Avvenu and Palm Give Business Professionals Remote Access to Work and Home PC Content.Avvenu "Access 'n Share" Service for Palm Foleo The Palm Foleo mobile companion was a Linux-based subnotebook announced by Palm Inc. on May 30, 2007 [2], and cancelled on September 4, 2007, that was intended as a companion device for all brands of smartphones, though it only supported Windows Mobile or Palm OS based Mobile Companion Enables Unmatched Mobility 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. & SUNNYVALE, Calif. -- Avvenu, provider of remote access and sharing services for personal digital content, and Palm, Inc. (Nasdaq:PALM) have created the Avvenu Access 'n Share service for the Palm[R] Foleo[TM] mobile companion. Access 'n Share enables Foleo users to remotely and easily access and share digital content stored on their work or home PCs, untethered Unattached to any data or power source by wire or fiber; in other words: wireless. Contrast with tethered. and over-the-air, including documents, photos, music and videos.(1) With the press of one button, the Palm Foleo mobile companion's large screen displays wireless email Wireless Email or Push E-mail for enterprises is an email solution for small handheld platforms that is secure and managed centrally by enterprise server. Wireless technology adoption has seen a dramatic increase over the past few years. , web pages, or office documents, making Avvenu's remote access and share capabilities a natural fit. A smartphone is great for finding quick bits of information or sending a brief response to an email, but there are times when a full-size keyboard and a big screen are preferred to view attachments, type longer emails, or to get a bigger-screen look at web pages and photos. Plus, Internet access See how to access the Internet. is available anywhere there is cell phone coverage, or when the Foleo is within range of a Wi-Fi hotspot.(1) With Foleo's instant on/off capability, light weight and small size, and 5-hour battery life, Palm expects the mobile companion to establish a new category of personal-computing products; and with Avvenu's Access 'n Share service, Foleo mobile companion users now have immediate access to their digital lives right 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. . Previously available for Palm Treo smartphones and PC/Mac web browsers The following is a list of web browsers. Historical Historically important browsers In order of release:
"Palm Foleo is a great way to display and edit documents and information available on a Palm Treo smartphone," said Richard French, chief executive officer for Avvenu. "Avvenu Access 'n Share completes the proposition by allowing Foleo users to remotely access and share files stored on their work or home personal computers, whenever they are connected to the Internet." By building the Foleo on an open Linux-based platform and publishing the tools developers might need, Palm hopes to establish a vibrant developer community to create new applications that extend the mobile companion's built-in capabilities. Avvenu Access 'n Share demonstrates the ease with which exciting technology and applications can be ported to the Palm Foleo mobile companion. "The combination of a Foleo, Treo and Avvenu Access 'n Share gives mobile professionals a direct route to access business-critical information without the worry of carrying everything with them," said Mark Bercow, senior vice president of business development for Palm, Inc. "And the Foleo's large screen and full-size keyboard is optimal for viewing and editing downloaded PowerPoint or Word documents." For more information on Avvenu Access 'n Share, please visit http://www.avvenu.com/products/access_share.php. For more information on the Foleo mobile companion, please visit www.palm.com/seefoleo. To sign up for notification about Foleo availability, please visit www.palm.com/foleonotify. Price and Availability Applications for the Foleo mobile companion will be sold separately. U.S. pricing and application availability will be announced in conjunction with Foleo this summer. About Avvenu Avvenu, Inc. provides consumers with remote access and sharing services, allowing anyone to access and share their photos, files and music stored on their computers, anytime, from anywhere. Avvenu services are based on patented technology in media routing and managed peer-to-peer content access and distribution. Avvenu 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. 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. , 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. Avvenu services are available via web-based download and partners with leading corporations to deliver its services. For more information, please visit: http://www.avvenu.com/. About Palm, Inc. Palm, Inc., a leader in mobile computing, strives to put the power of computing in people's hands so they can access and share their most important information from anywhere. The company's products for consumers, mobile professionals and businesses include Palm[R] Treo[TM] smartphones, Palm Foleo[TM] mobile companions and Palm handheld computers, as well as software, services and accessories. Palm products are sold through select Internet, retail, reseller and wireless operator channels throughout the world, and at Palm Retail Stores and Palm online stores (http://www.palm.com/store). More information about Palm, Inc. is available at http://www.palm.com. (1) Requires compatible phone with Bluetooth wireless technology. Email requires data services from a mobile service provider at an additional cost. ISP (1) See in-system programmable. (2) (Internet Service Provider) An organization that provides access to the Internet. Connection to the user is provided via dial-up, ISDN, cable, DSL and T1/T3 lines. and/or VPN (Virtual Private Network) A private network that is configured within a public network (a carrier's network or the Internet) in order to take advantage of the economies of scale and management facilities of large networks. may also be required. Within wireless service coverage area only. A dial-up networking plan from a service provider may be required at an incremental cost Incremental Cost The encompassing change that a company experiences within its balance sheet due to one additional unit of production. Notes: Incremental cost is the overall change that a company experiences by producing one additional unit of good. above and beyond the service provider's regular smartphone data plans. NOTE: Palm announced the Foleo mobile companion on May 30. Video and images are available from Palm's Multimedia Library (www.palm.com/MultimediaLibrary) and from Business Wire (http://www.businesswire.com/cgi-bin/mmg.cgi?eid=5410999). Also, a social media news release version of today's announcement is available at http://socialnews.palm.com/. The social media news release contains "Web 2.0" features, including subscription via RSS (Really Simple Syndication) A syndication format that was developed by Netscape in 1999 and became very popular for aggregating updates to blogs and the news sites. RSS has also stood for "Rich Site Summary" and "RDF Site Summary. , multimedia downloads, commenting, track-backing, links to social bookmark A stored location for quick retrieval at a later date. Web browsers provide bookmarks that contain the addresses (URLs) of favorite sites. Most electronic references, large text databases and help systems provide bookmarks that mark a location users want to revisit in the future. sites and other resources. Palm, Treo and Foleo are among the trademarks or registered trademarks owned by or licensed to Palm, Inc. All other brand and product names are or may be trademarks of, and are used to identify products or services of, their respective owners. |
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