A long-term co-operative agreement has been concluded between Linq of Sweden, Europe's leading corporate portal specialist and Unisys, the global specialist in E-trade solutions. The details were revealed in connection with the GSM World Congress in Cannes. For Unisys, the agreement will enable the introduction of more than 100 mobile applications for corporate portals, based on the Swedish product. These would be launched within the next 18 months on to over 100 markets across the world. Such portal applications would be offered as "hosted" services. The LinqPortal product has also been chosen to in order to raise Unisys' own productivity in respect of its sales force, part of the group's total of 37 000 staff working in over 100 countries. Finally, this permits global distribution to the operators' market of the LinqPortal and LinqMobilizer products. Since their introduction just over a year ago, a hundred or so licences and installations have already been sold for these services. They have been shown to offer increased efficiency among mobile users, who can then obtain access to their parent company's intranet, central databases and programs via both fixed and mobile units.

The Coffee-to-go business is now arriving on the European continent, being successful in the US and the UK. Traditional café culture is adapting to busy everyday urban life causing an increase in demand for hot drink cups. One of the largest manufacturers in this field, Huhtamaki (brands: Polarcup, Chinet, Bibo), predicts that paper cups will account for one third of the total market by 2004. This is good news for Stora Enso which is currently the leading producer of cup stock in Europe. 

Ericsson's Microsoft Mobile Venture development company has established global co-operation with Linq, one of Europe's leading developers of software products for corporate portals.The two companies will jointly run common development projects. One example is the adaptation of the LinqPortal mobile portal solution to Ericsson's Moso technology.

Increased information handling productivity and security, particularly for colleagues on the road. These are some of the advantages stated by Columbitech, a specialist company in wire-less computer communication, and portal company Linq, when announcing the conclusion of a long-term co-operative agreement. By combining products from both companies, they want to create an internationally interesting and common markets.

Stockholm 7 February 2001 - Columbitech, the wireless technology company specialising in solutions for secure wireless data communications, announce their partnership agreement with Corporate Portal supplier LINQ. The companies intend to mutually develop and offer integrated solutions on the international market.

LINQ, a Swedish specialist in company portal technology, will by means of a partnership agreement with OnePage of America be able to offer its clients the Portal Builder program for collecting and formatting data. The company claims that this will enable company portals to be supplied more rapidly and efficiently with information. This area of technology is growing fast, and a current Merrill Lynch report estimates a potential market of up to US$ 3 billion in the near future alone.

The Swedish company Malmqvist High Climber is showing a new series of modular work platforms, MA 2000, at the Bauma Trade Fair in Germany. Extensible beams make it easy to adapt the platforms to the shape of the facade, which among other things simplifies work below balconies and at the corners. The maximum lifting capacity is just over two tons.

The first functional food said to offer a blood pressure lowering effect to be launched for the European market is being packed in a Stora Enso Ensobarr aluminium-free barrier coated board. Nordic dairy giant Valio has chosen Stora Enso's board for its new milk drink, Evolus.

A new development collaboration between the corporate portal specialist LINQ and the Belgian company Mobistar will make it possible for employees at user companies to communicate with the company's Microsoft Exchange Server via mobile telephones and other handheld units (PDAs), using GSM modems and the Pocket Office service based on LinqMobilizer. Reports suggest the solution is the first genuine WAP application for companies and means that e-mail, calendars, to-do lists and other Exchange functions can now be accessed on the move. The system is also GPRS-ready.

KPMG Consulting and the corporate portal company LINQ have entered into a collaborative partnership where KPMG is choosing to work with the LinqPortal software to achieve maximum productivity within large enterprises. Personally adapted digital workplaces will mean that it should be possible for companies to make better use of the skills their employees in this field possess and make the flow of information more efficient, i.e. Knowledge Management(KM).