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AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - Nokia and Microsoft are almost giving away software to muscle into the wireless e-mail business now dominated by Research In Motion, the maker of the popular BlackBerry.

Around 1 percent of the world's 650 million corporate e-mail accounts are plugged into hardware and software that forwards incoming messages to a mobile device. More than half of those, about 3.65 million, use RIM's BlackBerry.

"Most of those 650 million will be mobilised within three years," said Scott Cooper, vice president for mobility solutions at Nokia's Enterprise Solutions group.

The reason for his optimism is that Nokia, like Microsoft, will practically give away wireless access to business e-mail.

Their new products may leave investors wondering how RIM will compete, rekindling memories of companies such as Netscape, which had to give away its Internet browser when Microsoft decided to do so.
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