DiamondWare Brings Military-Proven Collaboration Technology to New Markets.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers MESA, Ariz.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec. 2, 2003 DiamondWare, Ltd. announces Palantir(TM), its collaborative communications product for secure instant messaging Exchanging text messages in real time between two or more people logged into a particular instant messaging (IM) service. Instant messaging is more interactive than e-mail because messages are sent immediately, whereas e-mail messages can be queued up in a mail server for seconds or , presence and availability, voice, and conferencing. It can scale up to 60 simultaneous voice users on commodity hardware, making it inexpensive to deploy in SOHO Soho (sōhō`, sə–), district of Westminster, London, England, known for its continental restaurants. Once a fashionable quarter, it became popular among writers and artists in the 19th cent. and SME markets. Palantir is a truly infrastructure-independent, and does not require a carrier, PBX (Private Branch eXchange) An inhouse telephone switching system that interconnects telephone extensions to each other as well as to the outside telephone network (PSTN). , or other expensive gear. The company will release a shrink-wrapped enterprise solution in 2Q04, for sale through channel partners who can capitalize on Cap´i`tal`ize on` v. t. 1. To turn (an opportunity) to one's advantage; to take advantage of (a situation); to profit from; as, to capitalize on an opponent's mistakes s>. selling revolutionary technologies to the SOHO and SME market segments. Palantir is already in use by groups within the US military and is also suited for civil agencies, hospitals, homeland defense, fleet operators, and other voice over two-way radio A voice network that provides an always-on connection enabling the user to just "push the button and talk." Also called "dispatch radio," two-way radio has traditionally been used by police, fire, taxi and other mobile fleets. customers. Palantir has just been awarded "Product of the Year" by Communications Convergence magazine. "(We) were enormously impressed with their stuff," said the editors of Communications Convergence magazine, in awarding Palantir their prestigious "Product of the Year". "What truly cinched the "Product of the Year" win, however, was the fact that DiamondWare does useful things with stereo imaging and inline audio signal processing Audio signal processing, sometimes referred to as audio processing, is the processing of a representation of auditory signals, or sound. The representation can be digital or analog. . Palantir conference participants can tweak little sliders sliders a species of tortoise kept as pets. They have a black shell and a red stripe behind the eye. Called also Chrysemys scripta elegans, red-eared sliders. to 'position' their interlocutors in audio space, making it vastly easier to remember who's who," they said in their review. "The technology goes beyond minutes, and beyond sessions. Users remain logged in whenever their computers are turned on, and just have 'sessionless' communications with one or more others, via text and voice as appropriate. Users can see others' presence and availability, and maximize efficiency and minimize wasted time," Erik Lorenzen, DiamondWare's VP of Engineering, said. "When we got started making media stacks for softphones, we had a vision for how computers and PDAs could revolutionize voice communications. We have followed through on our vision with Palantir," said Keith Weiner, DiamondWare's CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. . According to Weiner, "Palantir is a significant first step in that it obviates the need for phone equipment on the desk or in the server closet." DiamondWare has deployed Palantir technology internally. A white paper case study is published at http://www.dw.com/files/casestudy.pdf. About DiamondWare DiamondWare is a software development company focused on developing strategic voice and audio technologies for the telephony, military and game markets. Since 1994, it has delivered a number of firsts and bests including most efficient 16-voice mixer, lowest-latency softphone, and a complete software-based conference system that runs on commodity hardware. |
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