Microsoft Inks Large Windows Mobile Deal
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Microsoft on Wednesday won its largest contract to date for smartphones using its Windows Mobile operating system. The U.S. Census Bureau has requested a half-million phones through manufacturer HTC that would be used for the 2010 Census. According to press reports, the deal was one of the largest ever covering smartphones.
The agency has made the move in order to speed up the data collection process. Previously, employees would digitize the paper forms filed out by the Census Bureau's workers in the field. The contract was part of a larger $600 million deal with Harris, a company that is working to automate the entire census-taking process.