Microsoft's Japanese unit will release on September 10 its InterConnect 2004 software that creates digital business cards that can be sent and received and subsequently updated via e-mail using Outlook 2003.

The software, developed initially for Japanese users only, will take at least some of the drudgery out of keeping tabs on contacts, Microsoft says. If the software is successful, it may be launched in other languages.

Designed to help remove the need to alter telephone numbers, e-mail addresses, and other contact details, the software can update a user's address book whenever contacted by another InterConnect 2004 user, says Tomohiro Inoue, senior product manager of Microsoft's Information Worker Business Group. Inoue demonstrated the software at a company event in Tokyo.
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Source : PCWorld