Microsoft plans wireless software push
C|Net | at | by Mike
Microsoft's battle for cell phone software supremacy will heat up at this week's Cellular Telecommunications and Internet Association annual conference. On Monday, Microsoft plans to kick off the Cellular Telecommunications and Internet Association (CTIA) conference in New Orleans by announcing the addition of another wireless device maker, Waterloo, Ontario-based Research In Motion, to the list of those developing phones using its advanced phone software. Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates will also make a relatively rare appearance at the conference to drum up support for his company's Pocket PC Phone Edition and Smartphone 2002 software. The company will also announce that U.S. carrier Sprint PCS plans later this year to sell two camera phones--the Samsung i700 PocketPC and the Hitachi G-1000--that will use a version of Microsoft smart phone software, Microsoft spokesman Ed Suwanjindar said.