AvantGo Embraces Macintosh Community; AvantGo Delivers Free Mobile Internet Service to Macintosh Users.Business Editors & High-Tech Writers SAN MATEO San Mateo (săn mətā`ō), city (1990 pop. 85,486), San Mateo co., W Calif., on San Francisco Bay; inc. 1894. It is a commercial and retail center with some high-technology manufacturing. San Mateo, Spanish for St. , Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 27, 2000 AvantGo, Inc., the authority in managing mobile information(tm), today announced that the AvantGo(tm) mobile Internet Refers to gaining access to the Internet using a lightweight, handheld device. See Mobile IP, PDA, smartphone and mobile TV. service is now widely available for the Apple Macintosh Apple Macintosh - Macintosh platform for free via download at www.avantgo.com. With this announcement, AvantGo's hundreds of thousands of users can freely access the web from Palm devices that synchronize See synchronization. with Macintosh computers. AvantGo now enables Macintosh users with Palm devices to access the entire web directly from their mobile devices or select from over 350 content channels that have been optimized for mobile devices. Optimized channels include up-to-date news, stock quotes, flight schedules, movie listings, restaurant reviews, maps, weather and much more from brand-name partners such as The 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 Times, Sony Online Entertainment Sony Online Entertainment (SOE) is a game development and game publishing division of Sony that is best known for creating massively multiplayer online games, including EverQuest, EverQuest II, PlanetSide, and Star Wars Galaxies , TheStreet.com, TRIP.com, Hollywood.com, Restaurant Row, MapQuest.com and The Weather Channel. Using a wireless, real-time connection or via desktop synchronization (1) See synchronous and synchronous transmission. (2) Ensuring that two sets of data are always the same. See data synchronization. (3) Keeping time-of-day clocks in two devices set to the same time. See NTP. , AvantGo users can access interactive and personalized content and applications directly from their Palm devices by becoming a registered AvantGo user. "Apple's roots are in the consumer market and AvantGo is an ideal service for this audience because we offer free access to all of the information on the web and deliver it into the palm of a mobile user's hand," said Mike Aufricht, general manager of the AvantGo Mobile Internet division. "Apple has always had a very enthusiastic user community and we anticipate that once Macintosh users try the service, they will quickly become AvantGo fans." Pricing, Availability and Requirements AvantGo is free of charge to users of Apple PowerPC-based computers, such as the iMac, PowerMac G3 and G4, PowerBook and the iBook. Available at www.avantgo.com, the service requires Palm's HotSync Manager for synchronizing synchronizing, n a technique that a therapist uses to coordinate his or her breath with that of the client; builds trust and establishes relationship. web-based content and applications to Apple computers. Once AvantGo has been installed on an individual's Palm device, the service can be used with any wireless or dialup modem. About AvantGo The authority in managing mobile information, AvantGo, Inc. wirelessly extends Internet, intranet and extranet applications to handheld computers based on the Palm and Windows CE (Windows Consumer Electronics) Microsoft's version of Windows for handheld devices and embedded systems that use x86, ARM, MIPS and SHx CPUs. Windows CE .NET superseded Windows CE 3.0. platforms, as well as Internet-enabled phones. With its core products, AvantGo Enterprise(TM) for Fortune 1000 companies and the AvantGo mobile Internet service for individuals on the go, the company helps organizations stay closer to their customers. Using AvantGo, today hundreds of thousands of individuals are accessing free, interactive and personalized content from more than 350 leading media providers and thousands of user-submitted sites. For more information, please visit the company's Web site at www.avantgo.com or call 650/638-3399. Note to Editors: AvantGo, AvantGo Enterprise, the AvantGo logo and The Authority in Managing Mobile Information are trademarks of AvantGo, Inc. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners. |
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