CHAPURA ANNOUNCES SYNCHRONIZATION SOFTWARE FOR PALM HANDHELD COMPUTERS.Chapura, a developer of software primarily for handheld computers, announced technology to synchronize See synchronization. a Palm handheld computer with a Microsoft Exchange server Microsoft Exchange Server is a messaging and collaborative software product developed by Microsoft. It is part of the Microsoft Servers line of server products and is widely used by enterprises using Microsoft infrastructure solutions. . Chapura's Microsoft Exchange Messaging and groupware software for Windows from Microsoft. Exchange Server is an Internet-compliant e-mail system that runs under Windows NT/2000 and Windows Server 2003. It can be accessed by Web browsers, the Exchange client, versions of Outlook and the earlier Windows Inbox. synchronization (1) See synchronous and synchronous transmission. (2) Ensuring that two sets of data are always the same. See data synchronization. (3) Keeping time-of-day clocks in two devices set to the same time. See NTP. software, when used with the new Palm HotSync Server software, announced in a separate release, allows users of Palm handheld computers to directly access information such as corporate email accounts and databases from their company's Microsoft Exchange server without having to download information to a personal computer and then synchronize that same information to their Palm handheld. Chapura began developing software for the handheld computer in December 1996 and made its first release in April 1997 with RocketMirror, which is specifically designed for Microsoft Outlook For the e-mail and news client bundled with certain versions of Microsoft Windows, see . Microsoft Outlook or Outlook (full name Microsoft Office Outlook and harmonizes Outlook Calendar, Contacts, Tasks and Notes functions for the handheld computer. PocketMirror is bundled with Palm handheld computers and has been Platinum certified for three years. Other software created by Chapura includes PocketJournal, which was originally released in November 1998. PocketJournal synchronizes Microsoft Outlook's Journal function, which allows handheld computer users to log phone calls, meetings and other activities into their handheld. The new version is Outlook 2000 compliant and has passed the Palm OS platform Platinum testing procedure. |
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