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Boingo Demonstrates Wi-Fi Roaming Solution for Symbian Smartphones.


Wi-Fi Roaming Leader Joins Symbian Platinum Program

BARCELONA, Spain -- Boingo Wireless Boingo redirects here. For the Hoodwinked character see Boingo (Hoodwinked). For the rock band, see Oingo Boingo.
Boingo Wireless is a private American company that provides wireless communication services, specifically Wi-Fi.
 Inc., the world's leading wholesale network aggregator and operator of neutral-host Wi-Fi networks, today announced it has joined the Symbian Platinum Program and is demonstrating its port of Boingo[R] Embedded Wi-Fi Toolkit to Symbian OS An open standard operating system for data-enabled mobile phones (smartphones) from Symbian Ltd., London (www.symbian.com). It supports Java, PC synchronization, Bluetooth local wireless access and GPRS packet-switched data.  at 3GSM. The Boingo[R] Embedded Wi-Fi Toolkit offers Symbian OS licensees the opportunity to integrate seamless Wi-Fi roaming connectivity into their dual-mode handsets.

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 PRO arcade at 3GSM World Congress, supports S60 software on Symbian OS. A subsequent port will support UIQ UIQ User Interface IQ (smartphones)  on Symbian OS later this year. Symbian OS is licensed by the world's leading mobile phone manufacturers and to date more than 100 million Symbian smartphones have shipped worldwide to more than 250 major network operators.

The Boingo Embedded Wi-Fi Toolkit enables Wi-Fi and dual-mode smartphones to easily and transparently authenticate to Boingo's Wi-Fi hotspots worldwide. Users will be able to turn on their devices and enjoy a broadband Wi-Fi connection when in range of any Boingo Hot Spot in venues such as hotels, airports, convention centers, truck stops, and retail stores around the world.

"Symbian smartphones are among the sexiest and most robust devices in the world," said Colby Goff, senior vice president - network strategy and business development for Boingo Wireless. "Adding a Symbian OS port to our portfolio opens up a tremendous new range of platforms that can leverage an embedded Boingo toolkit, which is a significant step for extending our market leadership in Wi-Fi device access."

Boingo Becomes Symbian Platinum Partner

Boingo also joined the Symbian Platinum Program, an industry forum that brings together leading technology innovators and service providers from across the mobile value chain -- all providing compelling applications, middleware and services for Symbian smartphones.

"Symbian is delighted to partner with Boingo Wireless, leading Wi-Fi hotspot aggregator - now with over 60,000 hot spots hot spots

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 located around the globe," said Jerry Panagrossi, vice president, US Operations, Symbian. "The Boingo Embedded Wi-Fi Toolkit enables Symbian OS licensees to integrate Wi-Fi roaming capabilities directly into their Symbian smartphones, offering seamless connectivity with Boingo's award winning Wi-Fi hot spot service."

About the Symbian Platinum Program

The Symbian Platinum Program includes member companies that have a technology or strategic position that is key to the success of 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  technology based on Symbian OS. As Program members, Platinum Partners benefit from a range of commercial services, including technical support and joint marketing opportunities as well as privileged access to Symbian OS source code and a dedicated Partner Support team. For more information please see http://www.symbian.com/partner/platinum/platinum.html

About Boingo Embedded

The Boingo Embedded Wi-Fi Toolkit is an open source solution that runs on BREW, Linux, Symbian OS, Windows Mobile The Windows platform from Microsoft for handheld devices, including PDAs, cellphones and Portable Media Centers. See Pocket PC, Pocket PC Phone Edition, Smartphone and Portable Media Center.  2003 and Windows Mobile 5. It is designed for service providers, OEMs, ODMs, and chipset manufacturers that develop Wi-Fi equipped devices and want to enable global roaming on commercial hot spot networks. It is also available as licensed software. More information is available at www.boingo.com/embedded.

The Boingo Mobile service provides unlimited Internet access See how to access the Internet.  to users of Wi-Fi enabled devices that run the Boingo Embedded Wi-Fi Toolkit. Users of those devices can access the Internet in tens of thousands of hot spots in 77 countries around the world. More information about the service is available at http://mobile.boingo.com.

About Boingo Wireless

Boingo Wireless, Inc. provides global Wi-Fi Internet access through the Boingo[R] Roaming System, which comprises 60,000 hot spots in airports, hotels, cafes and other public places, including metropolitan hot zones. Business travelers can use a single Boingo account to log in at Wi-Fi networks around the world using one username and password. Boingo Roaming System services can also be private labeled by telcos, wireless operators, Internet service providers Internet service provider (ISP)

Company that provides Internet connections and services to individuals and organizations. For a monthly fee, ISPs provide computer users with a connection to their site (see data transmission), as well as a log-in name and password.
 (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 managed service providers (MSP (1) (Management Service Provider or Managed Service Provider) An organization that manages a customer's computer systems and networks which are either located on the customer's premises or at a third-party datacenter. ) as part of their own branded services for laptops, handsets and mobile devices. Through its Concourse Communications Group LLC (Logical Link Control) See "LANs" under data link protocol.

LLC - Logical Link Control
 subsidiary, Boingo operates neutral host wireless access systems that provide wireless voice and data services supporting public and commercial interests. More information about Boingo and Concourse is available at http://www.boingo.com and http://www.concoursecommunications.com.

Boingo, Boingo Wireless, and the Boingo Wireless Logo are registered trademarks of Boingo Wireless, Inc.

About Symbian

Symbian is a software licensing company that develops and licenses Symbian OS, the market-leading open operating system operating system (OS)

Software that controls the operation of a computer, directs the input and output of data, keeps track of files, and controls the processing of computer programs.
 for advanced, data-enabled mobile phones, also known as smartphones.

Symbian licenses Symbian OS to the world's leading handset manufacturers and has built close co-operative business relationships with leading companies across the mobile industry. To date, more than 100 million Symbian smartphones have shipped cumulatively to over 250 mobile network operators worldwide.

Symbian has its headquarters in London, United Kingdom with offices in China, Europe, India, Japan, Korea, and the United States United States, officially United States of America, republic (2005 est. pop. 295,734,000), 3,539,227 sq mi (9,166,598 sq km), North America. The United States is the world's third largest country in population and the fourth largest country in area. .
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