The SABRE group, IBM, and Nokia team to create traveler service for the enhanced mobile phone.

• The SABRE Group, IBM, and Nokia are working on a real-time, interactive service delivered via mobile phone utilizing the Wireless Application Protocol (WAP), a new open industry standard for mobile Internet - that will allow travelers to initiate flight changes and even receive updates from airlines anywhere, anytime. The service will combine SABRE Business Travel Solutions, the company's online corporate travel purchasing system, IBM e-business technologies, and the latest mobile communications technology and terminals from Nokia.

IBM and France Telecom in Partnership to Facilitate Internet Access

• Paris... October 6th 1998... IBM and France Telecom announced today that they have formed a partnership to revolutionize the way consumers and businesses access and use the Internet. Together, the two companies will build an open-standard software platform that will facilitate the development of a new generation of inexpensive devices, such as screen phones that will enable Internet access in a fraction of the time it takes using conventional personal computers.