Aether Develops Local News Gateway For Newspaper Association of America; Provides Connectivity and Hosting Services to Newly Launched Link To Local News Sources.Business Editors/Hi-Tech Writers OWINGS MILLS, Md.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--July 19, 2001 Aether aether: see ether, in physics and astronomy. Aether god of whole atmosphere. [Gk. Myth.: Jobes, 42] See : Air Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq: AETH), a leading provider of wireless data products and services, today announced that it has designed and implemented a news gateway, a wireless link to local news sources across the country, for the Newspaper Association of America The Newspaper Association of America is a United States trade association that represents the country's largest daily newspapers and provides services including market research, technology education and support, minority hiring and representing publishers in Washington, D.C. (NAA NAA Nomina Anatomica Avium. ). Hosted at Aether's network operations center See NOC. Network Operations Center - (NOC) A location from which the operation of a network or internet is monitored. Additionally, this center usually serves as a clearinghouse for connectivity problems and efforts to resolve those problems. in Owings Mills, Md., The Local News Gateway(TM) will be launched today during Connections(R), NAA's new media conference in Washington Washington, town, England Washington, town (1991 pop. 48,856), Sunderland metropolitan district, NE England. Washington was designated one of the new towns in 1964 to alleviate overpopulation in the Tyneside-Wearside area. , DC. Aether partnered with NAA to build the gateway to help newspapers explore how mobile users access wireless content. Through its engineering services, Aether designed the gateway to allow mobile device users to access wireless newspaper editions via a simple search screen. Using a browser-based phone, Palm handheld or Pocket PC device, users type in the first few letters of a city, state or newspaper name, and are connected either to the available wireless newspaper services from that location, or to a newspaper's auditotex phone number, which can also be dialed direct. The user will be directed to the closest edition available if no wireless newspaper exists in the search area. The gateway is driven by an extensive database of digital newspaper links maintained by NAA. During a six-month trial of the gateway, focus groups in Boston, Dallas, Minneapolis and Seattle will explore uses of the gateway. Verizon Wireless Cellco Partnership, doing business as Verizon Wireless, owns and operates the second largest wireless telecommunications network in the United States, based on total wireless customers. will be the directory's initial carrier partner throughout the trial period and its customers will have one-click access to the Local News Gateway. Access will also be available to any user with a wireless device by downloading downloading - download a Palm Query application from www.naa.org/edge/wireless.html. Phone users may access the gateway by typing www.lngaate.com into their phone browsers. "Aether is honored hon·or n. 1. High respect, as that shown for special merit; esteem: the honor shown to a Nobel laureate. 2. a. Good name; reputation. b. to be a part of NAA's initiative to explore how newspapers will provide wireless access to their readers, this is a very exciting step for the newspaper industry," said Tom Lupica, senior vice president, Wireless Services, Aether Systems. "This gateway will offer a unique tool essential to help establish wireless newspaper content, a central index for users to access content from multiple newspapers." "With the launch of this gateway, the newspaper industry has tackled the next frontier in information delivery. Now any newspaper that creates a wireless edition may now be accessed from a single site," said NAA President and Chief Executive Officer John F. Strum. "As they proved with the success of their online offerings, newspapers are demonstrating their ability to get relevant, timely and local news to readers. No matter the means of delivery, newspapers provide the content people seek." About Aether Systems Aether Systems helps enterprise customers improve efficiency and profitability by providing the services, software and support necessary to extend existing and future business applications from the desktop to any wireless device. Through Aether Fusion(TM), Aether's wireless enabling technology foundation, Aether develops, deploys and manages wireless solutions built on industry standard technology and backed by Aether's expertise in wireless hosting, software and services. Aether provides the business world with a single-source for reliable, scalable and cost effective wireless solutions. For more information, please visit www.aethersystems.com. About NAA NAA is a nonprofit organization Nonprofit Organization An association that is given tax-free status. Donations to a non-profit organization are often tax deductible as well. Notes: Examples of non-profit organizations are charities, hospitals and schools. representing the $59 billion newspaper industry and more than2 2,000 newspapers in the U.S. and Canada. Most NAA members are daily newspapers, accounting for 87 percent of the U.S. daily circulation. Headquartered in Tysons Corner (Vienna, Va.), the Association focuses on six key strategic priorities that affect the newspaper industry collectively: marketing, public policy, diversity, industry development, newspaper operations and readership read·er·ship n. 1. The readers of a publication considered as a group. 2. Chiefly British The office of a reader at a university. . Information about NAA and the industry may also be found at the Association's World Wide Web site on the Internet Internet Publicly accessible computer network connecting many smaller networks from around the world. It grew out of a U.S. Defense Department program called ARPANET (Advanced Research Projects Agency Network), established in 1969 with connections between computers at the www.naa.org. This press release includes forward-looking statements forward-looking statement A projected financial statement based on management expectations. A forward-looking statement involves risks with regard to the accuracy of assumptions underlying the projections. based on current expectations and projections about future events. These forward-looking statements are subject to a number of risks, uncertainties and assumptions about Aether that could cause actual results to differ materially from those in such forward-looking statements. Potential risks and uncertainties include, but are not limited to, the ability of Aether and NAA to successfully develop the products and services described in this release. These risks and other risk factors are described in Aether's report on Form 10-K Form 10-K A report required by the SEC from exchange-listed companies that provides for annual disclosure of certain financial information. Form 10-K See 10-K. with respect to the fiscal year ending December 31, 2000 and other documents filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Aether undertakes no obligation to update the forward-looking statements contained in this press release. |
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