3COM BUYS FRENCH FIRM TO DEVELOP MOBILE INTERNET.

The US networking firm and palmtop computer producer 3Com Corp has bought the French company Smartcode Technologie to develop an Internet access technology for the cellphone market in Europe for USD17.5 million (Euro 15.86 million). The move came one day after the announcement of a link-up between BT (British Telecom) and Microsoft Corp aimed at bridging the divide between computers and mobile communications. Symbian, a consortium led by Britain's Psion Plc and a more direct competitor to 3Com, is also planning to develop a wireless operating system based on Psion's hand-held products. Smartcode, based in Montpellier, in the South of France, is a developer of wireless data communications suitable...

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