Avvenu Receives Mobile Technology Award.PALO ALTO Palo Alto, city, California Palo Alto (păl`ō ăl`tō), city (1990 pop. 55,900), Santa Clara co., W Calif.; inc. 1894. Although primarily residential, Palo Alto has aerospace, electronics, and advanced research industries. , Calif. -- Avvenu today announced that its new remote access and sharing service received the Best of Mobile Technology Award at this week's Mobile Technology conference held in Indian Wells, California Indian Wells is a city in Riverside County, California, in the Coachella Valley (Palm Springs area), in between Palm Desert and La Quinta. As of the 2000 census, the city population was 3,816. It has the highest proportion of millionaires of any city in the United States. , where wireless industry leaders gathered to see the latest and greatest in mobile computing and wireless data communications technologies. Out of the 35 new companies demonstrating their wares, Avvenu was chosen by attendees as having the most promising mobile technology at the conference. "Each year attendees choose the most exciting technology for the Best of Mobile Technology Award," said J. Gerry Purdy, Ph.D., principal analyst at MobileTrax, producers of the Mobile Technology conference. "This year Avvenu made the biggest impression with its remote access technology that has the power to transform the mobile computing experience by making a mobile device, such as a smart phone or PDA (Personal Digital Assistant) A handheld computer for managing contacts, appointments and tasks. It typically includes a name and address database, calendar, to-do list and note taker, which are the functions in a personal information manager (see PIM). , a true computing platform." Avvenu is a free service that lets business users and consumers securely access their office and home computers directly from their web-enabled mobile device or laptop computer. In addition to accessing their own content, Avvenu users can quickly and securely share access to their content with colleagues, friends and family. Avvenu users can securely access important documents when traveling, share pictures while still on vacation or distribute large files to colleagues -- in seconds. Earlier this week Avvenu announced a powerful new feature that lets users search their desktop computer from any web-enabled mobile device using Google Desktop Search See Google Desktop. . While Avvenu offers its service directly to consumers, the company is also working with major corporations to enable them to deliver this capability to their customers. Recently, Avvenu announced that the service was specifically optimized for Palm (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 :PALM) devices, including the Palm(R) Treo(TM) 650 smartphone, the LifeDrive(TM) mobile manager, and the new Palm TX handheld with affordable Wi-Fi connectivity. The service gives Palm customers fast access to their files, folders and photos directly from their Palm devices. Avvenu also recently announced integrated support for Adobe's (NASDAQ:ADBE ADBE Adobe Systems, Inc. (stock symbol) ) Photoshop(R) Album Starter Edition 3.0 and Photoshop Elements 4.0, and Motorola (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange :MOT) announced it will release a service later this year based on Avvenu technology. The service will allow Motorola customers to easily view, save and share photos between mobile phones and PC's. Avvenu is available free at www.avvenu.com. About MobileTrax MobileTrax, LLC (Logical Link Control) See "LANs" under data link protocol. LLC - Logical Link Control is a Silicon Valley-based, professional services firm that focuses on the mobile computing and wireless data communications markets. MobileTrax provides market research, executive conferences and consulting services regarding enterprise and consumer markets. MobileTrax produces two industry events each year: Mobile Showcase for enterprise IT decision makers and Mobile Technology for systems integrators and wireless carriers. MobileTrax also publishes Inside Mobile and Wireless, an industry newsletter that's published on the first and third Wednesday's of each month. MobileTrax is headed by J. Gerry Purdy, Ph.D., a globally recognized authority on mobile computing and wireless data communications. For more information, visit www.mobiletrax.com. About Avvenu Avvenu's unique remote access and sharing technology gives users unobstructed access to their most important content from a web-enabled mobile device anytime and anywhere they have wireless access. The Avvenu service is based on the company's patent-pending technology in media routing and managed peer-to-peer content access and distribution. Avvenu, based in Palo Alto, California “Palo Alto” redirects here. For other uses, see Palo Alto (disambiguation). Palo Alto (IPA: /ˌpæloʊˈʔæltoʊ/, from Spanish: palo: "stick" and alto: "high", i.e. , is a privately held company privately held company A firm whose shares are held within a relatively small circle of owners and are not traded publicly. with venture funding provided by Charles River Ventures, Worldview world·view n. In both senses also called Weltanschauung. 1. The overall perspective from which one sees and interprets the world. 2. A collection of beliefs about life and the universe held by an individual or a group. Technology Partners, and Motorola Ventures. For more information visit www.avvenu.com. Avvenu is a trademark of Avvenu, Inc. All other brand and product names are or may be trademarks of their respective owners. |
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