AvantGo Unleashes AvantGo.com, the First Free Interactive Service for Mobile Device Users.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)--May 10, 1999-- New Personalized Service Puts the Power of the Web in the Palm of Your Hand AvantGo, Inc., the authority in managing mobile information, today introduced AvantGo.com, the first free interactive service to put the power of the Web in the palm of your hand. AvantGo.com gives mobile consumers and business people connectivity to personalized content and rich interactive applications with easy access to thousands of popular Web sites via their handheld computers - anywhere, any time. AvantGo.com includes more than 100 optimized Channels from respected industry partners, such as Bloomberg, Excite, FedEx, GO Network, Homestead Technologies This article or section needs sources or references that appear in reliable, third-party publications. Alone, primary sources and sources affiliated with the subject of this article are not sufficient for an accurate encyclopedia article. and ontheroad.com, off-line or wirelessly in real-time. (Editor's Note Editor's Note (foaled in 1993 in Kentucky) is an American thoroughbred Stallion racehorse. He was sired by 1992 U.S. Champion 2 YO Colt Forty Niner, who in turn was a son of Champion sire Mr. Prospector and out of the mare, Beware Of The Cat. Trained by D. : see also today's release entitled, "AvantGo.com Bolstered By Name Brand Handheld Makers, Wireless Providers and Content Publishers.") AvantGo.com offers individuals with active lifestyles access to important and continuously changing information on their handheld device in wireless mode or using a desktop synchronization cradle or kiosk. Whether they need a quick ticker symbol Ticker Symbol An arrangement of characters (usually letters) representing a particular security listed on an exchange or otherwise traded publicly. When a company issues securities to the public marketplace, it selects an available ticker symbol for its securities which investors look-up, to check a restaurant location or peek at the latest breaking news, free mobile access is now at their fingertips "Fingertips" is a 1963 number-one hit single recorded live by "Little" Stevie Wonder for Motown's Tamla label. Wonder's first hit single, "Fingertips" was the first live, non-studio recording to reach number-one on the Billboard Pop Singles chart in the United States. . "Fundamentally, AvantGo.com will change the way that information and applications are delivered to handhelds," said Felix Lin, AvantGo's CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. . "It is the first service of its kind to give mobile consumers and business people free connectivity to personalized content and rich interactive applications via their handheld computers. We are pleased to offer AvantGo.com to our more than 150,000 existing customers today, and invite all handheld enthusiasts to join our community of users." The AvantGo.com Service AvantGo.com is available today for users of Microsoft Windows See Windows. (operating system) Microsoft Windows - Microsoft's proprietary window system and user interface software released in 1985 to run on top of MS-DOS. Widely criticised for being too slow (hence "Windoze", "Microsloth Windows") on the machines available then. CE-based Handheld PCs and Palm-size PCs, the family of Palm OS connected organizers and smart phones, such as the Qualcomm PDQ (Parallel Data Query) A query optimized for massively parallel processors (MPPs). The software breaks down the query into pieces so that several parts of the database can be searched simultaneously. See SMP. phone. AvantGo.com software also comes bundled with handheld devices from Casio, Inc., IBM (International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY, www.ibm.com) The world's largest computer company. IBM's product lines include the S/390 mainframes (zSeries), AS/400 midrange business systems (iSeries), RS/6000 workstations and servers (pSeries), Intel-based servers (xSeries) Corp., Palm Computing and Philips Electronics. "By targeting Microsoft Windows CE personal companions, AvantGo.com's free, personal, Internet service lets users browse content while away from their desks, enabling them to view information wherever they need to," said Jonathan Roberts
Jonathan Roberts (August 16, 1771 – July 24, 1854) was an American farmer, wheelwright, and politician from Montgomery County, Pennsylvania. , general manager, Productivity Appliance Division, Microsoft Corp. "The new color Palm-size PCs enhance this experience by providing rich Internet content in full color, which makes it easier to view." Gabriom providing Palm Computing organizer users withffers a compelling solution for accessing the Wndustry partners and 1,000 user-submitted sites.ons Corp., Metricom, Inc., Novatel Wireless Novatel Wireless, Inc. (NASDAQ: NVTL) is a San Diego, California-based designer and manufacturer of wireless broadband access solutions. With European offices in United Kingdom, Germany, and France, Novatel Wireless owns 30 technology patents relating to wireless voice and and gned specifically for wireless devices. AvantGoing handheld devices," said Andy Willett, Direcprofessionals can have interactive, real-time access to personal, corporate and public information," stated Bable the use of handhelds beyond the enterprisee calendar or address book, AvantGo.com featureation access; while disconnected users queue rebile computer. AvantGo.com optimizes interaction time and device storage by managing all of the computing intensive activities on the Server before sending the content through the network to a handheld device. The device has only to manage display and interaction, providing high performance. Additionally, to protect an individual's privacy, AvantGo.com provides SSL (Secure Sockets Layer) The leading security protocol on the Internet. Developed by Netscape, SSL is widely used to do two things: to validate the