Danger Enters Australian Market Offering Award-Winning Mobile Internet Experience to Telstra Customers.New Operator Partner Adds Momentum to Danger's Growth PALO ALTO Palo Alto, city, California Palo Alto (păl`ō ăl`tō), city (1990 pop. 55,900), Santa Clara co., W Calif.; inc. 1894. Although primarily residential, Palo Alto has aerospace, electronics, and advanced research industries. , Calif. -- Danger, Inc. today announced the availability of its mobile Internet Refers to gaining access to the Internet using a lightweight, handheld device. See Mobile IP, PDA, smartphone and mobile TV. service in Australia with the launch of the Telstra hiptop2. Danger's entry into this market is another milestone for the company, building on the widespread popularity of Danger-powered devices, like the hiptop, that are sold in 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. and Europe. The Telstra hiptop2 will be offered with unlimited data pricing for Australian consumers. Telstra is the market leader in Australia with over 8 million mobile subscribers, making the company a significant new partner for Danger. "Entering the Australian market is a promising development for Danger," said Henry R. Nothhaft, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Danger, Inc. "By entering new geographies, we are positioning the company for further growth." Danger-Powered Devices Danger-powered devices feature an award-winning software experience. In addition to a full-featured mobile phone and digital organizer, they provide an entire suite of mobile Internet applications, including HTML HTML in full HyperText Markup Language Markup language derived from SGML that is used to prepare hypertext documents. Relatively easy for nonprogrammers to master, HTML is the language used for documents on the World Wide Web. 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. , push e-mail and instant messaging. Because of Danger's powerful operating system, multiple applications on the device run concurrently and interact with each other, providing a desktop-like multitasking multitasking Mode of computer operation in which the computer works on multiple tasks at the same time. A task is a computer program (or part of a program) that can be run as a separate entity. experience that has resonated with consumers. The Danger Service Behind each Danger-powered device is the Danger service, an innovative client/server software infrastructure that delivers data, such as instant messages and Web pages, in real-time. Using a world class data center the Danger service optimizes, compresses and then sends data securely over the wireless network to the device. The combined benefit is a high-performance user-experience for consumers and efficient use of network resources for wireless operators. Danger also uses the back-end service to provide ongoing software updates to devices already in the field. Using over-the-air (OTA (Over The Air) Refers to any wireless system such as AM/FM radio and network television that uses open space as its transmission medium. ) technology, Danger provides upgraded software to users as it becomes available, including new features and other improvements. Danger has been a leader in this technology since launching the Danger service four years ago. For further information about Telstra and the Telstra hiptop2, please visit: www.telstra.com/hiptop About Danger, Inc. Danger provides a complete solution that enables wireless operators to offer innovative mobile data products to consumers over next-generation wireless networks. Danger's mobile Internet platform is a Java-compatible, client/server software infrastructure and application suite that delivers an easy-to-use, personalized mobile Internet experience for consumers. Founded in January 2000, Danger is a privately held company privately held company A firm whose shares are held within a relatively small circle of owners and are not traded publicly. backed by leading venture capital firms Name Location Founding date Managing Partners/Directors Specialty Capital managed 5AM Ventures Menlo Park, CA; Waltham, MA 2002 John Diekman, PhD (managing partner), Scott Rocklage, PhD (managing partner), Andrew Schwab (managing partner) life sciences $200M [1] and corporate investors. Danger is based in Palo Alto, Calif. Additional information about the company is available at www.danger.com. |
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