Datalink.net Joins Phone.com Alliance; Company to Join Alliance in Two Categories.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers SAN JOSE San Jose, city, United States San Jose (sănəzā`, săn hōzā`), city (1990 pop. 782,248), seat of Santa Clara co., W central Calif.; founded 1777, inc. 1850. , Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--July 31, 2000 Datalink.net (AMEX AMEX See: American Stock Exchange :DLK DLK Diffuse Lamellar Keratitis DLK Double-lined Kraft (recycled paper) DLK Digital Logic Kernel DLK Dynamically Loadable Kernel ), a leading Wireless Application Service Provider (w-ASP), today announced that it has joined the Phone.com(TM) Alliance Program as an application developer and consultant/systems Integrator (1) In electronics, a device that combines an input with a variable, such as time, and provides an analog output; for example, a watt-hour meter. (2) See systems integrator. . As a member of the Phone.com Alliance Program, Datalink.net develops applications, content, and solutions for mobile phones equipped with Internet microbrowsers, such as the Phone.com UP.Browser(TM) microbrowser A Web browser designed for small display screens on smartphones and other handheld wireless devices. See smartphone and WAP. . This significantly enhances the reach of Datalink.net's current WAP-enabled offerings and ensures tight integration with future WAP (1) (Wireless Access Point) See access point. (2) (Wireless Application Protocol) A standard for providing cellular phones, pagers and other handheld devices with secure access to e-mail and text-based Web pages. applications and services. Datalink.net developed Net-2-GO, a wireless Internet enabled product that makes it possible to retrieve real-time information through WAP enabled phones. The application allows users to retrieve a wide variety of information including stock quotes, financial and headline news, sports, weather, horoscopes, lottery, trivia, and much more when and where it is most useful to them. "Phone.com is the industry standard, and joining their alliance affirms our position among the leading developers of wireless applications and solutions," said Pamela LaPine, Executive Vice President of Corporate Strategy and Business Development for Datalink.net. "This agreement is also consistent with our core strategy of securing alliances and partnerships with elite companies in key wireless technology areas." The Phone.com Alliance Program has two aims. The first is to promote the concept of wireless information access, and the second is to coordinate the exchange of ideas and information among Alliances Program members, other companies developing wireless Internet products and services, and Phone.com's network operators. Datalink.net joins a growing list of alliance members that includes content providers, application developers, tools providers and systems integrators An individual or organization that builds systems from a variety of diverse components. With increasing complexity of technology, more customers want complete solutions to information problems, requiring hardware, software and networking expertise in a multivendor environment. using the Phone.com Product Family. For more information about Phone.com, please visit their Web site at http://www.phone.com. Datalink.net -- Where the Web Meets Wireless(TM) Datalink.net is a leading wireless application service provider (w-ASP) that delivers end-to-end wireless data solutions to enterprises and custom data applications to their customers. As today's premier provider of consumer wireless data, and the first to deliver real-time wireless financial information, Datalink.net pioneered the development of wireless information technology. Today, Datalink.net enables a new generation of wireless devices that allow enterprises and consumers to customize, respond and interact with critical data. Its XpressLink technology processes high-speed data content feeds or corporate databases for wireless applications that are compatible with the entire range of wireless devices, networks and protocols. Founded in 1993, Datalink.net is based in San Jose, Calif. with research facilities in Vancouver, British Columbia British Columbia, province (2001 pop. 3,907,738), 366,255 sq mi (948,600 sq km), including 6,976 sq mi (18,068 sq km) of water surface, W Canada. Geography . For more information: http://www.datalink.net. This release contains forward-looking statements forward-looking statement A projected financial statement based on management expectations. A forward-looking statement involves risks with regard to the accuracy of assumptions underlying the projections. within the meaning of the Securities Act of 1933 and the Securities Exchange Act of 1934. Although the Company believes that the expectations reflected in the forward-looking statements and assumptions upon which forward-looking statements are based are reasonable it can give no assurance that such expectations and assumptions will prove to have been correct. Note to Editors: Phone.com, and the family of terms carrying the "UP." prefix The beginning or to add to the beginning. To prefix a header onto a packet means to place the header characters in front of the packet. "To prefix" at the beginning is the opposite of "to append" characters at the end. See prepend. 1. are trademarks, and UP.Browser is a registered trademark, of Phone.com, Inc. All other trademarks and registered trademarks are the properties of their respective owners |
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