Microsoft sets up mobile unit in Prague

Microsoft is setting up a European business support center for mobile technologies in the Czech Republic, the U.S.-based software company said on Tuesday.

Microsoft said the new center would be the company's first of its kind in the world and would provide services to leading European mobile phone providers and manufacturers of mobile equipment from January 2007.

"Should this model prove successful, we will follow it also in other regions on other continents," Jan Sebek, the center's newly-appointed director, told a news conference.
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