Tech Shout!

Microsoft has announced that it has entered into a licensing contract with mobile phone maker Sony Ericsson, which will allow the latter’s “smart� phones to connect to computers through Microsoft’s exchange software.

The deal, which helps the US software giant’s drive into the mobile telephone market, will allow a company’s employees to have access to their home base via the protocol Exchange ActivSync from the Stockholm-based company’s so-called “smart” mobile phone, which merges the functions of telephone, personal assistant and messaging service, found in Sony Ericsson’s models P990 and M600.