identity of a Web site and to create an encrypted connection for sending credit card and other personal data. end-to-end security from Certicom. From the device, AvantGo.com authenticates either a hardware or software combination of log-on/passwords to assure access only by authorized users. "Certicom's ECC (1) (Error-Correcting Code) A type of memory that corrects errors on the fly. See ECC memory. (2) (Elliptic Curve Cryptography) A public key cryptography method that provides fast decryption and digital signature processing. technology continues to be the only viable solution for secure mobile device access to personalized content and rich interactive applications," said Rick Dalmazzi, president of Certicom. "With AvantGo.com and our technology, individuals can feel sure that the information they are getting is secure." Building Content and Hosted Applications for AvantGo.com Individuals who don't find exactly what they want from AvantGo's extensive Channel listing can build their own Channels because AvantGo.com can access any Web page and reformat (1) To change the record layout of a file or database. (2) To initialize a disk over again. it for delivery to mobile devices. AvantGo.com simply identifies what type of device an individual is using, and then delivers the Web pages for optimized viewing on that particular handheld device. Additionally, individuals can take their favorite Web sites and create personalized AvantGo.com Channels, updating a piece of, or an entire site every time they synchronize. Content and application providers can also take advantage of the AvantGo.com service to easily build and distribute content to mobile device users with PC or wireless access. Using simple design techniques and HTML HTML in full HyperText Markup Language Markup language derived from SGML that is used to prepare hypertext documents. Relatively easy for nonprogrammers to master, HTML is the language used for documents on the World Wide Web. tools, partners can quickly create Channels for delivery to a broad user base with handhelds and smart phones. "Infoseek is delighted to be pairing GO Network with AvantGo.com to provide users with a totally flexible, open solution, where they can obtain more personalized information," said Jim Morouse, vice president of marketing for Infoseek. "In the handheld space, we have found AvantGo.com provides the easiest development environment, covering both the disconnected and wireless user, and offers a flexible delivery environment with support for a broad range of platforms. The vision of GO Network is to provide Internet-related services to the broadest number of users to help them become self-reliant. AvantGo offers that kind of solution." Further, any corporation will soon be able to mobilize important applications and deliver them to key constituencies using AvantGo.com. By h60 Corporation with its Internet-based application to manage people and projects across a service organizatiique way for us to get package status tracking,er Services at FedEx. "This alliance also underscores our commitment to providing customers with important and useful information using innovative, Web-based applications." Extending AvantGo's Enterprise Solution to Consumers AvantGo.com is powered by AvantGo's Client, Server and Connect software. AvantGo Server is the backbone of AvantGo.com, while the AvantGo Client and AvantGo Connect applications can be downloaded for free from www.avantgo.com. Enabling universal remote access and delivering high-performance mobile transactions between handheld devices and any Internet accessible data, AvantGo Server is a sophisticated application and data delivery engine for handhelds. Further, AvantGo Server features a multi-threaded N-Server architecture which guarantees high performance and high availability even under large user loads, and can conduct transactions over on-line connections with cradles, kiosks, dialup or desktop modems or via a single batch synchronization with AvantGo.com. Used in conjunction with AvantGo.com, AvantGo Client is a software application for handheld computers that combines a highly efficient Web browser The program that serves as your front end to the Web on the Internet. In order to view a site, you type its address (URL) into the browser's Location field; for example, www.computerlanguage.com, and the home page of that site is downloaded to you. with fully interactive capabilities. Pricing and Availability AvantGo.com is available now, free of charge at www.avantgo.com or call 650/638-3399. About AvantGo The authority in managing mobile information, AvantGo, Inc. offers solutions for extending Web-enabled, enterprise and consumer applications to handheld computers such as those based on the Palm Computing (NASDAQ NASDAQ in full National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations U.S. market for over-the-counter securities. Established in 1971 by the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD), NASDAQ is an automated quotation system that reports on :COMS COMS 3Com Corporation (stock symbol) COMS Certified Orientation and Mobility Specialist COMS Continuous Opacity Monitoring Systems COMS City of Manchester Stadium (UK) ) and Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT MSFT Microsoft (stock symbol) MSFT Movimento Sociale Fiamma Tricolore (Italy) MSFT Multi-Stage Fitness Test MSFT Master of Science in Family Therapy MSFT Macalester Students for Fair Trade ) Windows CE platforms. The company recently launched AvantGo.com, a free service for accessing personalized Web content from leading partners. AvantGo also spearheaded the Mobile Application Link initiative, an open, industry standard for connecting mobile devices to server-based applications. For more information, please visit the company's Web site at www.avantgo.com or call 650/638-3399. AvantGo, AvantGo.com and the AvantGo logo are trademarks of AvantGo, Inc. 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