Action Engine Software to Enable Enhanced Enterprise Applications for Next-Generation Mobile Devices Using TI's OMAP Processors.Business Editors/Technology Writers REDMOND, Wash.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 29, 2002 Action Engine Corporation today announced that it is collaborating with Texas Instruments See TI. (company) Texas Instruments - (TI) A US electronics company. A TI engineer, Jack Kilby invented the integrated circuit in 1958. Three TI employees left the company in 1982 to start Compaq. Incorporated (TI) (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange : TXN TXN Texas Instruments (stock symbol) TXN Transaction (databases) TXN Tunxi, China (Airport Code) TXN Tarxien (postal locality, Malta) ) to deliver Action Engine's Mobile Services Framework(TM) to provide enhanced informational, transactional and enterprise services on 2.5 and 3G mobile devices using TI's high-performance, power efficient OMAP OMAP Office of Medical Assistance Programs (Oregon Department of Human Services) OMAP Open Multimedia Applications Platform (Texas Instruments semiconductor operating system) wireless application processors. Using the Mobile Services Framework, wireless carriers, device OEMs, and system integrators can create compelling wireless data applications and services for both consumers and enterprise users. "Action Engine's client / server approach is an attractive solution for delivering advanced wireless data services on 2.5 and 3G wireless devices that use TI's high performance, ultra-low power OMAP application processors," said Paul Werp, worldwide director of marketing for TI's OMAP platform. "With the Mobile Services Framework running on TI's OMAP processors, mobile device users will have access to applications and services that take advantage of Action Engine's unique smart client/smart server architecture to improve their user experience." "Action Engine is excited to team with a leading provider of technology for mobile devices. We look forward to leveraging this relationship to better integrate our software into devices using TI's technology," said Craig Eisler, 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. and president of Action Engine Corporation. For manufacturers developing wireless devices for 2.5 and 3G networks, TI's OMAP processors deliver the optimal performance and power consumption required to rapidly deploy differentiated next-generation products. TI's OMAP processor platform is an open architecture that supports multiple high-level operating systems Operating systems can be categorized by technology, ownership, licensing, working state, usage, and by many other characteristics. In practice, many of these groupings may overlap. , allowing a broad range of application developers to write differentiated software for wireless handsets and PDAs. In addition, the OMAP processor platform offers a rich library of standard multimedia APIs and Media Engines, differentiating applications developed on the Action Engine framework with increased performance and functionality. In addition to Action Engine's collaboration with TI, Casio Computer Co., Ltd. (OTC OTC See: Over-the-counter. OTC See over-the-counter market (OTC). : CSIOY) is licensing Action Engine's Mobile Services Framework for the CASSIOPEIA family of PDAs. Action Engine also recently announced a ten-year licensing agreement with mmO2 (NAS (1) See network access server. (2) (Network Attached Storage) A specialized file server that connects to the network. A NAS device contains a slimmed-down operating system and a file system and processes only I/O requests by supporting the popular : MMO2) to integrate its framework across O2's full line of next-generation devices. About TI's OMAP Developer Network Action Engine is a member of TI's OMAP(TM) Developer Network, a group of software developers writing wireless applications for mobile Internet devices. OMAP developers enjoy a variety of tools and support to enable rapid application development for leading operating systems and programming languages plus the opportunity to collaborate with a range of developers designing applications such as multimedia, security, location based services, mobile commerce and gaming. OMAP developers also benefit from TI's fully-open OMAP platform, which has been selected by Nokia, Ericsson, Sony, Palm, Sendo, HTC HTC HTML (Hyper Text Markup Language) Component HTC High Tech Computer Corp (Taiwan, China) HTC Hennepin Technical College (Minnesota) HTC High-Throughput Computing and others for their 2.5 and 3G wireless devices. For more information about the OMAP Developer's Network, please visit http://www.ti.com/sc/omapdevelopers. About Action Engine Action Engine's Mobile Services Framework(TM) enables informational, transactional and enterprise services across wireless data networks. Action Engine licenses the framework to major wireless carriers and enterprises (via system integrators) as a platform for development, delivery and maintenance of wireless applications. The framework is comprised of a smart client / smart server software system, and operates on any designated platform, including Pocket PC 2002, Microsoft Windows See Windows. (operating system) Microsoft Windows - Microsoft's proprietary window system and user interface software released in 1985 to run on top of MS-DOS. Widely criticised for being too slow (hence "Windoze", "Microsloth Windows") on the machines available then. CE, Palm OS, Windows 98/2000, Netscape Navigator, Internet Explorer and soon, RIM and 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. . Action Engine is located in Redmond, Washington. 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