Chapura Deepens Palm Powered Handheld Reach Into Microsoft Outlook Contacts; KeyContacts Software Improves Synchronization Management of Fields, Categories and Folders.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers MOBILE, Ala ALA aminolevulinic acid. Ala alanine. ala (a´lah) pl. a´lae [L.] a winglike process. .--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 20, 2002 Creating solutions for users of both Palm OS(R)-based handhelds and Microsoft(R) products, Chapura(R), Inc., an innovator of 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 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. , today announced the first handheld software program that gives 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 users a way to manage virtually all of their detailed contact information through their Palm Powered(TM) handheld. An alternative for the Palm OS Address Book application, KeyContacts(TM) gives Palm Powered handheld users more complete access to important Outlook fields, categories and folders. An estimated 5.7 million Palm OS customers also use Microsoft Outlook. "Retail sales of handheld software saw exponential growth Extremely fast growth. On a chart, the line curves up rather than being straight. Contrast with linear. in 2001," said Isaac Ro, an analyst at Boston-based Aberdeen Group Aberdeen Group is a provider of business-related research services. It has its headquarters in Boston, Massachusetts and belongs to the Harte-Hanks group. Founded in 1988, Aberdeen's research is used by over 2. . "That trend is likely to increase as sales of handhelds grow this year. Applications like KeyContacts are important because they allow customers to use familiar desktop programs on their handhelds. Similar to software sales in the PC market, handheld software will continue to gain momentum as the market matures and users demand more solutions." Support for Multiple Fields, Categories and Folders Outlook customers using KeyContacts instead of the Palm OS Address Book application will be able to synchronize See synchronization. 40 additional Contacts fields, including all phone numbers, all addresses, full name, job title, assistant's name, birthday, anniversary, spouse spouse A legal marriage partner as defined by state law and children's names, and more. KeyContacts also supports over 250 categories, significantly more than the number of standard categories in the Palm OS. Because a contact on the handheld can now have multiple categories associated with it, a salesperson, for example, can store a new lead under multiple, customized categories like "New Leads" and "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 Contacts." In addition, categories and folders in KeyContacts will automatically match previously set categories and folders on the desktop, eliminating the need for users to change the way they organize their information. "We know that while people love Outlook and their Palm Powered handhelds, they would like to synchronize more information between the two," said Keith Ellenberg, chief operating officer Chief Operating Officer (COO) The officer of a firm responsible for day-to-day management, usually the president or an executive vice-president. for Chapura. "KeyContacts offers a revolutionary, convenient solution that lets our customers keep their Outlook information organized in the same way on their Palm Powered handhelds and benefit from the best of both worlds." Pricing and Availability KeyContacts is Chapura's first step in providing fuller Outlook synchronization capabilities. Other Chapura applications, which provide varying degrees of Outlook synchronization, include PocketMirror Professional, PocketMirror Standard and PocketJournal. KeyContacts will be available on June 25, 2002, for $24.95 on the Chapura Web site, www.chapura.com. KeyContacts will also be available on the following Palm software sites: Handango at www.handango.com and PalmGear at www.palmgear.com. A free, 21-day trial version will be available for download To receive a file transmitted over a network. In any communications session, "download" means receive, and "upload" means send. The download/upload often implies a big/little scenario, in which data is being downloaded from the "big" server into the "little" user's computer. on all of these Web sites. For an evaluation copy of KeyContacts or any other Chapura software product, please contact Jennifer Stryd at 650/762-2845 or jstryd@arpartners.com. Customer Service and Support Chapura offers free, knowledgeable and responsive customer support via FAQs on the company's Web site, e-mail and telephone. About Chapura Chapura(R), Inc., is an innovator of synchronization software for handheld computers. Chapura works passionately to simplify its customers' lives with great service, support and software products for handheld computers. Chapura offers products including: Cloak(TM) 2.0, Jibe(TM) 1.1, PocketMirror(R) 3.1 Professional, PocketMirror 3.1 Standard and PocketJournal(R) 1.0.4. For more information, visit the Chapura Web site at www.chapura.com or call 1-800-CHAPURA. Note to Editors: KeyContacts, Jibe and Cloak are trademarks, and PocketMirror, PocketJournal and Chapura are registered trademarks of Chapura, Inc. Palm OS is a registered trademark and Palm Powered is a trademark of Palm, Inc. |
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