Wired/Reuters: Psion Ices Out Microsoft

"If it works, it could banish the irritation for consumers of trying to keep neat and updated files, emails or address lists spread across a growing number of computers -- at work, at home, on a laptop or a mobile phone."

"Founding partners of the initiative include International Business Machines Corp and its Lotus subsidiary, cellphone makers Nokia and Motorola, Psion's palmtop rival Palm Inc and Starfish Software."

"The data synchronisation system, called SyncML, will be based on Extensible Markup Language or XML, a new advanced computer language developed from HTML, in which Internet pages are written."

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