CreSenda Wireless and Deloitte & Touche Form Agreement to Provide Wireless Enterprise Services.Business Editors LOS LOS Length of stay, see there ANGELES--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 20, 2000 Services Allow Mobile Professionals To Access Their Company Network Through Handheld handheld: see personal digital assistant. Devices CreSenda Wireless today announced an agreement with Deloitte & Touche LLP LLP - Lower Layer Protocol , one of the nation's leading professional services (job) professional services - A department of a supplier providing consultancy and programming manpower for the supplier's products. firms specializing in e-business. Under the terms of the agreement, the companies will exchange certain technological information and cross-train on infrastructure focused on selected vertical markets. This will enable Deloitte & Touche to integrate CreSenda's Wireless Professional Series(sm), a wireless handheld service designed to improve the productivity of mobile professionals worldwide, with large corporations' enterprise-wide back-end systems and infrastructure. "This agreement with Deloitte & Touche is key to our mission of providing mobile professionals with wireless access to business-critical information," said Alex Klyce, vice president of business development and general counsel for CreSenda. "As a leader in e-business consulting and systems integration services, Deloitte & Touche will help their clients to seamlessly integrate our wireless product and services with back-office enterprise systems to improve productivity and access information away from the office." "We are seeing tremendous demand from our clients and from the market in general to deliver real-time 1. real-time - Describes an application which requires a program to respond to stimuli within some small upper limit of response time (typically milli- or microseconds). Process control at a chemical plant is the classic example. company information to remote users," said Scott Kandel, e-business partner at Deloitte & Touche. "We are excited to be positioning ourselves to integrate their handheld wireless services with large corporate systems." Using CreSenda's Wireless Professional Wireless Series as an extension of a company's enterprise network, it is anticipated that mobile professionals will be able to access corporate data, work calendar, access loan information and parameters, networked information and more. The CreSenda Wireless Professional Series, scheduled to launch this summer, is an integrated wireless handheld service that includes hardware (handheld device and wireless modem A modem and antenna that transmits and receives over the air. Wireless modems support several technologies, including 802.11, Bluetooth, CDPD, DataTAC, Mobitex and Ricochet. There are wireless modems for laptops, handhelds and cellphones. ); market-specific 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 content, applications, and other products; unlimited connect time; and comprehensive customer care. The result is an innovative service requiring minimal end-user configuration -- where the customer can rely on CreSenda for all technology management issues. About CreSenda Wireless CreSenda Wireless, led by former senior engineering, sales, operations, and marketing executives from Palm/3Com, Verizon Wireless Cellco Partnership, doing business as Verizon Wireless, owns and operates the second largest wireless telecommunications network in the United States, based on total wireless customers. (formerly AirTouch), and GeoCities/Yahoo!, provides mobile professionals with industry-specific content, applications, and wireless connectivity deployed through handheld devices. CreSenda's Wireless Professional Series(sm) is a best-of-breed service composed of wireless connectivity, hardware, applications, and content customized to meet the vertical market-specific business and communications needs of the mobile professional. Focusing on customer care (customer service, technical support, and a national call center), connectivity (facilitating transmission of vital data for customers on the go) and vertical content (specific, relevant, customized content and applications for each vertical market), the company's offering will be commercially available this summer. CreSenda Wireless is headquartered in Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. , California California (kăl'ĭfôr`nyə), most populous state in the United States, located in the Far West; bordered by Oregon (N), Nevada and, across the Colorado River, Arizona (E), Mexico (S), and the Pacific Ocean (W). , and can be found online at www.cresenda.com. The company also operates an online handheld accessories store at www.handgear.com. CreSenda, CreSenda Wireless, HandGear, and Wireless Professional Series are service marks and trademarks of CreSenda, Inc. 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