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Wireless messaging- Wackberry $500 Now, $600 Later
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SECTOR REPORT

Wireless messaging

Blackberry launch set

By Peter J. Howe and By D.C. Denison, Globe Staff, 11/18/2002

extel Communications is unveiling plans today for a unique version of the Blackberry wireless messaging unit that includes its ''direct connect'' walkie-talkie feature built in.

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Anticipating it could prove wildly popular when it officially goes on sale Dec. 2, Nextel is not being timid about pricing. The 6510 unit will initially be sold for $500, later to go up to $600, with unlimited monthly e-mail and Web browsing going for $50 in addition to a Nextel voice calling plan.

AT&T Wireless and T-Mobile are currently the only other cellphone companies to sell Blackberries. Besides the direct connect feature, Nextel's units allow people to talk right into the 3-by-4.5-inch unit, like a phone, instead of having to use a plug-in earpiece. Users can move a so-called SIM chip back and forth between the Blackberry and a regular Nextel phone to use the same phone number to make calls on both.

Nextel executive Bennett Rudomen said the company will stress that the units run on a nationwide Nextel network whose coverage subscribers may consider more reliable than other Blackberry networks such as data carrier Motient or AT&T's GPRS network.

Fewer than 350,000 Blackberries are in service in the United States, compared to more than 130 million cellphones. Nextel's base of 10 million subscribers, heavily skewed towards business users, could be a major launching pad for increased Blackberry sales.

SECURITY SOFTWARE

O KENA in Unisys deal

OKENA Inc., the Waltham-based developer of intrusion prevention software, is expected to announce today that Unisys, the information technology services and solutions company, will be integrating OKENA's StormWatch product into the Unisys Enterprise Server ES7000 high-performance server.

StormWatch is designed to prevent both known and unknown attacks.

Under the agreement, a new standalone StormWatch agent will be embedded in the ES7000's Server Sentinel management software. This agent will act independently to prevent attacks to the ES7000 service processor.

StormWatch, the cornerstone of OKENA's ongoing StormSystem enterprise security platform, allows customers to secure their host systems. An OKENA StormWatch agent will be embedded in the Unisys Server Sentinel software that is bundled with each new Unisys ES7000.

FUEL CELLS

V erizon eyes backup

In what could become a huge boost for the emerging fuel cell industry, phone giant Verizon Communications is taking a very serious look at using fuel cells to replace batteries for backup power at thousands of its telephone switching stations and even small roadside switching huts.

At Verizon's laboratories in Waltham, technicians are now running a fuel cell made by Aperion Energy Systems through a phalanx of tests. The unit, about the size and appearance of a dishwasher, takes hydrogen gas from a standard tank and flows it through a membrane that produces the special 48-volt direct current phone networks use. The only emission is water vapor.

For Verizon, which buys over $500 million a year worth of electricity, fuel cells could be an alternative to banks of batteries that have to be replaced every three to five years and specially handled as potential toxic waste and to loud, smelly diesel generators.

Small fuel cell versions might be configured for so-called remote terminals, chest-high roadside switching boxes, of which Verizon has 3,800 in Massachusetts alone.

Verizon spokesman Mark Marchand said last week that additional tests of fuel cells are planned in coming months at the Albany, N.Y., airport and a California Air Force base, and a decision to go ahead with them might come as soon as next year.

This story ran on page C3 of the Boston Globe on 11/18/2002.

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