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...telephony is even making inroads into the wireless industry. For now, most hospitals ban cell-phone use in patient areas because the phones can produce electromagnetic radiation that interferes with hospital monitors. That has forced patients and nurses to rely on archaic paging systems. Evanston Northwestern Healthcare in Evanston, Ill., recently decided to begin using a voice-over-IP-enabled device from Symbol Technologies of Holtsville, N.Y., on wireless networks in its three hospitals. The device, which combines PDA functions with voice, offers several benefits: it doesn't suffer from interference, as cell phones do; it lets patients connect directly...
...story is complete without IBM or Microsoft, rest assured that both companies are muscling in on the competition to provide a platform for application development around IP telephony--IBM through its Lotus Instant Messaging and Web Conferencing product, and Microsoft through Windows XP on the desktop, Windows CE for wireless and its Windows and Live Communications Servers. Many analysts believe that when the dust clears, VOIP hardware will become a commodity, made by a firm like Dell, while a few communications companies will have their hand in the software pie--and that Microsoft and IBM may be calling the shots...