Alltel Wireless offers Handmark(R) Pocket Express(TM) on smart phones.Service delivers news, sports, maps and more to wireless handsets LITTLE ROCK, Ark. & KANSAS CITY Kansas City, two adjacent cities of the same name, one (1990 pop. 149,767), seat of Wyandotte co., NE Kansas (inc. 1859), the other (1990 pop. 435,146), Clay, Jackson, and Platte counties, NW Mo. (inc. 1850). , Mo. -- Alltel Wireless (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange : AT), AmericaeIUs largest network, and Handmark, the leading on-device portal company, today announced that Pocket Express wireless services are available for Palm Powerede and Windows MobileE1/2-based smart devices and BlackBerry handheldse from Alltel. With totally free news, sports and weather, as well as two-week free access to 14 additional subscription services, Pocket Express offers Alltel customers an even greater range of productivity and convenience. eIuPocket Express makes an ideal companion to our portfolio of advanced mobile devices,eIN said Wade McGill, senior vice president of product management for Alltel Wireless. eIuOur smart device customers choose these specialty devices because of their wide enterprise acceptance and ability to deliver the information that is essential to their business and their daily lives. Pocket Express extends that functionality by providing customers with even more essential real-time information.eIN Pocket Express delivers news, sports, weather, stock quotes, street maps and turn-by-turn directions, movie reviews and show times, the New Oxford American dictionary The New Oxford American Dictionary (NOAD) is a single-volume dictionary of North American English by the American editors at the Oxford University Press. The latest second edition contains some 250,000 entries and definitions. , 411-directory search and more. The eIuExtraseIN section of the application even lets users browse and install new software applications directly to their phones so they can add functionality to their mobile devices from anywhere. With intuitive navigation, robust personalization features, and speed considerably faster than traditional mobile browsing, Pocket Express has emerged as the leading independent portal on the market. The service is currently available to Alltel customers at www.handmark.com/alltel and will be included with a host of new devices launching in the near future. eIuPocket Express is a great addition to a smart device,eIN said Douglas Edwards Douglas Edwards (July 14, 1917 — October 13, 1990) was America's first network news television anchor, anchoring CBS's first nightly news broadcast from 1948-1962, which was later to be titled CBS Evening News. , Handmark co-founder and chief marketing officer. eIuWith something for everyone, Pocket Express will become the preferred wireless portal A Web site that supports a user with a smartphone or alphanumeric pager. It may offer a variety of features, including providing a springboard to other (WAP based) wireless sites, the ability to select content to be pushed to the user's device as well as providing a point of entry for for Alltel customers using a wide array of converged wireless devices.eIN About Handmark Handmark is a global leader in the development and distribution of mobile content solutions. Pocket Expresse wireless on device portal service offers consumer-friendly access to news, reference and infotainment content on mobile phones as well as BlackBerry, Palm Treo, Motorola Q The Motorola Q is a Windows Mobile smartphone first announced in the Summer of 2005 as a thin device with similar styling to Motorola's immensely popular RAZR. Motorola in a partnership with Verizon Wireless released the Q on May 31, 2006[1]. and other Windows Mobile The Windows platform from Microsoft for handheld devices, including PDAs, cellphones and Portable Media Centers. See Pocket PC, Pocket PC Phone Edition, Smartphone and Portable Media Center. wireless handhelds. The company holds key mobile content distribution patents including Java-based push technology for wireless devices; has technology and distribution relationships with CNN International CNN International (CNNI) is an English language television network that carries news, current affairs and business programming world-wide. It is owned by Time Warner, and is affiliated and shares much content with CNN, which is limited to the United States and Canada. , The Associated Press Associated Press: see news agency. Associated Press (AP) Cooperative news agency, the oldest and largest in the U.S. and long the largest in the world. , Oxford University Press, Hasbro, MobiTV, TV Guide, JAMDAT Mobile and Zagat Survey as well as all major U.S. Mobile Operators; and dominates the market for mobile software sold through retail channels. Handmark has R&D facilities in Gothenburg, Sweden; Kansas City, Missouri Kansas City is the largest city in the state of Missouri. It encompasses parts of Jackson, Clay, Cass, and Platte counties and is the anchor city of the Kansas City Metropolitan Area, the second largest in Missouri, which includes counties in both Missouri and Kansas. ; and Dallas, Texas, with sales offices in Kansas City, San Francisco, Stockholm, and London. For more information, visit www.handmark.com. About Alltel Alltel is owner and operator of the nationeIUs largest wireless network and has more than 11 million wireless customers. Alltel, NYSE: AT www.alltel.com Handmark is a registered trademark, and Pocket Express, tools & toys for a mobile generation, the Handmark logo, and associated trade dress are trademarks of Handmark, Inc. All rights reserved. All other trademarks and/or registered trademarks are the property of their respective owners. |
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