Wendy Brewer

"Beam me up Scotty,"

Mobile phone makers L.M. Ericsson Telephone Co., Motorola Inc. and Nokia Corp. Thursday announced the creation of Wireless Village, a project to set universal specifications for mobile instant messaging.

Mobile phone manufacturer L.M. Ericsson Telephone Co. is in talks with Japanese electronics group Sony Corp. over a joint mobile phone venture.

Wired broadband solutions so tightly clutched to British Telecommunications PLC's breast might no longer be the future of home Internet access. One of Europe's leading research laboratories, the AT&T Corp. labs in Cambridge, England, has teamed up with Cambridge Broadband to test a pioneering broadband wireless network in the area.