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Assembly reaches deal on draft accord for UN reform
United Nations: The UN General Assembly capped months
of negotiations over UN reform by adopting a wide-ranging
but watered-down accord for presentation to the world's
largest summit here this week.
Drafted
on the organization's 60th anniversary, the document sought
to strike a balance between fighting global poverty and
battling terrorism while promoting human rights, preventing
genocides and UN management reforms.
But
it reflected lingering divisions between rich and poor
nations on how to approach a host of issues, including
human rights, UN management practices, and disarmament,
which was left out altogether.
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Nokia
launches mobile e-mail for wide corporate use
San Francisco/Helsinki: Nokia, the world's largest
maker of mobile phones, said it was launching a corporate
e-mail system to allow workers at almost any level to
send and receive mail from their mobiles.
Nokia
Business Center, as the new e-mail system is to be known,
seeks to bridge the gap between the world's 650 million
corporate e-mail accounts and the elite of about 10 million
who have mobile access to their business e-mail inboxes.
The
Finnish group said it wanted to make e-mail more cost-effective
and available on a wider range of phones. Nokia's e-mail
system comes in two modes. A standard version gives office
staff basic read/write access to e-mail.
A
professional version integrates directly into a company's
corporate network directory, giving people direct access
to their e-mail on their mobile device in the same way
they would expect to use it on their office computer.
It also allows the mobile worker to handle hefty e-mail
attachments.
The
standard version comes free when a company purchases a
server license, Grannan said. Each server license covers
400 people and is priced at 1,800 euros.The professional
version requires a company to pay an additional one-time
fee, per user, of 55 euros, giving them a perpetual license
for each office worker. The cost per user for Blackberry
licenses ranges from two to four times as much.
The
e-mail system will become commercially available during
the fourth quarter in the United States and Europe, resulting
in some initial revenue. Other regions follow next year.
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