Bachmann Software's PrintBoy, Standard Edition is Included with New Palm Tungsten C Handheld; Palm Tungsten C handheld includes Wi-Fi printing capabilities.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers SPARTA, N.J.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 23, 2003 Note: This release complements today's announcement from Palm, Inc. regarding the availability of the Palm Tungsten tungsten (tŭng`stən) [Swed.,=heavy stone], metallic chemical element; symbol W; at. no. 74; at. wt. 183.85; m.p. about 3,410°C;; b.p. 5,660°C;; sp. gr. 19.3 at 20°C;; valence +2, +3, +4, +5, or +6. C handheld. Bachmann Software announced that its PrintBoy mobile printing software will be included with the new Palm(TM) Tungsten(TM) C handheld from Palm, Inc., introduced today. This is the first Palm branded handheld to offer PrintBoy on the in-box Software Essentials CD. PrintBoy, Standard Edition will allow users to print DataViz's Documents To Go(R) documents, spreadsheets, and presentations as well as information from the standard Palm OS(R) applications such as Memo, Date Book, To Do List and Address Book. Using PrintBoy, Tungsten C handheld owners can produce and share high-quality printouts of their most crucial files via infrared, Wi-Fi or other network connection. With the new built-in Wi-Fi networking See wireless Ethernet and 802.11. capabilities of the Tungsten C handheld and Bachmann Software's PrintBoy software, printing to shared network printers from Palm Powered(TM) handhelds is easier than ever before. This latest version of PrintBoy includes enhanced Network Printing via the free PrintBoy Server web service. With PrintBoy Server, customers can register and configure See configuration. (software) configure - A program by Richard Stallman to discover properties of the current platform and to set up make to compile and install gcc. Cygnus configure was a similar system developed by K. office printers at www.print-boy.com, thus removing the need to perform printer driver configuration on their wireless Palm Powered handheld. "We felt strongly that including software that helped demonstrate the capabilities of Wi-Fi were a critical requirement for this product," said Paul Osborne For the American playwright, see . Paul Osborne was a member of the Australian Capital Territory Legislative Assembly from 1995 until 2001. Paul grew up in Hurlstone Park, New South Wales and was educated at Christian Brothers' High School, Lewisham. , senior product manager for Palm Solutions Group. "We have been very impressed with the printing features of PrintBoy, and we are pleased to offer this software to our Tungsten C handheld customers." "With the arrival of the Tungsten C handheld, Palm Powered handheld users are able to easily connect to and utilize essential network resources such as the World Wide Web and e-mail,(1)" said Glenn Bachmann, president of Bachmann Software. "Our newest version of PrintBoy enables Tungsten C handheld users to truly participate in today's networked world by providing instant access to shared network printers found in offices, schools and homes around the world." Bachmann Software is providing Tungsten C handheld owners with an opportunity to upgrade to the full-featured Bachmann Utilities for $29.99 at its website www.bachmannsoftware.com. Bachmann Utilities adds database printing, as well as essential mobile file management functions that users take for granted on their desktop PCs, enabling a wider range of business functions to be performed while away from the office. About the Palm Tungsten C Handheld The Palm Tungsten C handheld is Palm, Inc.'s most powerful handheld computer 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. with built-in high-speed wireless connectivity to address what campus networkers want most in a handheld. It is Palm's first device to ship with integrated Wi-Fi, or 802.11b, for wireless campus connectivity.(1) It offers 64MB of memory to manage data-intensive applications; 400MHz (MegaHertZ) One million cycles per second. It is used to measure the transmission speed of electronic devices, including channels, buses and the computer's internal clock. A one-megahertz clock (1 MHz) means some number of bits (16, 32, 64, etc. of ARM processing power; a 320 x 320 transflective TFT (Thin Film Transistor) The term typically refers to active matrix screens on laptop computers. Active matrix LCD provides a sharper screen display and broader viewing angle than does passive matrix. See LCD and thin film. TFT - Thin Film transistor display (Palm's sharpest screen to date for indoor and outdoor viewing); and integrated, full-featured business applications, such as VersaMail(TM) 2.5 for email, and DataViz(R) Documents To Go(R) for efficiently managing Microsoft Word A full-featured word processing program for Windows and the Macintosh from Microsoft. Included in the Microsoft application suite, it is a sophisticated program with rudimentary desktop publishing capabilities that has become the most widely used word processing application on the market. , Excel and PowerPoint compatible documents. More information is available at www.palm.com/tungsten-c. About PrintBoy PrintBoy allows Palm OS users to print documents, spreadsheets and other critical information directly from their handheld device over infrared, Bluetooth(TM), 802.11b (also known as Wi-Fi), smartphone A cellular telephone with information access. It provides digital voice service as well as any combination of e-mail, text messaging, pager, Web access, voice recognition, still and/or video camera, MP3, TV or video player and organizer (see PDA). or modem connection to most popular printers. PrintBoy includes support for many of the top Palm OS productivity applications on the market, including Cutting Edge Software's Quickoffice, DataViz' Documents To Go, and Blue Nomad's WordSmith word·smith n. 1. A fluent and prolific writer, especially one who writes professionally. 2. An expert on words. Noun 1. . The powerful print engine behind the PrintBoy application is Bachmann Software's PrintBoy SDK (Software Developer's Kit) See developer's toolkit and Windows SDK. SDK - Software Developers Kit (or "Software Development Kit"). . PrintBoy SDK is also available to software developers who want to add printing to their software application. About Bachmann Software & Services Bachmann Software & Services is a leading provider of software products and development services for handheld computing computing - computer and wireless platforms. Based in Sparta, N.J., the company primarily develops applications for the handheld marketplace. Its premier products include PrintBoy(TM) and FilePoint(TM) Pro, which extends many of the "Windows-style" file management conveniences to Palm Powered(TM) devices that desktop users have long enjoyed. Bachmann also produces the InfraReady(TM) adapter A device that allows one system to connect to and work with another. An adapter is often a simple circuit that converts one set of signals to another; however, the term often refers to devices which are more accurately called "controllers. , designed to convert virtually any printer's parallel port to accept an infrared beam and the BTReady(TM) adapter, which converts a printer's parallel port to accept Bluetooth. Bachmann has also been a leading contributor to the overall Palm Economy by producing over 50 products on the platform. The company has been engaged by many Fortune 500 companies to develop mobile computing Using a computing device while in transit. Mobile computing implies wireless transmission, but wireless transmission does not necessarily imply mobile computing. Fixed wireless applications use satellites, radio systems and lasers to transmit between permanent objects such as buildings solutions. The company's president, Glenn Bachmann is also the author of the book "Palm OS Programming," published by Sams Publishing, now available in its second edition. For more information, visit www.bachmannsoftware.com PrintBoy, FilePoint, InfraReady and BTReady are trademarks of Bachmann Software. Palm OS is a registered trademark and Palm Powered is a trademark of PalmSource, Inc., a subsidiary of Palm, Inc. Palm and Tungsten are trademarks of Palm, Inc. Bluetooth and the Bluetooth logo are trademarks of Bluetooth SIG, Inc, U.S.A. All other products, services and company names are trademarks, registered trademarks or services marks of their respective owners. (1) Wireless access may require a subscription, sold separately. |
|
||||||||||||||||
Printer friendly
Cite/link
Email
Feedback
Reader Opinion