Aspiro Invited to Address Top European Ministerial Conference in Portugal.Business Editors & High-Tech Writers STOCKHOLM, Sweden--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 13, 2000 Aspiro was invited to speak at the high level European Ministerial Done under the direction of a supervisor; not involving discretion or policymaking. Ministerial describes an act or a function that conforms to an instruction or a prescribed procedure. It connotes obedience. Conference on the Information and Knowledge Society held in Lisbon on April 10-11. During a special session, "Citizens with Special Needs," Erik Snabb, vice president of Aspiro Mobile TextPhone, presented and gave a live demonstration of the TextPhone, a text telephony Meaning "sound over distance," it refers to electronically transmitting the human voice. In the beginning, telephony dealt only with analog signals in the circuit-switched networks of the telephone companies. service that offers the deaf, heard of hearing and speech impaired the possibility to communicate via real-time text calls using mobile devices. Also invited to address the special closed session were Motorola, Microsoft and IBM Many people are too new to the computer industry to remember that IBM once occupied the lofty position that Microsoft currently enjoys. Today, it's a Microsoft versus The Rest of the World computer industry. Yesterday, it was IBM versus everybody else. as well as other important organizations and influential governmental bodies. "The conference shows quite clearly how important the European Commission European Commission, branch of the governing body of the European Union (EU) invested with executive and some legislative powers. Located in Brussels, Belgium, it was founded in 1967 when the three treaty organizations comprising what was then the European Community views the matter of people with disabilities being afforded the opportunity to join in the mobile telephony revolution and the crucial role we are playing to achieve that," says Snabb. The full results of the session are to be compiled in a report and submitted to a meeting of the European Commission in June. Aspiro Mobile TextPhone was first launched in Sweden in May 1998 through the Swedish operator Europolitan. Later that year it won the award Best Service of the Year for Disabled People by the Swedish Ombudsman ombudsman (äm`bədzmən) [Swed.,=agent or representative], public official appointed to deal with individual complaints against government acts. for Disabled People. Nokia also appointed Aspiro Mobile TextPhone Best Developer of the Year. In September 1999 the service was extended to include Europe, America and Asia. "In all that time the service has had no downtime The time during which a computer is not functioning due to hardware, operating system or application program failure. . Proof that it fulfills the highest standards of telephony," said Snabb in his presentation. The service attracted a great deal of interest, especially since it is not dependent on any one of the many different text telephony protocols used by European and global GSM (Global System for Mobile Communications) A digital cellular phone technology based on TDMA that is the predominant system in Europe, but also used worldwide. Developed in the 1980s, GSM was first deployed in seven European countries in 1992. network operators. "This means that with the right cooperation and perhaps political incentive there is no reason why Aspiro Mobile TextPhone Service could not be installed across Europe within a period some 6-10 months," says Snabb. For more information, please contact: Erik Snabb, vice president, Aspiro Mobile TextPhone, tel: +46 708 294571 or e-mail: erik.snabb@telesta.com About Aspiro Aspiro provides mobile applications and services promoting Life in Motion using cutting-edge knowledge and technologies. Aspiro offers operators, content providers and mobile organizations a wide range of solutions, from pre-packaged portal services to industry specific solutions. Telesta, Inc. developed the Mobile Textphone Service, and was acquired by Aspiro earlier this year. The U.S. headquarters for the business area Mobile Textphone is based in Andover, MA. Founded in 1998, Aspiro is today a world leader within Mobile Internet Refers to gaining access to the Internet using a lightweight, handheld device. See Mobile IP, PDA, smartphone and mobile TV. . The Scandinavian-based company has over 130 employees and offices in Sweden, Norway, Luxembourg and USA. Aspiro's business concept, organization and operations are based on many years of experience gained in the mobile telecommunications Communicating information, including data, text, pictures, voice and video over long distance. See communications. and IT industries. For further information about the Mobile TextPhone Service, please visit www.mobile.textphone.com or www.telesta.com. For further information about Aspiro, please visit www.aspiro.com Please visit http://www.bit.se for further information. The following files are available for download To receive a file transmitted over a network. In any communications session, "download" means receive, and "upload" means send. The download/upload often implies a big/little scenario, in which data is being downloaded from the "big" server into the "little" user's computer. : http://www.bit.se/bitonline/2000/04/13/20000413BIT01130/bit0001.doc http://www.bit.se/bitonline/2000/04/13/20000413BIT01130/bit0002.pdf |
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