Coola Inc. And Aportis Technologies Partner, Create a Breakthrough in Web Content Delivery to Mobile Reader in a Single Click.Business/Technology Editors PORTLAND Portland, town, England Portland, town (1991 pop. 12,945), Dorset, S England. It is on the Isle of Portland, a small rocky peninsula. Portland stone has been used in St. Paul's Cathedral and other important London buildings. Lobsters and crabs are harvested. , Ore. & WOBURN Woburn, village, England Woburn (w  `bərn), village, Bedfordshire, S central England. , Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 2, 2000
Partnership Provides Simplicity and Speed of Implementation to Help Web Sites Quickly Transfer Documents to Mobile Space and Wireless Devices Aportis Technologies Corp., the publisher of AportisDoc, the industry standard for placing text documents of any size on 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. , and Coola Inc., which transports information from the World Wide Web to Palm(TM)handheld computer applications, today announced a joint partnership, creating a breakthrough in Web content delivery to wireless devices and Palm handhelds. "Web site owners can now have all their web pages converted automatically to AportisDoc format and synched to Palm Powered(TM) handhelds in a single click," said Sudha Jamthe, Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Coola. "This is great news for Palm handheld handheld: see personal digital assistant. users and Internet Internet Publicly accessible computer network connecting many smaller networks from around the world. It grew out of a U.S. Defense Department program called ARPANET (Advanced Research Projects Agency Network), established in 1969 with connections between computers at the merchants. This means all web pages such as pricing, product information, company reports and even press releases can be transferred to a Palm handheld with the ease of a single click." Aportis is the publisher of AportisDoc, the industry standard for placing text documents of any size on handheld computers. Coola is the developer of a new technology that provides an open, new pipe to carry information from the Internet to Palm OS(R) platform applications, independent of the desktop. "This partnership has created a breakthrough in Web Content Delivery to Mobile Applications, and provides simplicity and speed of implementation to help Web sites quickly transfer documents to mobile space and wireless devices," said Tim Horgan, Vice President and General Manager, Online, of CXO CXO Chief Executive Officer (corporate title) CXO Chandra X-ray Observatory CXO Chief Experience Officer (corporate title) CXO Conroe, TX (Airport Identifier) Media, the producer of CIO CIO: see American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations. (Chief Information Officer) The executive officer in charge of information processing in an organization. .com, which has adopted Coola Technology to allow Web users to 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. CIO.com site information to their handhelds. Users visiting these Coola-enabled Web sites can have the information from any Web page automatically converted so they may be viewed on any Palm Powered handheld with AportisDoc Mobile Edition or other "Doc" readers. For example, manufacturers' representatives Manufacturers representatives (reps), also known as sales agents, are independently owned and managed sales companies that are an alternative to hiring a direct sales force. can take detailed price codes and technical specifications from Web sites and place them on their handhelds, health care professionals can take patient records and lab results on their rounds, lawyers can view any codes and rules needed during a trial, and financial services The examples and perspective in this article or section may not represent a worldwide view of the subject. Please [ improve this article] or discuss the issue on the talk page. professionals can refer to credit ratings and S.E.C. regulations. "The partnering of AportisDoc with Coola gives Palm handheld users an easy way to get large amounts of information from the Internet to their Palm handhelds with ease," said David Schargel, President of Aportis Technologies Corp. "Companies that target the mobile professional can also immediately benefit as Coola is able to transform large, dynamically, database-driven web sites into the AportisDoc handheld software." Coola service includes: --Simple 5-minute Implementation: Available immediately, Web site owners can allow their site to be accessible through a Palm handheld by placing a simple HTML tag A code used in HTML to define a format change or hypertext link. HTML tags are surrounded by the angle brackets < and >.  called a
`Document Coolet' on the pages or next to the specific information
they want to be accessible. This process takes less than five minutes.
Web site owners can create a Coolet from Coola.com for free or partner
with Coola to dynamically enable their entire Web site to be accessible
on Palm handhelds.
--1-click Access to Web Content in your favorite reader: Following a one-time-only registration process, users click on the Coola Sync-to-Handheld button associated with each to transfer information to their Palm the next time they perform a HotSync(R) operation. --Mobility to 8 million Palm handheld users: Palm handheld users can get Web content such as product pricing, financial reports, press releases, news, job listing, etc. to the Aportis Reader on their Palm handheld by clicking on Coola's Document Coolet from any Web site as they surf. --Share Web Content across handhelds to friend's Palm: The Coola service also allows users to send selected documents to anyone's Palm handheld. For example, users can click on Coola's Document Coolet and send product information to a colleague's and/or and/or conj. Used to indicate that either or both of the items connected by it are involved. Usage Note: And/or is widely used in legal and business writing. friend's Palm handheld computer. About Coola Inc. Privately held and founded in December December: see month. 1999, Coola Inc. develops and markets a radically new communication mechanism that allows Web site owners to Coola-enable their site in five minutes. Coola offers wireless and non-wireless Palm handheld users the freedom to take information of their choice from the Web or e-mail to their Palm OS platform applications. The company's vision is to make information mobile and facilitate migration of mobile users to wireless. Coola is the first to offer an open, new pipe to carry any information from the Web to Palm OS platform applications allowing users to take information and share it directly with their colleagues' Palm handheld in a single click. Coola is located in Woburn, Mass., and can be contacted at (781) 938-9075 or on the Web at www.coola.com. About AportisDoc The AportisDoc file format standard (sometimes called "DOC") is used to create documents that businesses worldwide use everyday. In addition to AportisDoc's acceptance as a standard by the professional and business community, thousands of electronic books, news headlines See syndication format. and articles, news columnists, and other useful materials are available. AportisDoc formatted content also includes new titles, reference works, classic novels, the Bible Bible [Gr.,=the books], term used since the 4th cent. to denote the Christian Scriptures and later, by extension, those of various religious traditions. This article discusses the nature of religious scripture generally and the Christian Scriptures specifically, as , train schedules, weather reports, travel guides, and most of the Gutenberg Project Library. The Aportis eBook See e-book. Library, www.aportis.com/library, contains over 3000 documents for free downloading downloading - download . AportisDoc Mobile Edition software provides the ability to read text documents of any size on Palm handhelds. Many mobile professionals use AportisDoc to carry important text documents in a wide variety of mission-critical business applications About Aportis Aportis Technologies was founded in early 1997 to develop and market a line of portable software products. Aportis' focus is on small business and enterprise-based productivity solutions for mobile professionals. It is an integral part of a wide variety of business and consumer applications, and is an important enabling technology for handhelds based on the Palm OS platform. Aportis can be reached at PO Box 86336, Portland, OR 97286-0336, USA. Sales number is toll free, 888.APORTIS (888.276.7847), or 503.736.3240. Fax is 503.736.3239. Aportis Technologies' Web site is www.aportis.com. AportisDoc and Doc are trademarks of Aportis Technologies Corp. Coola is a trademark of Coola, Inc. Palm OS and HotSync are registered trademarks and Palm and Palm Powered are trademarks of Palm, Inc. or its subsidiaries. All other brands and product names may be trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective holders. |
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