Apeera Launches Managed Mobile Peer-to-Peer Application Sharing; Promotes Sharing of Applications Between Mobile Users by Empowering Operators to Control Distribution.Business Editors/High Tech Writers PARIS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 12, 2002 Apeera, Inc. today announces a new solution for mobile network operators which enables mobile phone users to share applications such as games, pictures, or personal files with friends and colleagues via their handset The part of the telephone that contains the speaker and the microphone. On a desktop phone, the part you hold in your hand is the handset. On a cellphone, the entire phone is the handset. See multihandset cordless and headset. . Apeera's application management system provides an innovative way for operators to manage, distribute and offer applications on remote devices. With person-to-person communication providing the greatest volume of traffic via mobile handsets, operators are seeking additional services to exploit the new features and technologies incorporated in new mobile devices. With Apeera's solution, applications and files are stored on a personal repository (1) A database of information about applications software that includes author, data elements, inputs, processes, outputs and interrelationships. A repository is used in a CASE or application development system in order to identify objects and business rules for reuse. , managed and hosted by the operator, where the user can manage their files either through an interface on their handset or an internet portal. Removing the need to store these files on the handset provides an infinite storage `cabinet' that is personal to each individual user. Bruno Suard, chief executive officer of Apeera, commented, "Mobile users are notoriously fickle fick·le adj. Characterized by erratic changeableness or instability, especially with regard to affections or attachments; capricious. [Middle English fikel, from Old English ficol, and operators have been struggling to find ways of attracting new customers and retaining existing ones. As such, being able to differentiate their offering with innovative new services, while at the same time increasing revenue opportunities, is key to their future success, and this is exactly what Apeera is proposing with our Managed Peer-to-Peer Sharing See peer-to-peer network. solution." The Apeera solution can be applied to a variety of existing services in the mobile marketplace. Applications such as mobile games and files such as picture libraries and ringtones can be distributed from user to user at the push of a button. Operators can apply a variety of revenue models to the sharing of these files, mainly through the increase in traffic through the network and in services being utilised. The Apeera solution provides a tool for operators to reduce the entry barriers for new applications and facilitate the acceptance and usage of new services. The operator retains full visibility of distribution and file sharing Copying files from one computer to another. See peer-to-peer network, file sharing protocol and file and printer sharing. between users, enabling them to charge effectively for the transaction. Suard continues, "Operators are not looking for Looking for In the context of general equities, this describing a buy interest in which a dealer is asked to offer stock, often involving a capital commitment. Antithesis of in touch with. the killer application Killer Application Killer application or "killer app" is a buzzword that describes a software application that surpasses all of its competitors. Notes: The term is sometimes used to describe a type of software. , they are searching for the killer revenue model." For further information, please visit, www.apeera.com |
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