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...which stands for "any question answered," is the London-based brainchild of Colly Myers, a mobile-industry veteran who used to run handheld device company Psion and cell-phone operating-system vendor Symbian, which he left in 2002. His idea for AQA flashed a year ago at Lord's cricket ground in London. While England was playing South Africa, Myers was struggling with a crossword puzzle that wanted four letters for a herring. "I sent a text to someone and got my answer [shad]," he says. "I thought, This is neat-let's press...
...Britain, type in your query as a text message and for $1.80 a new company called AQA will text you back your answer. AQA, which stands for "any question answered," is the London-based brainchild of Colly Myers, a mobile-industry veteran who used to run handheld-device company Psion and cell-phone operating-system vendor Symbian, which he left in 2002. His idea for AQA flashed a year ago at Lord's cricket ground in London. While England was playing South Africa, Myers was struggling with a crossword puzzle that wanted four letters for a herring. "I sent...
...Quite a change from Christensen's early career, when he worked first at Britain's Psion, once a leading provider of handheld computing devices. Then he co-founded Symbian, a joint venture involving Nokia, Ericsson, Motorola, Matsushita and Psion, which still has a shot at being the dominant operating system for so-called smart phones...
...computers, especially in the rapidly growing market for handheld devices like mobile phones and personal digital assistants. Because Opera is so compact the firm is touting it as the browser of choice for small Internet-enabled gadgets. Opera is now installed in handheld personal assistants made by Britain's Psion and in Ericsson's cordless Webscreen H610. Since the browser comes as part of the core software on these devices, the company gets paid by the manufacturer, not the user...
...catch up with Palm's dominant OS--the Windows of the handheld world. Early evaluations of Microsoft's Pocket PC say it's good but not likely to be the "Palm killer" some were expecting. There's also a joint venture of the software firm Psion, Nokia, Ericsson, Japan's Matsushita and Motorola called Symbian that was designed to keep Microsoft at bay. Although there have been some cracks in the alliance--Ericsson has said it will put a Microsoft browser in its phones--Symbian will probably remain a counterweight to Gates & Co. Also crimping Microsoft's plans: AOL, whose...