AirMedia and TIBCO announce AirMedia Extensions for wireless push computing.BELLEVUE, Wash.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 24, 1997-- Wireless Technology Extends Push to Unconnected Computers -- Remote PCs, Mobile Notebooks and Handheld Devices AirMedia, Inc. and TIBCO Software Tibco Software Inc. is a software company, with headquarters in Palo Alto, California. Tibco sells business process management and business integration software. History Vivek Ranadive founded the company as Teknekron Software Systems (TSS) in 1985. Inc. announced today a strategic licensing and development agreement to deliver the wireless broadcast utility of AirMedia's Internet technology to users of TIBCO's event-driven, real-time information delivery software products. The announcement was made at the Internet Explorer Microsoft's Web browser, which comes with Windows starting with Windows 98. Commonly called "IE," versions for Mac and Unix are also available. Internet Explorer is the most widely used Web browser on the market. It has also been the browser engine in AOL's Internet access software. 4.0 Reviewers Workshop, sponsored by mutual partner Microsoft, where the integration of the new technologies was demonstrated to representatives of the PC industry, Internet Service Providers Internet service provider (ISP) Company that provides Internet connections and services to individuals and organizations. For a monthly fee, ISPs provide computer users with a connection to their site (see data transmission), as well as a log-in name and password. , content partners and the international press. The new AirMedia/TIBCO products are scheduled to ship this summer. AirMedia Extensions will provide wireless broadcasts, using national, ground and satellite-based wireless networks, to extend the reach of TIB-enabled networks to unconnected or occasionally- connected devices including dial-up desktops, mobile notebooks and handheld computing devices. The TIB See NIST binary. (The Information Bus) software platform actively pushes information out over the network the instant new information, such as a stock price changes, news headlines or inventory levels, becomes available. Over the past decade, TIBCO's software has become the standard method of "pushing" information in several industries, including finance, where information on more than $2 trillion in financial transactions flows through TIBCO software in real-time each day. With AirMedia Extensions for the TIB, it is possible to extend the reach of The Information Bus to unconnected computing devices or software applications, delivering real-time, event-driven wireless publishing and subscribing of information traveling on a TIB-enabled network through an apparently persistent wireless connection. These computers and applications see the arriving alerts and information as subscribable, multicast messages accessible by an infinite number infinite number a number so large as to be uncountable. Represented by 8, frequently obtained by 'dividing' by zero. of subscribers, exactly as they would if connected via a wire. The integration supports a wide class of new users including: -- Sales and field-personnel traveling with laptop or WinCE computers -- Telecommuters working at home or outside the network firewall in small offices -- Customers who need real-time updates of product and delivery schedules -- Small vendors who need timely notifications of new or changing orders -- Traders dependent on real-time information who are not at a trading desk Trading Desk A desk where transactions for buying and selling securities occur. Trading desks can be found in most organizations (banks, finance companies, etc.) involved in trading investment instruments such as equities, fixed-income securities, futures, commodities and foreign -- Small branch offices that may not be connected to the corporate network -- Users seeking late-breaking business, financial, and sporting news -- Unmanned multimedia kiosk-PCs Under terms of the agreement, the companies will enter into a cross-license of their technologies. AirMedia will license and embed TIBCO TIBCO The Information Bus Company technology for multicast delivery of real-time information in its servers, client software and special purpose AirMedia Internet Antenna wireless receivers which it designs for private label manufacture by large PC and peripheral providers. TIBCO will also license AirMedia's wireless broadcast technology and will make the AirMedia Extensions for TIB solution available through existing sales channels as an adapter to the TIB middleware platform. As part of the arrangement, TIBCO will make AirMedia's Wireless Development Kit (WDK WDK Windows Driver Kit (Microsoft Operating Systems) WDK Web Development Kit WDK We Don't Know WDK Wirtschaftsverband der Deutschen Kautschukindustrie eV (Association of the German Rubber Industrie) ) available to TIBCO customers who wish to incorporate wireless delivery into their software applications. The implementation consists of an AirMedia Wireless Gateway Server (WGS WGS World Geodetic System WGS Whole Genome Shotgun (DNA sequencing method) WGS Water-Gas Shift WGS Wideband Global SATCOM WGS Wideband Gapfiller Satellite WGS World Geodetic Survey (less common) ) installed on the WAN which expedites selected subscriptions from the TIB through wireless networks to AirMedia Internet Antenna-equipped computers and handheld devices. "This is a logical combination of companies and technologies," said John Payne, AirMedia president. "TIBCO is the world leader in mission-critical information delivery solutions. As the only two companies in the industry truly pushing real-time, event-driven news, alerts and notifications without dependence on periodic pulls from the server for scheduled updates, we can add tremendous value for