Cutting Edge Software Celebrates Recent Awards for Quicksheet With October Discount Promotion.Business Editors & High-Tech Writers DALLAS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 3, 2000 Leading Spreadsheet Software for Palm Devices to be Offered At 25% Discount During October Cutting Edge Software, Inc., in celebration of the recent awards bestowed upon its Quicksheet spreadsheet application for Palm OSTM OSTM Ocean Surface Topography Mission (Jason-2) OSTM Oil Spill Trajectory Modelling 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. , today announces a special promotion to be run through the month of October. Through October 31, Quicksheet will be discounted to $29.95 from its original MSRP MSRP Manufacturer's Suggested Retail Price MSRP Message Session Relay Protocol MSRP Multi-Species Recovery Plan (US Fish & Wildlife Service) MSRP Member of the Society for Radiological Protection (UK) of $39.95. Since July, Quicksheet has received honors from two of the leading publications covering the new Palm Economy. In July, The Piloteer awarded Quicksheet with its "2000 Award of Excellence," and in September, VisorCentral.com, the leading online resource for owners of Handspring hand·spring n. A gymnastic feat in which the body is flipped completely forward or backward from an upright position, landing first on the hands and then on the feet. Visor An electronic PDA originally from Handspring, Mountain View, CA (www.handspring.com) that was introduced in 1999 by the people who invented and marketed the PalmPilot. Based on the Palm OS, it was the first handheld to use the USB interface. handheld computers, recognized Quicksheet as its "Application of the Year." Since its introduction in 1997, as the first editable spreadsheet application for the Palm OS, Quicksheet has maintained its position as the leading application among Palm spreadsheets. Quicksheet's strong market position is evidenced by its consistent ranking as one of the top commercial downloads at PalmGear HQ, one of the best online destinations for customers seeking software for Palm devices. Even with thousands of applications now on the market for the Palm OS, Quicksheet is continually ranked among PalmGear's top five most downloaded applications of all time. "While reviewer after reviewer has continually picked Quicksheet as the best spreadsheet for the Palm OS, the most meaningful statement of the product's superiority comes from the overwhelming acceptance by our customers," said Jeff Musa, president of Cutting Edge Software, Inc. "Recognition from industry experts is worthy of celebration and we thought the best way to celebrate was to lower the price and encourage more Palm users to discover the power and simplicity of Quicksheet." About Quicksheet Quicksheet is the most comprehensive and feature-rich spreadsheet application available on the market today for handheld computers running the Palm OS such as the Sony Clie, TRGPro, Handspring Visor, and devices from Symbol, and Palm, Inc. Using HotSync(TM) technology, Quicksheet provides seamless and bi-directional connectivity, and even synchronization (1) See synchronous and synchronous transmission. (2) Ensuring that two sets of data are always the same. See data synchronization. (3) Keeping time-of-day clocks in two devices set to the same time. See NTP. of changes, with Microsoft(R) Excel(TM). Because of its tight integration with Microsoft Excel (tool) Microsoft Excel - A spreadsheet program from Microsoft, part of their Microsoft Office suite of productivity tools for Microsoft Windows and Macintosh. Excel is probably the most widely used spreadsheet in the world. Latest version: Excel 97, as of 1997-01-14. , users can access their Excel spreadsheets on their Palm OS handheld devices for viewing and editing, or create spreadsheets on the Palm computer and synchronize See synchronization. them back to Excel on their desktop. Financial analysis and "what-if" investigations can be performed directly at decision points in meetings, rather than being delayed until someone "runs the numbers" back at their desk. Version 5.0 of Quicksheet, released in May 2000, added a host of usability enhancements and spreadsheet functions. The company also incorporated many new "enterprise-class" features for large-scale enterprises looking to deploy handheld devices to increase the productivity of their mobile workers. These features include: the ability to e-mail spreadsheet attachments to and from the device, direct syncing with ODBC (Open DataBase Connectivity) A database programming interface from Microsoft that provides a common language for Windows applications to access databases on a network. databases on network servers, out-of-the-box integration with Symbol handheld bar-code scanning devices See scanner. for data input, analysis and display, among others. Indeed, many of these new enterprise customers have helped push the product into the ranks of the most popular Palm OS software in existence. About Cutting Edge Software, Inc. Cutting Edge Software, Inc. develops, markets and supports business and productivity software solutions for the mobile professional. The company's flagship products A primary product of a company, which is typically why the company was founded and/or what made it well known. For example, MS-DOS, Windows and the Microsoft Office suite have been flagship products of Microsoft. CorelDRAW is a flagship product of Corel Corporation. , Quicksheet and SmartDoc, both won "Best in Class" honors for 1998 and 1999 by Tap Magazine (now Handheld Computing). For more information, visit www.cesinc.com or call 800/991-7360. International inquiries should call 214/956-9806. Palm Computing is a registered trademark of Palm, Inc. All other brands and product names may be trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective companies. |
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