BlueKite.com Expands Into Asia/Pacific; Pacific Rim Expansion to Build Upon Strong U.S. and European Customer Base.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--July 10, 2001 BlueKite.com, a leading mobile Internet Refers to gaining access to the Internet using a lightweight, handheld device. See Mobile IP, PDA, smartphone and mobile TV. software provider, has expanded into Asian/Pacific markets after successful product deployments and customer acquisitions in Europe and the U.S. Through a partnership with 2M Services, BlueKite will be able to expand into the most progressive mobile market in the world, while building on several current relationships with modem and device manufacturers, including Mitsubishi Electric Mitsubishi Electric Corporation (三菱電機株式会社 Corporation in Japan, and Cyberbank Corp. in Korea. BlueKite's optimization platform will enable Asian mobile operators to deploy 3G-type services on today's 2G and 2.5G networks by significantly improving mobile Internet performance speeds. With a large mobile Internet install-base already in place, Asian operators will be able to more effectively differentiate service offerings and roll out rich content services and applications by employing BlueKite technology. "With the widespread use of 2.5G networks throughout Asia combined with BlueKite's optimization platform, end users will realize there's no reason to wait for 3G," said Eric Colard, BlueKite's vice president of business development. "By using BlueKite technology, mobile operators are able to offer additional value-added data services, while reducing overall costs." By working with 2M Services, BlueKite will be able to provide local sales and technical support to customers and partners. 2M Services has offices in China, Hong Kong Hong Kong (hŏng kŏng), Mandarin Xianggang, special administrative region of China, formerly a British crown colony (2005 est. pop. 6,899,000), land area 422 sq mi (1,092 sq km), adjacent to Guangdong prov. , Korea, Singapore, and Taiwan. To further strengthen its operations, BlueKite has opened a demonstration center in Hong Kong, accessible from anywhere in Asia, for companies to evaluate its wireless optimization technology. BlueKite was recently the first company to offer optimization technology compatible for Pocket PC devices It may never be fully completed or, depending on its its nature, it may be that it can never be completed. However, new and revised entries in the list are always welcome. This is a list of Pocket PC and Windows CE devices, and companies that make, or have made, them. , including Compaq's iPaq, Hewlett-Packard's Jornada, Casio's Cassiopeia, and Mitsubishi's Trium Mondo mon·do Slang adj. Enormous; huge: a mondo list of pizza toppings. adv. Extremely; very: a mondo big mistake. . Korean-based Cyberbank Corp. is currently testing BlueKite's v4.0 software to integrate with its new PC-EPhone -- a next-generation Pocket PC and mobile phone hybrid device. "By using BlueKite software, the PC-EPhone becomes a more powerful device for accessing the Internet in a mobile fashion, effectively empowering end users and making their lives simpler and easier," said Jin Woo Park, Cyberbank's marketing director. BlueKite also partners with GTRAN Wireless, a leading global deployer of wireless transmission products with a strong Korean presence, to enhance GTRAN's DotSurfer(TM) wireless PC modem card to achieve high-speed data rates of up to 144Kbps. Last year, GTRAN Wireless was the first company to launch a true PCMCIA (Personal Computer Memory Card International Association, San Jose, CA, www.pcmcia.org) An international standards body and trade association that was founded in 1989 to establish a standard for connecting peripherals to portable computers. PCMCIA created the PC Card. See PC Card. Type II data card solution for CDMA (Code Division Multiple Access) A method for transmitting simultaneous signals over a shared portion of the spectrum. The foremost application of CDMA is the digital cellular phone technology from QUALCOMM that operates in the 800 MHz band and 1.9 GHz PCS band. IS-95 systems. "Partnering with BlueKite allows GTRAN to offer mobile operators a more complete value-added wireless data service," said Deepak Mehrotra, chief executive officer of GTRAN Wireless. "We expect to build upon our strong Asian presence with BlueKite's optimization platform." BlueKite's proven technology enables service providers to build profitable revenue streams from current networks through bandwidth optimization, content delivery management, and service support. Service providers can also accommodate more users over constrained wireless spectrum by deploying BlueKite's optimization technology, which reduces the amount of data sent over packet-switched networks by an average factor of eight. This is achieved by reducing overhead, latency, and redundancy while still giving end users a rich Web experience by delivering Internet content in its full, original form. About BlueKite.com Established in 1997, BlueKite is a leading Internet software company that provides a platform enabling the efficient delivery of rich content to 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 devices. Service providers around the globe such as BT Cellnet, Connect Austria, Sprint PCS (1) (Personal Communications Services) Refers to wireless services that emerged after the U.S. government auctioned commercial licenses in 1994 and 1995. This radio spectrum in the 1. , Swisscom, and Telfort have built mobile Internet services upon BlueKite's technology. BlueKite also partners with device manufacturers, including Mitsubishi Electric Telecom and Sierra Wireless Sierra Wireless (NASDAQ: SWIR, TSX: SW) is a wireless communications equipment designer and manufacturer, founded in 1993 and currently headquartered in Richmond, BC, Canada. Sierra's products are sold through indirect channels, such as wireless operators (e.g. , to offer enhanced wireless data services. Headquartered in San Francisco San Francisco (săn frănsĭs`kō), city (1990 pop. 723,959), coextensive with San Francisco co., W Calif., on the tip of a peninsula between the Pacific Ocean and San Francisco Bay, which are connected by the strait known as the Golden , BlueKite has an engineering and design center in southern California Southern California, also colloquially known as SoCal, is the southern portion of the U.S. state of California. Centered on the cities of Los Angeles and San Diego, Southern California is home to nearly 24 million people and is the nation's second most populated region, and European operations in the U.K., France, Denmark, and the Netherlands. For more information, please visit www.bluekite.com or call 415/369-3700 in the U.S. or +44 207 9079790 in the U.K. Note to Editors: BlueKite and DataReduxion are trademarks of BlueKite.com, Inc. All other company and product names are used for identification purposes only and may be trademarks of their respective owners. |
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