Bandai Networks Signs Letter of Intent With Gravitate to Deploy Software Platform for Advanced Wireless Internet Services.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO South San Francisco, city (1990 pop. 54,312), San Mateo co., W Calif.; inc. 1908. South San Francisco has several industrial parks; its manufactures include medical supplies and equipment, foods, paint, paper products, consumer goods, and clothing. , Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 20, 2001 Agreement Expected To Lead To Gravitate grav·i·tate intr.v. grav·i·tat·ed, grav·i·tat·ing, grav·i·tates 1. To move in response to the force of gravity. 2. To move downward. 3. Platform Enabling Bandai Networks Applications Gravitate Inc. (www.gravitate-usa.com), a fast-growing provider of technologies and applications for Location Precise(TM)wireless Internet services, today announced that it has signed a Letter of Intent with Bandai Networks Co., Ltd. (www.bandai-net.com), of Tokyo, the island nation's largest provider of Internet content for mobile phones. Bandai Networks will be deploying the Gravitate Platform for "real market" evaluation of its ability to location-enable Bandai Networks-branded wireless Internet services, particularly those focused on connecting two mobile device users who are within proximity of each other. The Gravitate Platform was specifically designed to support these advanced new Location Precise services, which includes the emerging "mobile-user-to-mobile-user" application category. Bandai Networks is the leading supplier of wireless Internet applications to NTT DoCoMo (NTT Mobile Communications Network, Inc., Japan) Founded in 1991, NTT DoCoMo is a spinoff of Japan's NTT (Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation) which provides wireless services, including cellular, paging, satellite and maritime and in-flight telephone services. , Japan's largest mobile services provider. Bandai Networks services are used by nearly four million fee-paying subscribers. "The Gravitate Platform allows Bandai Networks to differentiate its applications in a highly competitive industry by adding a crucial mobile-to-mobile component to the user experience," said Toyoshi Takahashi, chief technical officer for Bandai Networks. "We believe that we can increase our number of subscribers with the Gravitate Platform, which enables us to create more flexible and user-friendly content." "Gravitate is focusing on servicing markets where adoption rates and, most importantly Adv. 1. most importantly - above and beyond all other consideration; "above all, you must be independent" above all, most especially , revenue opportunities are significant," said John Trobough, chief executive officer of Gravitate. "Working with partners such as Bandai Networks in Japan will help Gravitate to emerge as the Location Precise software platform leader in Asia and ultimately other markets around the world as well, particularly Europe and North America North America, third largest continent (1990 est. pop. 365,000,000), c.9,400,000 sq mi (24,346,000 sq km), the northern of the two continents of the Western Hemisphere. ." The future Bandai Networks applications will provide Gravitate with an ideal showcase for the advanced capabilities of its Location Precise software platform. The Gravitate Platform has the unique ability to maintain in real-time the location of millions of moving data points, as well as manage relevant relationships and queries between each of those data points. The software architecture of the Gravitate Platform is built on the open-architecture Enterprise Java Bean See JavaBeans. (EJB (Enterprise JavaBeans) A software component in Sun's J2EE platform, which provides a pure Java environment for developing and running distributed applications. EJBs are written as software modules that contain the business logic of the application. ) specification. This grants the Gravitate product a high degree of scalability to easily accommodate an ever-growing number of transactions and concurrent users In computer science, the number of concurrent users for a resource in a location, with the location being a computing network or a single computer, refers to the total number of people using the resource at the same time. . Gravitate Inc. Based in South San Francisco and founded in October 1999, Gravitate is a provider of best-of-breed enabling technologies and applications for the rapid development and deployment of Location Precise wireless services. The Gravitate Platform is the first comprehensive software solution and suite of applications supporting mobile-to-mobile and static-to-mobile services deployed on wireless devices. For more information, visit the Web site at www.gravitate-usa.com or call Pascal Stolz, EVP EVP Executive Vice President EVP EGR (Exhaust Gas Recirculation) Valve Position Sensor EVP Electronic Voice Phenomenon EVP Europäische Volkspartei (Germany) EVP Employee Value Proposition Marketing, at 866-GRAVITATE (472-8482) or 650/873-4373. |
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