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Telecom competitors find common ground at start-up

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Ericsson, Motorola, and Symbol Technologies, normally fierce competitors,

joined hands to provide start-up AirClic with $290 million to further develop

its a wireless barcode scanner and help market the devices that allow wireless

devices to scan bar codes and transmit that data to online databases on the

Internet.

AirClic also plans to make its technology available to consumers, but will

first target small businesses, which will be able to use the devices to order

supplies faster. "In basic terms, we're like a large switch that'll route

millions of requests every day for information driven off of scans," said

John Constantine, AirClic's vice president for marketing.

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