Bridge Joins Phone.com Alliance Program.Business Editors NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 20, 2000 Alliance Extends BRIDGE's Financial Information and Applications to Phone.com Wireless Device Users Bridge Information Systems (BRIDGE(R)) the largest provider of financial information services See Information Systems. in 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. announced today that it has joined the Phone.com(TM) Alliance Program as a content and applications provider. The alliance will allow BridgeConnectSM, BRIDGE's mobile financial information service, to be accessed via Phone.com's UP.Browser(TM), an interactive microbrowser A Web browser designed for small display screens on smartphones and other handheld wireless devices. See smartphone and WAP. , by mobile phone subscribers giving them a source for mobile real time global information and news, in addition to weather services and forecasts, personal portfolio management and voice email As early as 2001, the term "voice email" came into use to refer (1) email messages that contained voice, (2) products that can send email messages that contain voice, (3) products that provide an interactive voice response system for reviewing and/or creating email. . "BridgeConnect empowers Phone.com's mobile phone subscribers with information and news in over a dozen languages across the world's financial, equities and commodities markets," said Jeffrey H. Woodruff, Senior Vice President for BRIDGE. "Extending BRIDGE's delivery beyond the desktop and the browser via BridgeConnect to Phone.com's wireless provider customers allows end users to experience the ultimate in portability of financial information." "We are delighted that BRIDGE has extended their extensive financial information services to the Phone.com platform for wireless Internet," said Kathy Simpson, Director of Developer Marketing for Phone.com. "It is critical to business people around the world to be able to have access to quality financial information any time of the day, especially when away from the PC." The Phone.com Alliance Program has two aims: to promote the concept of wireless information access, and to coordinate the exchange of ideas and information among Alliance Program members, other companies developing wireless Internet products and services, and Phone.com's network operators. BRIDGE joins a growing list of alliances that includes content providers, application developers, tools providers and systems integrators using the Phone.com Product Family. For more information about Phone.com, please visit their Web site at http://www.phone.com. BridgeConnectSM enables mobile phone users to access BRIDGE's real-time financial information including stock indices, stock quotes, market movers (top gainers and losers) and news headlines covering local, regional, and global currencies, stocks and indices while "on the move". The menu-driven interface provides quick and easy access to information and allows users to track their investments through their own personal portfolios. BridgeConnect utilizes the Wireless Application Protocol (WAP (1) (Wireless Access Point) See access point. (2) (Wireless Application Protocol) A standard for providing cellular phones, pagers and other handheld devices with secure access to e-mail and text-based Web pages. ), an open, global specification that empowers mobile users with wireless devices to access and interact with information services. For more information about BRIDGE products and services, visit us at booth #2201 at the Securities Industry Association's Technology Management Conference & Exhibit show, June 20-22 at the New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of Hilton. About BRIDGE BRIDGE, together with its principal operating units operating unit A type of operating company that engages in transactions with outsiders and that is owned by another business. For example, in 1995 the stockholders of Capital Cities/ABC approved a $19 billion merger with the Walt Disney Company, whereupon , Bridge Information Systems, Telerate(R), Inc. Bridge Trading, eBRIDGESM, and BridgeNewsSM, is the largest provider of financial information and related services in North America - and one of the fastest growing in the world. BRIDGE information products include a wide range of workstations, market data feeds and web browser-based applications, combined with comprehensive market data, in-depth news, powerful analytic tools and trading room The notion of "trading room" (sometimes used as a synonym of "trading floor", see below) is widely used in financial markets to refer to the office space where market activities are concentrated in investment banks or brokerage houses. integration systems. BridgeNews leverages a network of 600 BRIDGE journalists in more than 100 locations that break news affecting financial markets globally. BRIDGE is the co-producer of the Nightly Business Report Nightly Business Report is a financial news television program that is broadcast live, weekday evenings on most of the public television stations in the United States. Frequently abbreviated to NBR, the show is produced by public television station WPBT-TV in Miami, Florida, and and is a leading provider of financial news and information to media companies worldwide. BRIDGE, with 5000 employees worldwide, and over a quarter of a million users in over 65 countries, is headquartered in New York City New York City: see New York, city. New York City City (pop., 2000: 8,008,278), southeastern New York, at the mouth of the Hudson River. The largest city in the U.S. with the BRIDGE Trading and Technology center in St. Louis, MO., and major regional centers in Europe, the Middle East, Africa, and the Pacific Rim Pacific Rim, term used to describe the nations bordering the Pacific Ocean and the island countries situated in it. In the post–World War II era, the Pacific Rim has become an increasingly important and interconnected economic region. . For more information visit the BRIDGE web site at http://www.bridge.com. Phone.com and the family of terms carrying the "UP." prefix The beginning or to add to the beginning. To prefix a header onto a packet means to place the header characters in front of the packet. "To prefix" at the beginning is the opposite of "to append" characters at the end. See prepend. 1. are trademarks of Phone.com, Inc. All other trademarks and registered trademarks are the properties of their respective owners. BRIDGE and BridgeConnect are registered trademarks of Bridge Information Systems, Inc. All other trademarks belong to their respective owners. |
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