobile phone. Nokia 6708, with built-in MSN, is specially designed for Chinese market, and this is the first trial.

Nokia and Microsoft have been competing very fiercely with each other in the field of mobile operation system. Microsoft's mobile MSN has not been applied in Nokia's mobile phone terminal. After entering into Chinese market in May 2005, MSN Messenger was quite popular among the high-end users in China. Considering this, Nokia finally decided to cooperate with Microsoft.

Purchasing Prosody S in a simple and easy way

Aculab announced recently to launch an online order processing system for Prosody S－Aculab's host media processing (HMP) software package.
Nowadays, CPU of computer usually has a very high processing capacity, and it is possible to finish voice processing within the application server. Prosody S provides a voice processing function library needed in IP system, and is a good choice to realize voice information applications, simple or complicated. It is specially designed to solve the problems of dropping connection and time delay in the application of IVR.

Microsoft to cooperate with MCI to enter VoIP market

Officers of Microsoft announced at Raymond, Washington, that Microsoft intended to cooperate with MCI to enter into the VoIP market.
According to the report at Tech.monstersandcritics.com,"MCI Web Calling for Windows Live Call", which is launched by Microsoft and MCI jointly, will soon be put into trial operation in America, France, Germany, Spain, and Britain as a part of Microsoft's "Windows Live Messenger".
It is relatively late when Microsoft and MCI entered into this market. At present leaders in this market are Skype, AOL and Vonage. Skype has provided Internet-based video phone service, and is connecting fixed telephone lines with computers. Microsoft's network has not done this yet.