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Korean firms Samsung and LG Electronics have announced that they will participate with the U.S.-based Advanced Television Systems Committee’s effort to develop a standard for mobile-DTV broadcasting. Jong Woo Park, president of Samsung digital-media business, said: “Our collaboration on North American mobile-DTV standardization will help to accelerate the ATSC standardization of mobile-TV technology, which will benefit both consumers and broadcasters.” (Broadcasting & Cable 5/14)

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Microsoft is aiming to capture 40 percent of the smartphone market with Windows Mobile by the year 2012, an executive said Tuesday. (http://www.infoworld.com/article/08/05/13/Microsoft-eyes-40-percent-of-smartphone-market_1.html?source=NLC-MOBILEHARDWARE&cgd=2008-05-14 5/13)

A year after revealing a major upgrade of the BlackBerry Enterprise Server was underway, Research in Motion this week finally fleshed out what the new version will do, and put a delivery date on it.   (http://www.infoworld.com/article/08/05/14/RIM-details-features-in-BlackBerry-Enterprise-Server-5_1.html?source=NLC-MOBILEHARDWARE&cgd=2008-05-14 5/14)

Hearst, the publisher of such magazines as Cosmopolitan and Good Housekeeping, is announcing a deal with mobile technology provider ShopText to enable readers to make purchases, sign up for samples and enter sweepstakes through mobile phone text messages. (Iwantmedia 5/14, http://www.internetretailer.com/dailyNews.asp?id=26376 5/13)