AvantGo Joins Motorola Web W/O Wires Alliance Program; AvantGo.com Now Easily Accessible from Motorola Web Phones.Business/Technology Editors 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. and HANNOVER, Germany--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 24, 2000 AvantGo, Inc., the authority in managing mobile information, today announced that it has joined the Motorola Web W/O w/o abbr. without Wires Alliance Program. The relationship will help enable individuals to easily access selected channels from AvantGo.com, the company's free interactive Internet service, from Motorola's TimePort(TM) P7389 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. tri-band, the TimePort(TM) P1088, the V. Series(TM) v2288 and the TalkAbout(TM) T2288 web phones. From a web-based application See Web application. , Motorola web phone users will be able to select AvantGo.com, and then with a simple press of a button, easily access optimized content from leading publishers on their handsets. Users of the TimePort P7389 GSM tri-band phone will be able to select AvantGo.com at a companion web site designed to optimize the end-user experience with their TimePort web phone. "We are pleased to have AvantGo among the charter members of our new alliance program, which is designed to make Internet sites easily accessible to our web phone customers," said Janiece Webb, senior vice president and general manager of Motorola's Personal Networks Group. "Individuals accessing AvantGo.com on their Motorola web phone will never have to worry about whether the site will be properly displayed on their device, whether the site has been customized for their personal needs or about ever having to type a long URL URL in full Uniform Resource Locator Address of a resource on the Internet. The resource can be any type of file stored on a server, such as a Web page, a text file, a graphics file, or an application program. address from their small phone keypads because all of these details have been handled for them." "AvantGo continues to be a driving force in the creation and adoption of the Mobile Internet Refers to gaining access to the Internet using a lightweight, handheld device. See Mobile IP, PDA, smartphone and mobile TV. . With this relationship, AvantGo.com users with Motorola equipment can more easily get timely information when they are on the go," said Mike Aufricht, vice president of AvantGo.com. "This is an important advancement because mobile users are demanding immediate, wireless access to breaking news, on-the-fly stock quotes, travel destination information, restaurant and movie listings, music news and much more, and AvantGo.com continues to be the solution that meets consumer needs." About Motorola Motorola, Inc. (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange : MOT) is a global leader in providing integrated communications solutions and embedded Inserted into. See embedded system. electronic solutions. Motorola's sales in 1999 were $30.9 billion. For more information about Motorola, visit the website at www.motorola.com. About AvantGo The authority in managing mobile information, AvantGo, Inc. wirelessly extends Internet, intranet and extranet applications to handheld computers A computing device that can be easily held in one hand while the other hand is used to operate it. The Palm devices are a popular example. See Palm, smartphone and palmtop. based on the Palm Computing(R) platform and Windows Powered Pocket PC platform, and Internet-enabled phones. With its core products, AvantGo Enterprise(TM) for Fortune 1000 companies and AvantGo.com for individuals on the go, the company helps organizations stay closer to their customers. Using AvantGo.com, today hundreds of thousands of individuals are accessing free, interactive and personalized per·son·al·ize tr.v. per·son·al·ized, per·son·al·iz·ing, per·son·al·iz·es 1. To take (a general remark or characterization) in a personal manner. 2. To attribute human or personal qualities to; personify. content from leading media providers on more than 350 optimized channels. For more information, please visit the company's Web site at www.avantgo.com or call 650-638-3399. Note to Editors: AvantGo, AvantGo.com, AvantGo Enterprise, the AvantGo logo and The Authority in Managing Mobile Information are trademarks of AvantGo, Inc. Motorola, TimePort, TalkAbout and V. Series are trademarks of Motorola, Inc. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners. |
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