Coola and CXO Media Extend CIO.com to the Mobile Space; CIO.com Web Site Empowers Visitors to Sync Information to the Palm--Independent of the Desktop--via the Coola Service.Business/Technology Editors WOBURN Woburn, village, England Woburn (w  `bərn), village, Bedfordshire, S central England. , Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 12, 2000 Coola Inc., the developer of a new technology that provides an open, new pipe to carry any information from the World Wide Web to Palm applications in a single click, today announced that 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, 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 hand-held hand-held also hand·held adj. Compact enough to be used or operated while being held in the hand or hands: a hand-held video camera. Adj. 1. devices. Available immediately, visitors to the CIO.com site can transfer specific information, such as conferences, job opportunities, and research items to their Palm hand-helds with a single click via the Coola(R) service. "CIO.com visitors are very technology-savvy; many are already relying on their Palm and other mobile devices to organize their days both in and out of the office," says Tim Horgan, Vice President/General Manager, Online, of CXO Media. "The Coola service allows us to extend our relationship with these users by providing them with exactly the information they need, when and where they need it." Following a one-time-only registration process, users click on the Coola Sync-to-Palm button associated with each event or job listing to transfer information to their Palm the next time they sync. Event information is synced directly into the user's Palm Date Book. Job listings are transferred to the Memo Pad memo pad n → bloc m de notas memo pad n → bloc-notes m memo pad memo n → Notizblock m . The Coola service also allows users to send selected information to colleagues' 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. friends' Palms. "We are excited to have CIO.com as one of our premier customers," said Sudha Jamthe, President of Coola. "Content providers on the World Wide Web are among the most sensitive to the demands of their users in terms of how information is organized and presented. CIO.com recognizes the need to simplify and provide visitors with access content from wherever they are, with whatever vehicle they choose, and Coola allows this to happen." 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 Palm enable their site in five minutes. Coola offers wireless and non-wireless Palm users the freedom to take information of their choice from the Web or e-mail to their Palm 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 applications allowing users to take information and share it directly with their colleagues' Palm 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. Coola is a trademark of Coola, Inc., PalmOS is registered trademark and Palm is a trademark of Palm, Inc. Other names and trademarks are the property of their respective owners. About CIO.com CIO.com is produced by CXO Media, Inc. (formerly CIO Communications, Inc.). CXO Media, publishers of CIO magazine and the newly launched Darwin Darwin, city (1991 pop. 67,946), capital of the Northern Territory, N Australia, on Port Darwin, an inlet of the Timor Sea. Remotely situated on the sparsely settled north coast, Darwin had no rail connection with any of the major Australian cities until 2003, when magazine, serves CIOs, CEOs, CFOs, COOs and other corporate officers who use technology to thrive and prosper in this new era of business. The company strives to enhance partnerships between CIOs and CXOs, as well as create opportunities for IT and consumer marketers to reach them. CXO Media also produces value-added content and community development services on the www.cio.com and www.darwinmagazine.com websites, as well as CIO and Darwin Executive Programs, a series of conferences that provide educational and networking opportunities for corporate and government leaders. CXO Media, Inc. is a subsidiary of IDG IDG International Data Group IDG Integrated Drive Generator IDG Installation Design Guide IDG Internet Discussion Group IDG Inset Dielectric Guide IDG International Dangerous Goods (mail, shipping) , the world's leading IT media, research and exposition exposition or exhibition, term frequently applied to an organized public fair or display of industrial and artistic productions, designed usually to promote trade and to reflect cultural progress. company. IDG publishes more than 300 computer magazines and newspapers and 4,000 book titles and offers online users the largest network of technology-specific sites around the world through IDG.net (http://www.idg.net), which comprises more than 270 targeted Web sites in 70 countries. IDG is also a leading producer of 168 computer-related expositions worldwide, and provides IT market analysis through 50 offices in 43 countries worldwide. Company information is available at http://www.idg.com. |
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