any customer with real-time information needs and a broadly dispersed base of users." "TIBCO's TIB software platform has enjoyed tremendous success in actively pushing information out over private networks over the last decade in a number of industries, most notably in finance," said Vivek Ranadive, TIBCO chairman and chief executive officer. "Wireless delivery of rapidly changing business events and information enables us to deliver a new level of service to our customers." About TIBCO TIBCO pioneered push computing more than 10 years ago. Its software is now the de facto standard Hardware or software that is widely used, but not endorsed by a standards organization. Contrast with de jure standard. de facto standard - A widespread consensus on a particular product or protocol which has not been ratified by any official standards body, such as ISO, for enterprise-wide push computing in the finance, semiconductor manufacturing and other industries. In the past six months, more than two dozen companies have agreed to use TIBCO software for Internet/Intranet applications. In addition to AirMedia, companies that have announced alliances with TIBCO include: IBM (International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY, www.ibm.com) The world's largest computer company. IBM's product lines include the S/390 mainframes (zSeries), AS/400 midrange business systems (iSeries), RS/6000 workstations and servers (pSeries), Intel-based servers (xSeries) , Cisco Systems “Cisco” redirects here. For other uses, see Cisco (disambiguation). Cisco System,Inc. (NASDAQ: CSCO, HKSE: 4333 ) is an American multinational corporation with 54,000 employees and annual revenue of US $28.48 billion as of 2006. , 3Com, Microsoft, Oracle, Informix, BackWeb, Diffusion, and Verisign. TIBCO is an international market leader and pioneer in network software tools for building software applications that provide event-driven, real-time information exchange throughout the enterprise. The company developed and patented subject-based publish/subscribe technologies that allow for interapplication communications across heterogeneous computing environments. Based in Palo Alto, California “Palo Alto” redirects here. For other uses, see Palo Alto (disambiguation). Palo Alto (IPA: /ˌpæloʊˈʔæltoʊ/, from Spanish: palo: "stick" and alto: "high", i.e. , TIBCO Software Inc. is majority-owned by Reuters Holdings PLC, one of the world's largest news and information companies. For more information, contact TIBCO at 415/846-5000, or on the World Wide Web at http://www.tibco.com About AirMedia AirMedia, Inc. develops and markets leading-edge wireless communications wireless communications System using radio-frequency, infrared, microwave, or other types of electromagnetic or acoustic waves in place of wires, cables, or fibre optics to transmit signals or data. and push technology products that merge computing, the Internet and online services. The company delivers its products through branded, OEM (Original Equipment Manufacturer) The rebranding of equipment and selling it. The term initially referred to the company that made the products (the "original" manufacturer), but eventually became widely used to refer to the organization that buys the products and integrations with leading PC and peripheral manufacturers. AirMedia further adds value by integrating its wireless information delivery networks with products from a variety of partners in the push market space, including Microsoft (NASDAQ NASDAQ in full National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations U.S. market for over-the-counter securities. Established in 1971 by the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD), NASDAQ is an automated quotation system that reports on : MSFT MSFT Microsoft (stock symbol) MSFT Movimento Sociale Fiamma Tricolore (Italy) MSFT Multi-Stage Fitness Test MSFT Master of Science in Family Therapy MSFT Macalester Students for Fair Trade ), TIBCO and BackWeb Technologies, Inc., to deliver specialized solutions for bridging the gap from the Internet and corporate intranets to occasionally connected PCs. The company has been named by Microsoft as one of three Premiere ISVs for the unique value provided by its information delivery technology to Microsoft's Internet Explorer 4.0 and the Active Desktop. AirMedia Live was awarded the prestigious Editors' Choice Awards for push technology by PC Magazine and Internet User and was honored as a Premiere Product at InfoWorld's highly respected Demo '96 conference. AirMedia is a privately held company privately held company A firm whose shares are held within a relatively small circle of owners and are not traded publicly. , with offices in Newport Beach, CA and 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 , NY. The company also provides software solutions for paging, broadband and narrowband personal communications systems (PCS) and digital cellular networks through its Notify Products Group. More information is available at www.airmedia.com. If you are interested in additional information on AirMedia, please visit the AirMedia Web site at www.airmedia.com, or call 1-800-AIR-MEDIA (1-800-247-6334). If you are interested in additional information on TIBCO, please visit the TIBCO Web site at http://www.tibco.com, or call 415/846-5000. AirMedia, AirMedia Live and Ex Machina are trademarks or registered trademarks of AirMedia, Inc. AirMedia, Inc. was formerly known as Ex Machina, Inc. All other trademarks and brand names are properties of their respective owners. CONTACT: AirMedia, Inc. Sandra Sick 714-737-5410 x251 sandras@corp.airmedia.com Technology Solutions, Inc. Patricia Mozzillo 212-696-2000 x252 pmozzillo@tsipr.com TIBCO Software Inc. Kathleen Farmer 415-846-5110 kfarmer@tibco.com |
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