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BELMONT, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 20, 2001 Covigo Platform(TM) Enables World's Leading Cricket Information Company, CricInfo, to Offer Live Cricket Scores, News and Information Wirelessly to Its 15 Million Users Around the World Covigo, Inc., the wireless platform provider enabling businesses to adapt to the changing mobile world, has successfully wireless-enabled CricInfo's business-to-consumer web site (www.cricinfo.com). The application, deployed on a hosted version of the patent-pending Covigo Platform provides users with access to live cricket scores and up to the minute news and information whenever and wherever they want it. As part of its strategic goal to provide its informational and transactional services over multiple media platforms, CricInfo undertook an ambitious project to launch the CricInfo wireless service within a period of a few weeks. CricInfo is rapidly joining the ranks of companies in other industries such as business travel, 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. and communications who are wireless-enabling their applications in order to increase user loyalty and expand revenue opportunities. The Covigo Platform provides a completely network and device agnostic wireless solution, enabling CricInfo to make its wireless site accessible from any Internet enabled mobile phone, 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). , or other wireless device, connected to any type of wireless network, such as GSM and CDMA (Code Division Multiple Access) A method for transmitting simultaneous signals over a shared portion of the spectrum. The foremost application of CDMA is the digital cellular phone technology from QUALCOMM that operates in the 800 MHz band and 1.9 GHz PCS band. . This is a key requirement for CricInfo because cricket has a global following with large fan bases in Australia, U.K., Asia, North America North America, third largest continent (1990 est. pop. 365,000,000), c.9,400,000 sq mi (24,346,000 sq km), the northern of the two continents of the Western Hemisphere. , Southern Africa
"Time was of the essence for CricInfo, as we had a very tight schedule to get the wireless site operational before an England Test match. Covigo was able to offer a swift and painless implementation cycle and the ability to handle all sorts of networks, which was an absolutely vital consideration for us when we selected a wireless applications platform. CricInfo is now able to concentrate on increasing revenues and enhancing the service it offers visitors to the site without worrying about compatibility issues wherever they are logging on from," said Peter Griffiths Peter Harry Steve Griffiths (born May 24, 1928) is a retired English Conservative Party politician. Life He attended West Bromwich Grammar School, Leeds Teacher Training College and London and Birmingham Universities before entering a teaching career. CricInfo's Managing Director. "With the deployment of the Covigo Platform, we are able to reach our 15 million users on a minute-by-minute basis." "Covigo's platform is powerful and robust enough to generate hundreds of pages in different formats every second from the same database that powers CricInfo's conventional web site. Covigo will also enable CricInfo to offer SMS (1) (Storage Management System) Software used to routinely back up and archive files. See HSM. (2) (Systems Management Server) Systems management software from Microsoft that runs on Windows NT Server. alerts during Test matches to fans, irrespective of irrespective of prep. Without consideration of; regardless of. irrespective of preposition despite the type of network they are connected to," said Ken Morton, General Manager, Covigo Europe. The Covigo solution had to be able to accommodate rapid buildout of wireless applications independent of the mobile channels accessed by CricInfo's customers. The Covigo Platform was identified as the preferred wireless application platform and one that would support rapid development and deployment of enterprise-class applications across voice and visual mobile channels. Key to the development of the project and the forward development of the solution is the facility for CricInfo's team to leverage Covigo's expertise and experience in wireless technologies to ensure delivery of additional applications in the future and adaptation to changes in end-user requirements and wireless technologies. About CricInfo CricInfo, Ltd, based in Wiltshire, U.K., is the world's leading cricket information company. Its web site, www.cricinfo.com, is the most popular cricket web site in the world, attracting over 100 million page impressions per month from an estimated 15 million fans in 180 countries. CricInfo produces official sites for eight of the ten Test playing countries, the International Cricket International Cricket is a cricket game for the Nintendo Entertainment System that was only released in Australia in 1992. Developed by Melbourne House (as Beam Software) and published by Mattel, it was the only cricket game released for the NES. Council and a number of domestic teams worldwide. About Covigo Covigo is the wireless platform provider addressing the needs of enterprises to offer wireless applications and information services See Information Systems. to their customers and employees to adapt to the changing wireless world. Covigo's unique software platform enables Global 2000 companies to build, deploy and manage wireless applications using Covigo's integrated voice and data applications capabilities with a rapid development and deployment environment and end-to-end secure transactional capabilities. The Company's technology powers wireless solutions across a vast array of mobile channels such as WAP-enabled phones, SMS-enabled devices, PDAs and voice-only telephones. Covigo's software platform integrates seamlessly with various data sources such as databases, XML XML in full Extensible Markup Language. Markup language developed to be a simplified and more structural version of SGML. It incorporates features of HTML (e.g., hypertext linking), but is designed to overcome some of HTML's limitations. feeds and application data formats. Founded in 1999, Covigo is based in Belmont, California Belmont is a city in San Mateo County, California, United States. It is a small suburb in the San Francisco Bay Area, located half-way down the San Francisco Peninsula between San Mateo and San Carlos. The population was 25,123 at the 2000 census. with European headquarters in London, U.K. The company is backed by Norwest Venture Partners and Nokia Venture Partners. To learn more about Covigo's innovative wireless solutions, visit www.covigo.com. Note to Editors: Covigo is a trademark of Covigo, Inc. All other trademarks contained herein are trademarks of their respective owners. |
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