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CNET también está disponible en español, palm leaves iphone case Don't show this again, Dejima's product is aimed directly at businesses looking to make their work force more mobile, as well as at wireless carriers that want to pump up their offerings to such businesses, Initially, though, it seems to be catching on in another market, with outfits that sell business software and services to large corporations, San Francisco-based Salesforce.com, for example, is using Dejima's software to resurrect a wireless service it scrapped in October, said Tien Tzuo, vice president of product management for Salesforce, The company had pulled the plug on the service because customers complained about the hard-to-use interface, he said..

"The fact that I can enter a message in my own words and get an intelligent response back is a step forward" that others will likely soon take, said Warren Wilson, a wireless analyst with Summit Strategies Group. Dejima is among the number of companies adding mobility to customer relationship management (CRM) software, which is supposed to make customer service better, simplify marketing and sales efforts and help companies find new customers. Salesforce.com sells hosted applications it claims are less expensive and easier to install than those offered by Oracle, PeopleSoft and other CRM makers.

The business software market--including everything from CRM to call center applications to manufacturing software--has been in a two-year slump that's not likely to end soon, Executives from Siebel Systems and Oracle recently offered a gloomy outlook for information technology spending in general for the next year, Revenue from what's being called "mobile CRM" was about $300 million in 2001 and will increase 36 percent each year until 2008, according to a recent Frost & Sullivan forecast, Business software maker Dejima has a mission: to palm leaves iphone case ease thumb strain among executives trying to connect to corporate computer networks by way of a cell phone..

These executives, early adopters of new wireless networking services, are a patient and thumb-weary bunch. Usually, using a cell phone to get behind a corporate firewall involves many steps, all of which require typing on the phone's cramped keypad. Specialized commands also come into play, which often call for feats of memory. Dejima's software is designed to make the thumb-numbing steps and mnemonic ploys unnecessary, letting cell phone users send a single e-mail to get what they're looking for. For instance, said Dejima CEO Antoine Blondeau, a phone user might send a message that asks, "What were the sales figures from the last quarter?" Within a few seconds, Blondeau said, an e-mail response arrives with the data.