Tuesday, April 04, 2006

Microsoft Wins Big Order for Cellphone Software

A Bloomberg News article, via The New York Times, reports that:

Microsoft has won its biggest contract ever for mobile phone software, an order from the United States Census Bureau for 500,000 handsets.

Microsoft plans to unveil the deal as early as today, Scott Horn, a general manager for the company, said in an interview. Microsoft expects to increase its mobile unit's sales to $1 billion in one to three years, from $337 million last year, and break the dominance of the Research In Motion BlackBerry wireless e-mail device.

More here.

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