AccuWeather Unveils New Premium Wireless Application at CTIA in Las Vegas; Builds on tremendous success of award-winning AccuWeather.com application.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers CTIA (1) See CompTIA. (2) (Cellular Telecommunications & Internet Association, Washington, DC, www.ctia.org, www.wow-com.com) A membership organization founded in 1984 that is involved with regulatory and public affairs issues in the wireless industry. Wireless IT and Entertainment 2003 LAS VEGAS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 22, 2003 AccuWeather, Inc., the world's leading commercial weather service, announced today its latest release of AccuWeather.com Premium(TM), an upgrade to their previous award-winning AccuWeather.com Wireless Application. This new application will be demonstrated at the Cellular Telecommunications and Internet Association (CTIA) Trade Show in Las Vegas Las Vegas (läs vā`gəs), city (1990 pop. 258,295), seat of Clark co., S Nev.; inc. 1911. It is the largest city in Nevada and the center of one of the fastest-growing urban areas in the United States. , NV (booth # 1221.) Built in both J2ME (Java 2 Platform, Micro Edition) A version of Java 2 for cellphones, PDAs and consumer appliances. J2ME uses the K Virtual Machine (KVM), a specialized Java interpreter for devices with limited memory. and Qualcomm's BREW(TM) technology, AccuWeather Premium builds on the AccuWeather.com Wireless Application's extensive list of features. These include AccuWeather's pinpointed 10-day local forecasts; detailed Hour-by-Hour(TM) Forecasts; snow, ice and rain forecasts; zoomable radar animations for local, metro, state and regional radars; and regional and national satellite imagery Satellite imagery consists of photographs of Earth or other planets made from artificial satellites. History The first satellite photographs of Earth were made August 14, 1959 by the US satellite Explorer 6. . AccuWeather.com Premium complements and enhances these features. The enhancements offer greater ease of use, additional forecast maps and valuable new tools, all tied together with a design that is more colorful and pleasing to the eye. Valuable New Tools Along with enhancing existing features, the update includes a variety of new tools that add even more value to the leading wireless application for weather. For example, the new version of the application contains the AccuPOP(TM) probability of precipitation. AccuPOP gives precipitation probabilities in three-hour increments for the next four days. AccuPOP also gives precipitation amounts at the next three hours, the next six hours, the next 12 hours, the next 24 hours, the next 48 hours and the next 96 hours. The updated application also includes severe weather information, including access to National Weather Service watches and warnings and updates on hurricanes in the Atlantic and Pacific from the AccuWeather.com Hurricane Center. Other new tools include health-related information, such as air quality, pollen type and UV indices, and sunrise and sunset Sunrise and Sunset are a pair of pegasi in the Dungeons & Dragons-based Forgotten Realms setting. The pair were rescued from giants by the moon elf Tarathiel a few years prior to 1370 DR, and after this they served as winged mounts for him and his partner, times. Greater Ease of Use AccuWeather.com Premium now makes it easier to find forecast information for multiple locations. When a user first downloads the application, it asks the user to enter a city or zip code zip code System of postal-zone codes (zip stands for “zone improvement plan”) introduced in the U.S. in 1963 to improve mail delivery and exploit electronic reading and sorting capabilities. . Previously, the user could only choose one location, but with the updated AccuWeather.com Premium application, a user can include multiple locations. This enables one to quickly and easily check the weather for other locations of interest, such as a city where the user frequently travels for business or the location of a parent's house. Also, users can access five-day forecasts for international cities, which is helpful for business travelers and vacation planning. Additional Forecast Maps Along with the many maps currently offered by AccuWeather.com Premium application, the new AccuWeather.com Premium Wireless Application provides a variety of information-packed maps. These include new precipitation forecast maps at a state or regional level for the next five days. The application will offer maps with predicted amounts of snow, ice and rain and chance of thunderstorms thunderstorms a storm characterized by thunder and lightning caused by strong rising air currents; identified as agents of animal disease because of their involvement causing (1) spasmodic colic; (2) lightning strike; (3) injuries of cattle acquired in stampedes initiated by storms. . "With the release of the AccuWeather.com Premium application, AccuWeather, the world's weather authority(TM), solidifies its role as the leader in wireless weather services," says Jim Candor can·dor n. 1. Frankness or sincerity of expression; openness. 2. Freedom from prejudice; impartiality. [Middle English, from Old French, from Latin, from , Senior Vice President of New Media for AccuWeather, Inc., said. "With its access to up-to-the-minute weather information in a user-friendly format, this application is a must-have for users of wireless devices." To learn more about the AccuWeather.com Premium application, visit http://wireless.accuweather.com or email at wireless_sales@accuweather.com About AccuWeather and AccuWeather.com AccuWeather, The World's Weather Authority(TM), provides a portfolio of products and services through the airwaves airwaves Noun, pl Informal radio waves used in radio and television broadcasting , via the Internet, in print, and behind the scenes that benefit hundreds of millions of people worldwide. AccuWeather services 40,000 paying customers in media, business, government and institutions, and millions more through AccuWeather.com. AccuWeather also provides content onto more than 600 Internet sites including CNN CNN or Cable News Network Subsidiary company of Turner Broadcasting Systems. It was created by Ted Turner in 1980 to present 24-hour live news broadcasts, using satellites to transmit reports from news bureaus around the world. Interactive, ABC's owned and operated stations, The Associated Press Associated Press: see news agency. Associated Press (AP) Cooperative news agency, the oldest and largest in the U.S. and long the largest in the world. (R), The Washington Post and The New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of Times. To speak with an AccuWeather meteorologist about breaking weather news, contact 814-235-8650. For additional information on AccuWeather and AccuWeather.com, please contact Emily DiTomo or Tony Defazio at 610-642-8253. |
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