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SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Microsoft Corp. and Verizon Wireless have formed a broad alliance to bring services and content from the Microsoft Network, including instant messaging , to Verizon's cell phone subscribers, the companies said on Thursday.

Over the longer term, both sides plan to co-develop smart phones, Pocket PCs and other mobile devices that run Windows, as well as wireless applications for corporations using the .NET Web services platform, they said.

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Despite their court filing, Kazaa BV's founders already appear to be licensing the FastTrack technology though another company. According to documents filed with federal regulators in the United States, a company called Blastoise--owned and operated by the Kazaa BV founders--has already licensed the FastTrack technology to a Los Angeles company named Brilliant Digital Entertainment.

According to those documents filed April 1, Blastoise -- operating under the name Joltid--licensed the FastTrack technology to a Brilliant Digital subsidiary called Altnet, whose software contains the core of a new peer-to-peer network. Blastoise also took a 49 percent stake in Altnet, according to the filing.

Sharman, which now provides the actual Kazaa file-swapping software, also plans to continue using the FastTrack technology. A Sharman representative said the company had been assured that the license to the technology would continue even if the Kazaa BV company goes under. Sharman, which has seen tens of millions of people download the Kazaa software since the company acquired it in February, has not yet been sued.