The corporate group diary provides a centralised electronic diary which can be shared with other users. Diaries can be updated and altered centrally from a WAP phone or PC.

The directory service provides a central database of staff details which can be searched. This too is administered centrally.

These new calendar and directory services will perhaps be the first encounter businesses have with WAP. They will soon become as indispensable as e-mails providing staff with up-to-date company information for people on the move said Project Telecom chief executive Tim Radford.

Project Telecom claims to be one of the UKs leading independent telecoms brokers. It offers phone rental paging services fixed line business numbers and mobile applications to corporate users such as Cathay Pacific and Channel Four.

Amstrads last foray into handset manufacture ended in April 1997 when it sold Dancall Telecom to Bosch for 92 million.

Ironically Bosch quit the mobile market in May this year when it sold all its mobile phone interests to Siemens.

At the time of the Dancall deal Amstrad signed an undertaking not to compete with Bosch for three years and this has now expired.

The company claims to have developed a feature-packed GSM mobile phone at a very competitive price. Volume production is scheduled to commence imminently. Amstrad hopes to extend the range later on depending on market demands Handsets will be produced by a manufacturing partner in China.

Amstrad believes that being a low cost producer with a low overhead base will give it a fundamental competitive advantage because network operators want cheaper handsets to reduce their subsidy costs.

Amstrad also believes its product will give operators a unique selling point because it plans to offer own brand exclusivity to one network operator in every geographic market. Handsets wont be sold to consumers under the Amstrad brand name.

The company is in discussions with a number of Western and Central European network operators and hopes to announce some deals soon.

The Dutch company has strong potential for growth. Heimeriks has a customer base of more than 100000 people with strong links to Hollands principal mobile phone network operators and retailers said Emanuel.

Emanuel already has a presence in Holland through his group Interactive Telecom Solutions which has 70 retail stores trading under the t banner.

ITS also owns a big repair and service facility in Rotterdam.

The mobile revolution shows no sign of abating and it is our firm intention to strengthen our position on the continent through a policy of focused investment and brand development he said.

The new role puts Sweet in charge of marketing data devices such as PDAs GSM modules wireless LAN products and MP3 players.

Sweet spent two years at Bosch where he was responsible for building the companys mobile comms market in the UK from a standing start to a 50 million a year business prior to the Bosch sellout to Siemens (see Amstrad story above).

Before joining Bosch Sweet was with Sony and ad agency Clarity.

The collaboration means Lotus will be able to offer its 60 million Lotus Notes users worldwide faster mobile internet access to business information on their companys servers.

Vodafone UK chief executive Peter Bamford said the deal with Lotus was a key stage in Vodafones GRPS programme.

It brings Vodafone together with Lotus whose Notes application is widely-used by many of our corporate clients.

Media content is streamed into the phone by pressing the video function key and browsing through a list of available content similar to scrolling through digital satellite TV channels.

GEO has demonstrated a superb technical and technological ability in delivering the A2 chip on time enabling us to build the worlds first streaming video cellphone said a Samsung spokesman.

Added GEO co-founder Sharon Carmel:

This phone represents the opening of a new era in human communication.

GEO which is listed on the London Stock Exchange is capitalised at 2.2 billion. It develops streaming audio and video for telecom and IP networks.

The two companies will provide personnel software training knowledge and financial resources to develop wireless solutions for their corporate clients. Nokia will make its Nokia Activ Server WAP software available to Andersen clients.

Early users of WAP have expressed frustration at the slow speed at which information can be downloaded and the limited relevance of that information to their personal requirements said MobileAge chief executive Roy Smith.

Europeans send each other more than a billion text messages a month so SMS is a cheap and popular option. The SIM Toolkit is a tried and tested technology and is a secure and stable option for organisations moving into m-commerce.

The site www.rfi-wireless.com has 12 test pages which can be used for checking. Each page contains a different error designed to see how robust browsers are.

The All Talk service is Guernsey Telecoms first pre-pay offering. The box-set is an Ericsson A2618s selling for 89.99.

The service is a single tariff with electronic voucher top-ups using e-Vita terminals.