Action Engine Announces Wireless Web Visionary as CTO.REDMOND, Wash. -- Shattering the mobile usability barrier, Action Engine Corporation, the mobile application platform leader, today announced the appointment of Ted Wugofski as chief technology officer. In this role, Wugofski will lead the technology strategy for the Action Engine Mobile Application Platform(TM) and serve as the touch point between the company's engineering organization and its wireless operator customers, solution partners and third party development community. "Ted is a true visionary in the mobile industry," said Scott G. Silk, president and CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. of Action Engine. "Ted brings a wealth of experience to Action Engine in making the dream of a mobile Internet Refers to gaining access to the Internet using a lightweight, handheld device. See Mobile IP, PDA, smartphone and mobile TV. a reality. Now he has joined our team to set the technical vision that will make rich mobile data services ubiquitous with wireless subscribers." Added Wugofski, "With Action Engine, I saw the opportunity to be part of a team that has pioneered a new user paradigm for experiencing mobile data services. The company's proven customer success, recent series of award announcements, launch of the turnkey Brand-n-Go(TM) solution and latest round of funding, speak to the momentum that they are building within the wireless industry as a whole." With over 14 patents and 15 years of technology leadership experience, Wugofski has been active in the development of the mobile Web, having authored and co-authored XHTML (EXtensible HTML) A markup language for Web pages from the W3C. XHTML combines HTML and XML into a single format (HTML 4.0 and XML 1.0). Like XML, XHTML can be extended with proprietary tags. Also like XML, XHTML must be coded more rigorously than HTML. , CSS (1) See Cascading Style Sheets. (2) (Content Scrambling System) The copy protection system applied to DVDs, which uses a 40-bit key to encrypt the movie. Mobile Profile and ECMAScript Compact Edition standards, as well as authoring several books on XHTML, 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. and XML XML in full Extensible Markup Language. Markup language developed to be a simplified and more structural version of SGML. It incorporates features of HTML (e.g., hypertext linking), but is designed to overcome some of HTML's limitations. . Prior to joining Action Engine, Wugofski developed technical and business strategy as the director of device products for Boingo Wireless Boingo redirects here. For the Hoodwinked character see Boingo (Hoodwinked). For the rock band, see Oingo Boingo. Boingo Wireless is a private American company that provides wireless communication services, specifically Wi-Fi. , a leading Wi-Fi public hot spot aggregator and service provider. Earlier, he served as chief technologist for the client product group at Openwave Systems, a leading independent provider of open software products. At Openwave, Wugofski was responsible for product management and marketing and for leading the transition from WML (Wireless Markup Language) A tag-based language used in the Wireless Application Protocol (WAP). WML is an XML document type allowing standard XML and HTML tools to be used to develop WML applications. It evolved from Openwave's HDML, but WML is not a superset of HDML. to XHTML, working with wireless operators, device manufacturers, and industry organizations to deliver the mobile Internet to consumers. Prior to Openwave, Wugofski served as chief architect at Gateway. Wugofski completed his Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering from the Illinois Institute of Technology Illinois Institute of Technology, in Chicago; coeducational; founded 1940 by a merger of Armour Institute of Technology (founded 1892) and Lewis Institute (1896). in Chicago, Illinois. About Action Engine Action Engine Corporation is the mobile application platform leader. The Action Engine Mobile Application Platform(TM) makes it possible for wireless customers to access rich content from the mobile Internet over 20x faster than with traditional browser-based solutions. By absorbing the complexities of deployment, Action Engine's Brand-n-Go(TM) turnkey solutions deliver an intuitive, responsive and personalized data services experience in unprecedented timeframes. The company's software solutions are deployed by global wireless operators that include Orange SA, mmO2 and SMART Communications, Inc. Founded in 2000, Action Engine is privately held with headquarters in Redmond, Washington. Additional information is available at www.actionengine.com. Action Engine Mobile Application Platform and Brand-n-Go are trademarks of Action Engine Corporation. All other products and brand names are trademarks of their respective owners. |
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