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Bell Mobility partners with Nextair for dispatching
Bell Mobility and Nextair Inc. have partnered to deliver dispatch applications over the wireless Internet. Bell will begin offering Nextair’s Internet-based mdispatch.com and DispatchForce as its preferred wireless dispatch products in early 2002. Mdispatch.com comes with built-in options that makes the product amenable to various industries including courier, field service, transportation and healthcare companies and organizations. Using mdisptach.com, dispatchers can assign new tasks from their PC, while mobile staff can respond to these tasks in the field using their wireless device. DispatchForce is a dispatch and scheduling application designed for large businesses that has greater functionality and can be customized to address specific needs of a particular organization. In other Bell news, one of its partnerships with McGraw-Hill Ryerson has blossomed into the Mobile Learning Consortium. The consortium now includes the Northern Alberta Institute of Technology (NAIT), Seneca College and a number of other large corporations including Cap Gemini Ernst & Young, Blackboard, Compaq and Avaya. Under guidelines of the initiative, first-year students at Seneca and NAIT will receive access to curriculum materials through a wirelessly enabled device. About 300 students will trial the service, which gives them access to materials for their Introductory Accounting course via a Compaq iPAQ handheld computer.

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Rogers Wireless Communications Inc. has appointed Bruce Good as VP national corporate sales, effective immediately. He will be responsible for all corporate sales initiatives, including national corporate accounts and enterprise solutions. Good brings more than 20 years experience in the telecommunications and information technology industries having most recently served as national sales executive in the global services division at IBM Canada. Prior to joining IBM, he held senior management positions with Nortel Networks and Bell Canada.

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Java-based BlackBerry introduced at Comdex
Research in Motion Ltd. has unveiled its first GSM/GPRS-capable handheld, the Java-based BlackBerry 5810. The device integrates voice, email and PDA functionality, and features a micro-browser for web surfing. At its core, the 5810 sports the Java 2 Micro Edition as its operating system, which RIM executives tout as a secure, open platform for customers, carriers and developers. In the U.S., both AT&T Wireless and VoiceStream will sell the device, rounding out Canadian sales by Rogers Wireless Communications – though exact details of when the product will launch have yet to be announced. A European GSM/GPRS device will be sold in Europe where frequencies are slightly different. Global giant IBM has also signed on to provide business consulting and systems integration for the device.

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