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Article: Dishing up a hosted solution. (Applications).(Motorola's Mobile Services Cafe ASP service)
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- Wireless Week
- Article date:
- April 1, 2002
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For years Motorola sold servers and software to wireless providers, installing its solutions on carrier networks.
These days, however, the manufacturer is going one better by offering a hosted solution called the Mobile Services Cafe, which enables wireless carriers to pick and choose from among a suite of applications and services that are tailored for specific market segments.
This smorgasbord approach enables carriers to bundle mobile applications from the Mobile Services Cafe as well as content designed by third-party vendors of their own choosing under a private-label wireless portal. Motorola says the application service provider model is a ...