Corel to Develop Personal Digital Assistant.OTTAWA--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 9, 1996--COREL CORPORATION(TSE See Tokyo Stock Exchange. TSE 1. See Tokyo Stock Exchange (TSE). 2. See Toronto Stock Exchange (TSE). : COS NASDAQ NASDAQ in full National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations U.S. market for over-the-counter securities. Established in 1971 by the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD), NASDAQ is an automated quotation system that reports on : COSFF) Corel Corporation has announced its intent to enter the Personal Digital Assistant market with plans to ship product by the middle of 1997. Aside from offering all the standard personal information management capabilities for scheduling, contact management and voice annotation, Corel's PDA (Personal Digital Assistant) A handheld computer for managing contacts, appointments and tasks. It typically includes a name and address database, calendar, to-do list and note taker, which are the functions in a personal information manager (see PIM). will enable users to browse the World Wide Web, prepare notes using either a keyboard or handwriting recognition, and send and retrieve email. Users will also be able to synchronize their databases with the office or home base while on line or connected to a keyboard docking station. All applications, including the Web browser The program that serves as your front end to the Web on the Internet. In order to view a site, you type its address (URL) into the browser's Location field; for example, www.computerlanguage.com, and the home page of that site is downloaded to you. , will be written in Sun Microsystem's Java(TM) programming language and will allow users to run Java applets downloaded from the Internet. The open-standard operating system * which will allow third-party developers to write their own programs for the system - will be embedded as a kernel into the PDA with the Java Virtual Machine A Java interpreter. The Java Virtual Machine (JVM) is software that converts the Java intermediate language (bytecode) into machine language and executes it. The original JVM came from the JavaSoft division of Sun. (TM) running on top of that kernel. "We are cutting new ground with this product in that it will be a complete software solution," said Dr. Michael Cowpland, president and chief executive officer of Corel Corporation. "With an open-standard operating system, access to the Internet, and the ability to fax and email messages or synchronize data through a regular telephone line, our PDA will indeed be unique in the market place." This pocket device will enable the user to choose between either a monochrome or a color LCD screen and will run on a high-performance RISC processor. It will also come with re-chargeable batteries, a built-in modem for use with either a standard or cellular telephone, a wall-mount adapter, and a keyboard docking station for synchronizing data and re-charging batteries. Users will hold the PDA in a portrait position to access the PIM (1) (Protocol Independent Multicast) A multicast routing protocol endorsed by the IETF. Used in conjunction with an existing unicast routing protocol, it comes in two flavors: Dense Mode (PIM-DM) is used when recipients in the target group are in a concentrated functions and in a landscape position for Internet browsing and emailing. Approximately three by four inches in size, Corel's PDA will retail for under $500 US. Corel Corporation Incorporated in 1985, Corel Corporation is recognized internationally as an award-winning developer and marketer of productivity applications, graphics and multimedia software. Corel's product line includes CorelDRAW(TM), Corel(R) WordPerfect(R) Suite, Corel(R) Office Professional, CorelVIDEO(TM) and over 30 multimedia software titles. Corel's products run on most operating systems, including - Windows, Macintosh, UNIX UNIX Operating system for digital computers, developed by Ken Thompson of Bell Laboratories in 1969. It was initially designed for a single user (the name was a pun on the earlier operating system Multics). , MS-DOS MS-DOS in full Microsoft Disk Operating System Operating system for personal computers. MS-DOS was based on DOS, developed in 1980 by Seattle Computer Products. Microsoft Corp. bought the rights to DOS in 1981, and released MS-DOS with IBM's PC that year. and OS/2 and are consistently rated among the strongest in the industry. The company ships its products in over 17 languages through a network of more than 160 distributors in 70 countries worldwide. Corel is traded on the Toronto Stock Exchange Toronto Stock Exchange (TSE) Canada's largest stock exchange, trading approximately 1,200 company stocks and 33 options. (symbol - COS) and the NASDAQ - National Market System (symbol - COSFF). For more information visit Corel's home page on the Internet at http://www.corel.com. -0- Corel and WordPerfect are registered trademarks and CorelDRAW and CorelVIDEO are trademarks of Corel Corporation or Corel Corporation Limited. Java and other Java-based names are trademarks of Sun Microsystems, Inc. and refer to Sun's Java technologies. All product and company names are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective companies. CONTACT: Corel Corporation Press Contact, 613/728-0826 ext. 1326 |
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