Digital Rum (dR) has announced an extended Mobile Service that will be offered to all industry segments with applications in the retail, utilities, operator and leisure industries, where dR services are recognised today for Mobile CRM.
The service will allow Symbian OS and J2ME enabled devices to access Microsoft Office Live Communications Server systems through a dR implemented client, either pre-configured prior to purchase for direct install on the mobile device or provisioned over the air through a web interface.
Two different clients are available, and these support the Nokia Series 60 (Symbian OS) phones and all phones which support Java MIDP 2.0. There are more than 280 Java handset models available from 32 manufacturers, deployed over 93 carriers.
The clients give users access to their secure IM system and presence sharing capabilities on the move.The clients are based on the Microsoft Office Communicator 2005 desktop , but modified to take into account the different phone screen size, layout and functionality.
For users with legacy phones, dR provides an SMS extension to Live Communications Server, so that users who are not able to connect to Live Communications Server by any other channel can conduct conversations into the secure IM network via SMS from anywhere in the world.
Bob Pike, ceo at Digital Rum said “The initiative reinforces the long-standing efforts in the market to have secured mobile instant messaging that can potentially evolve to naturally replace short messaging in the IP world.”