BT Cellnet and Lexacom Announce Groundbreaking Agreement to Develop Wireless Calendar Services.Business and Technology Editors GSM World Congress 2000, Booth C-18 CANNES, France--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 1, 2000 Lexacom, the world's leading calendaring company, and BT Cellnet, owner of Genie Internet, the Internet, the, international computer network linking together thousands of individual networks at military and government agencies, educational institutions, nonprofit organizations, industrial and financial corporations of all sizes, and commercial enterprises UK's first mobile 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 portal today announced a strategic agreement that will provide Genie Internet's subscribers with real-time Internet and wireless calendaring services. BT Cellnet and Lexacom will work together to provide mobile users with the freedom of personalised and community calendaring services via SMS (1) (Storage Management System) Software used to routinely back up and archive files. See HSM. (2) (Systems Management Server) Systems management software from Microsoft that runs on Windows NT Server. (Short Message Service), and ultimately via WAP (1) (Wireless Access Point) See access point. (2) (Wireless Application Protocol) A standard for providing cellular phones, pagers and other handheld devices with secure access to e-mail and text-based Web pages. (Wireless Application Protocol). &uot;The ability to keep all your diaries up-to-date with the touch of a button on your mobile phone is a key application for Genie Internet's WAP service, &uot; said Brian Greasley, General Manager of Genie Internet. This announcement provides BT Cellnet with Lexacom's full suite of calendaring software, technology that scales to support millions of users. The web-based Lexacom Calendar(TM), powered by Lexacom's world-renowned calendar server, will provide a global-access solution for Genie's Internet customers. Lexacom's product offering is further extended by its Calendar API Calendar API - Calendar Application Programming Interface (CAPI 1. CAPI - Calendar Application Programming Interface. 2. (cryptography) CAPI - Cryptographic Application Programming Interface. 3. (networking) CAPI - Common ISDN Application Programming Interface. ) and synchronization tools for Personal Digital Assistants (PDAs). In addition, Lexacom's Wireless Data Server will provide BT Cellnet with carrier-class throughput, supporting major SMSC SMSC Short Message Service Center SMSC Standard Microsystems Corporation (New York) SMSC Spiritual Moral Social Cultural (education) SMSC Stephenville Medical and Surgical Clinic protocols. BT Cellnet's new calendaring service will integrate the time-related content already available on the Genie portal, and offer a Personal Information Management (PIM (1) (Protocol Independent Multicast) A multicast routing protocol endorsed by the IETF. Used in conjunction with an existing unicast routing protocol, it comes in two flavors: Dense Mode (PIM-DM) is used when recipients in the target group are in a concentrated ) service. Genie Internet customers will be able to manage personal agendas, subscribe to event schedules (sports, travel, radio, TV, etc.) and share their agenda information with others. &uot;This agreement marks the first large-scale deployment of calendaring services for a wireless portal,&uot; said Andre Courtemanche, president and 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. of Lexacom. &uot;BT Cellnet's leadership in the mobile Internet market provides a solid stepping stone for Lexacom on the way to developing tomorrow's third-generation mobile applications. &uot; About Genie Internet Services The award winning Genie website was launched nearly two years ago and enabled data to be sent from a website to a mobile phone for the first time ever. BT Cellnet currently offers the UK's only two free access mobile ISPs--mass-market Genie (www.genie.co.uk) and U.Genie (www.u.genie.co.uk), which is aimed at 16-24 year olds. It now has over 500,000 customers and was the first to offer commercial WAP services in the UK. About BT Cellnet and Genie Internet BT Cellnet, the mobile Internet market leader, is the UK's fastest-growing mobile Internet company. Today it has around 7 million customers using its voice services and 500,000 data users. Wholly owned by BT plc, the company is driving beyond the boundaries of voice communication to lead the Mobile Internet revolution. BT Cellnet launched the UK's first Mobile Internet Service Provider, Genie Internet in 1999, and will be the first to introduce the new generation of very high-speed mobile data services using GPRS (General Packet Radio Service) The first high-speed digital data service provided by cellular carriers that used the GSM technology. GPRS added a packet-switched channel to GSM, which uses dedicated, circuit-switched channels for voice conversations. , or General Packet Radio Services, in summer 2000. Among the market-leading services Genie offers are: - G-Mail: one of the most comprehensive e-mail services on the web. - G-Info: the mobile-Internet's most up-to-date information service, giving users reports on everything from shares to sport and travel. - G-Live: users can select their favourite Premiership Club, plus Rangers or Celtic, and receive text alerts on the latest club, player and match news, as well as listen to more detailed audio reports. - G-Live Grand Prix: get the latest news and results direct to their mobile phone, complete with exclusive audio reports. - The UK's most advanced range of Mobile Internet services delivered through WAP handsets: customers can access any WAP-enabled website in the world--a UK first, through Genie Services (www.genie.co.uk). WAP Partner Services include BBC BBC in full British Broadcasting Corp. Publicly financed broadcasting system in Britain. A private company at its founding in 1922, it was replaced by a public corporation under royal charter in 1927. News, Excite, European Investor.com, eSignal.com, Lastminute.com, Guardian Unlimited, Uprush up·rush n. The rush of water from a breaking wave onto a beach. Also called swash. , Unwired Sport, Unmissable TV, BT PhoneNetUK, Yell Search, Popcorn. About Lexacom/CS& Lexacom/Corporate Software and Technologies (CS&) is the world leader in calendaring technology for the corporate, Internet and wireless markets. Lexacom/CS& was first to develop and market a real-time calendaring and scheduling application. With a mission-critical solution that encompasses client/server, Internet, 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). synchronization, and wireless communications, Lexacom/CS& now offers the only complete, standards-based suite of calendaring products. Based in Montreal, Canada, Lexacom/CS& markets its products and services worldwide to corporations, educational institutions, and service providers like Web Portals, ISPs, ASPs, Telcos, and wireless operators. For more information, please visit www.lexacom.com Copyright (c) 2000 Lexacom N45W73 Inc. All rights reserved. Lexacom, Lexacom Calendar, and Lexacom Wireless Data Server are trademarks of Lexacom N45W73 Inc. All other trade names and trademarks are the property of their respective owners. |
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