Air2Web Announces Support for QUALCOMM's BREW Platform; Air2Web Demos BREW-Based Applications at CTIA.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 2002 ATLANTA--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 18, 2002 Air2Web, the leading Mobile Internet Platform Provider, Monday announced that its Mobile Internet Platform now supports the Binary Runtime Environment for Wireless BREW is an application development platform created by Qualcomm for mobile phones. It was originally developed for CDMA handsets, but has since been ported to other air interfaces including GSM/GPRS, UMTS, and CDMA. (TM) (BREW(TM)) applications platform. Air2Web will be demonstrating wireless e-mail developed on the BREW platform (Airmail airmail, transport of mail by airplanes. Demonstration flights that showed the feasibility of carrying mail by air were made in Great Britain and in the United States in 1911. (TM)) and support for several other applications on this platform at CTIA in Orlando, March 18-20, 2002. Air2Web will be participating with QUALCOMM (booth #846), VeriSign (booth #3103), and in the Wireless Developers Pavilion (booth #5975L). Air2Web will be demonstrating applications running on the Sharp Z-800, as well as many other platforms including RIM, Palm, Win/CE, and 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 SMS (1) (Storage Management System) Software used to routinely back up and archive files. See HSM. (2) (Systems Management Server) Systems management software from Microsoft that runs on Windows NT Server. phones. Air2Web's Airmail application enables BREW-enabled handset users to wirelessly receive, compose, forward, reply and delete e-mail messages. It also incorporates offline support using a store-and-forward capability to manage e-mail offline. If a user is out of cell coverage or doesn't want to use airtime minutes while computing, then they can continue to work offline, save their work and easily synchronize later without losing any data. QUALCOMM's BREW platform is a thin application execution environment that provides an open, standard development platform for wireless devices. The BREW platform is part of a complete, open end-to-end solution for wireless applications development, device configuration, application distribution, and billing and payment. "Air2Web is already garnering significant interest in its new BREW-based e-mail application and the other BREW applications it currently has under development," said Sanjoy Malik, president and chief executive officer of Air2Web. "We see a lot of potential with the BREW platform, and believe it will significantly increase the use of wireless applications because it allows employees and customers to input data, conduct transactions, and transmit information much more effectively and efficiently." "Air2Web's e-mail solution is perfect for professionals on the go," said Gina Lombardi, senior vice president of marketing and product management, QUALCOMM Internet Services. "We are pleased that Air2Web is bringing their enterprise solution to the BREW platform to enable the exchange of information in a corporate environment." About Air2Web Air2Web's Mobile Internet Platform, which can be installed behind the customer's firewall or hosted by Air2Web, enables customers to create, deploy and deliver enterprise applications to their customers and employees using any digital wireless device including Short Message Service (SMS) and Web-enabled phones, personal digital devices (PDAs), and pagers. To date, Air2Web has more than 65 production deployments with blue-chip customers providing wirelessly enabled financial applications, critical field force applications, customer relationship management, M-commerce and subscription-based content services. Customers include companies such as Delta Employees Credit Union, ABN AMRO, BellSouth, Digital Insight, Corillian, ADC Telecommunications, Lexmark International, Nortel, UPS, Holiday Inn, Intercontinental and Crowne Plaza hotels, the Weather Channel, CBS (Cell Broadcast Service) See cell broadcast. SportsLine, and other leading finance, travel & hospitality, media & entertainment, health care, retail, and transportation companies. Air2Web recently closed a round of $20 million Series C funding. The investors participating in this latest round of funding include CDP CDP (cytidine diphosphate): see cytosine. (1) (Certificate in Data Processing) An earlier award for the successful completion of an examination in hardware, software, systems analysis, programming, management and accounting, Capital-Technology Ventures, member of CDP Capital; BellSouth (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange : BLS See Bureau of Labor Statistics. ); Nextel Ventures; VeriSign Inc. (Nasdaq: VRSN VRSN Verisign, Inc. (stock abbreviation, AMEX) VRSN Version Number (NEC) ); Mitsubishi; and Jay Chaudhry, chairman of Air2Web. For more information about Air2Web, please visit http://www.air2web.com. About QUALCOMM QUALCOMM Inc. (www.qualcomm.com) is a leader in developing and delivering innovative digital wireless communications products and services based on the company's CDMA (Code Division Multiple Access) A method for transmitting simultaneous signals over a shared portion of the spectrum. The foremost application of CDMA is the digital cellular phone technology from QUALCOMM that operates in the 800 MHz band and 1.9 GHz PCS band. digital technology. The company's business areas include CDMA chipsets and system software; technology licensing; the BREW applications platform; QChat(TM) push-to-talk technology; Eudora(R) e-mail software; digital cinema systems; and satellite-based systems including portions of the Globalstar(TM) system and wireless fleet management systems, OmniTRACS(R) and OmniExpress(R). QUALCOMM owns patents that are essential to all of the CDMA wireless telecommunications standards that have been adopted or proposed for adoption by standards-setting bodies worldwide. QUALCOMM has licensed its essential CDMA patent portfolio to more than 100 telecommunications equipment manufacturers worldwide. Headquartered in San Diego, QUALCOMM is included in the S&P 500 Index and is a 2001 FORTUNE 500(R) company traded on The Nasdaq Stock Market Nasdaq stock market The first electronic stock market listing over 5000 companies. The Nasdaq stock market comprises two separate markets, namely the Nasdaq National Market, which trades large, active securities and the Nasdaq Smallcap Market that trades emerging growth companies. (R) under the ticker symbol QCOM QCOM Qualcomm, Inc. (stock symbol) . |
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