AU-System and Seiko Instruments Inc. Collaborate on Interactive Watch.Business Editors STOCKHOLM, Sweden--Feb. 16, 2001--Watch manufacturer Seiko Instruments Seiko Instruments Inc. (セイコーインスツル株式会社 Inc. (SII SII Servicio de Impuestos Internos (Chile) SII Seiko Instruments, Inc. SII Strong Interest Inventory SII Standards Institution of Israel SII Securities and Investment Institute (UK) ), in collaboration with AU-System, has produced a new type of watch with fully interactive functions. SII Wrist Companion has a Bluetoothtm link which, via a mobile telephone, gives the user access to the Internet, the Internet, the, international computer network linking together thousands of individual networks at military and government agencies, educational institutions, nonprofit organizations, industrial and financial corporations of all sizes, and commercial enterprises possibility to send and receive SMS messages, store contact details and a new talking style. AU-System has enabled this interactivity by integrating a WAP (1) (Wireless Access Point) See access point. (2) (Wireless Application Protocol) A standard for providing cellular phones, pagers and other handheld devices with secure access to e-mail and text-based Web pages. browser, the AUS AUS abbr. Army of the United States WAP Browser, into the watch, and has also been responsible for the integration and supply of Bluetooth software, based on Ericsson's Bluetooth Host Stack, into the Wrist Companion. "We wanted to work with a European consultancy that was leading in mobile product technology. The fact that AU-System could provide us with both the WAP-browser and a deep knowledge in Bluetooth was very key to our choice," says Jun Hirotomi at Seiko Instruments Inc. "This is yet another example of the way we can collaborate with relevant suppliers and quickly get emerging technologies onto the market," says Christer Bjork, Business Area Manager at AU-System. Earlier this year the Wrist Companion was awarded TechTV's "Best of CES" in the telephony category at the Consumer Electronics Show 2001. The watch will be featured in AU-System's booth (C33/C39) at the annual 3GSM World Congress Exhibition on February 20-23, 2001 in Cannes, France. A picture of SII Wrist Companion can be downloaded from www.ausystem.com. BLUETOOTH is a trademark owned by Telefonaktiebolaget L M Ericsson, Sweden and licensed to AU-System. All other products and company names herein are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective holders. About AU-System AU-System is a leading Mobile Internet Refers to gaining access to the Internet using a lightweight, handheld device. See Mobile IP, PDA, smartphone and mobile TV. consultancy. Through the subsidiary SandbergTrygg, the company also offers integrated services In computer networking, IntServ or integrated services is an architecture that specifies the elements to guarantee quality of service (QoS) on networks. IntServ can for example be used to allow video and sound to reach the receiver without interruption. for marketing communications. Major clients include Ericsson, Telia, Scania, MeritaNordbanken and Singapore Telecom. AU-System was established in 1974 and currently employs more than 1000 staff in offices in Sweden, the U.K., Italy, the U.S., Thailand and Singapore. AU-System is listed on Attract40 of the OM Stockholm Exchange, under the symbol AUS. For more information, please visit www.ausystem.com. About Bluetooth The Bluetooth tm wireless technology is set to revolutionise the personal connectivity market by providing freedom from wired connections. It is a specification for a small form-factor, low-cost radio solution providing links between mobile computers, mobile phones and other portable and handheld devices, and connectivity to the Internet. The Bluetooth Special Interest Group The Bluetooth Special Interest Group (SIG) is the body that oversees the development of Bluetooth standards and the licensing of the Bluetooth technologies and trademarks to manufacturers. (SIG), comprising leaders in the telecommunications, computing and network industries, is driving development of the technology and bringing it to market. The Bluetooth SIG includes promoter companies 3Com, Ericsson, IBM (International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY, www.ibm.com) The world's largest computer company. IBM's product lines include the S/390 mainframes (zSeries), AS/400 midrange business systems (iSeries), RS/6000 workstations and servers (pSeries), Intel-based servers (xSeries) , Intel, Lucent, Microsoft, Motorola, Nokia and Toshiba, and more than 2000 associate members and adopter companies, including AU-System. ------------------------------------------------------------ This information was brought to you by BIT http://www.bit.se The following files are available for download: http://www.bit.se/bitonline/2001/02/16/20010216BIT00030/bit0001.doc http://www.bit.se/bitonline/2001/02/16/20010216BIT00030/bit0001.pdf |
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