BrainDock.com Partners With Dixons Group to Offer Software Downloads for Handheld PCs and Next-Generation Mobile Devices.Business Editors/Hi Tech Writers NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 17, 2000 BrainDock.com ("Braindock")(LSE LSE - Language Sensitive Editor :BRC BRC Black Rock City (Burning Man) BRC British Retail Consortium BRC Business Resource Center (Small Business Administration) BRC Bisexual Resource Center BRC Black Radical Congress ), digital distributor of software and content for the mobile Internet Refers to gaining access to the Internet using a lightweight, handheld device. See Mobile IP, PDA, smartphone and mobile TV. and The Dixons Store Group ("Dixons"), the UK's leading electronics retailer, announced an agreement to partner in providing software downloads for handheld computers 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. such as the Psion, Palm, Handspring, and Pocket PC. The new Dixons online service accessible from www.dixons.co.uk, is hosted by BrainDock, and Dixons will promote the service in its high street stores, through general marketing as well as online. -- Dixons is believed to be the first UK-wide high street retailer able to deliver software downloads for handhelds direct to the consumer from the Internet. -- BrainDock, has developed and manages this service allowing consumers to buy and download premier applications for handheld devices and, in due course, for the next generation of Internet-enabled mobile phones. Download offerings include travel guides, dictionaries, portfolio managers, maps, restaurant guides, and film listings with possible expansion into music and other Internet services. -- This alliance positions BrainDock and Dixons as market leaders in the provision of software to mobile device users in the UK. Said Jonathan Glaser, 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 BrainDock: "Our partnership will make available hundreds of titles to Dixons' customers for immediate download, and represents a shift in the method of retail software sales. Dixons' position as the UK's top retailer of handheld devices will create a broad new market for software developers whose titles reside in the BrainDock digital- warehouse." For more information: www.dixons-group-plc.co.uk www.braindock.com Notes to Editors: About BrainDock.com BrainDock.com Inc. (LSE: BRC) is a digital distributor of software for the mobile technology sector, facilitating the purchase and download of mobile software titles via the Internet. BrainDock provides e-commerce solutions to a global network of software resellers and software publishers, offering digital rights management, data warehousing See data warehouse. data warehousing - data warehouse and transaction processing Updating the appropriate database records as soon as a transaction (order, payment, etc.) is entered into the computer. It may also imply that confirmations are sent at the same time. Transaction processing systems are the backbone of an organization because they update constantly. services. About The Dixons Store Group Dixons Group plc is Europe's largest specialist retailer of consumer electronics. With more than 1,150 stores across the UK, the Republic of Ireland, the Nordic region and the Iberian Peninsula Iberian Peninsula, c.230,400 sq mi (596,740 sq km), SW Europe, separated from the rest of Europe by the Pyrenees. Comprising Spain and Portugal, it is washed on the N and W by the Atlantic Ocean and on the S and E by the Mediterranean Sea; the Strait of Gibraltar , It trades through Dixons, Currys, PC World The Link in the UK and Eire, Elkj0p, in the Nordic region, and Ei System in Spain and Portugal. |
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