Electric Pocket Brings Electronic ``Yellow Sticky'' Messaging To Palm OS Handhelds.Business Editors CHEPSTOW, Wales--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 15, 2000 Those little yellow sticky Refers to an application or service that keeps you on a Web site. For example, stock quotes, glossaries, educational material, chat rooms and similar offerings give you reason to remain on the site, while it allows the company to show you more ads or proprietary messages. notes are no longer piling up on computer screens and phones. Now users of wireless handheld devices can electronically send and receive those little reminders while away from the office too. Electric Pocket today announced a unique new messaging service that greatly simplifies communication between wireless Palm OS(R) handhelds and the 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 . Based on the company's award-winning BugMe! "yellow sticky" note taker tak·er n. One that takes or takes up something, such as a wager or purchase: There were no takers on the bets. taker Noun , BugMe! Messenger allows users to exchange handwritten hand·write tr.v. hand·wrote , hand·writ·ten , hand·writ·ing, hand·writes To write by hand. [Back-formation from handwritten.] Adj. 1. , text and graphic notes between wireless Palm OS handhelds and Internet email. BugMe! Messenger users create messages on the Palm handheld using their own handwriting HANDWRITING, evidence. Almost every person's handwriting has something whereby it may be distinguished from the writing of others, and this difference is sometimes intended by the term. 2. , sketches or text. Messages can be sent to any Internet email address See Internet address. , where they arrive as small graphic "yellow sticky" style notes. BugMe! Messenger users receive notes on their Palm handhelds through Electric Pocket's free BugMe.net service. Each user is given a BugMe.net email address and messages sent to this address are delivered to their Palm handheld. BugMe! Messenger uses Electric Pocket's BugMe.net service to provide "yellow sticky" messaging capabilities to any wireless Palm handheld, such as a Palm V equipped with service from OmniSky, or a Palm VII The Palm VII product family consisted of two products, the Palm VII and the Palm VIIx Palm Pilots. These were produced by Palm, Inc., before it was split into PalmOne and PalmSource. They had antennas for wireless data communication on the Mobitex network under the now defunct Palm. . Messages can be sent between Palm handhelds and the Internet or directly from Palm-to-Palm. "The convenience and ease of use of BugMe! Messenger really does Warren Trotter, better known as Really Doe, is an American rapper from Chicago, Illinois. He is affiliated with Kanye West and his G.O.O.D. Music family and label. Discography Songs
"Our customers love BugMe! Messenger because it allows them to exchange notes using their wireless handheld device much the same way they would do in the office," said Randy Eisenman, president of Handango. "We are pleased to offer this valuable communication tool to our customers." BugMe! Messenger extends Electric Pocket's pioneering approach to note taking on the Palm OS platform. The company's BugMe! product lets users capture notes with their own handwriting, by drawing directly onto the Palm handheld's screen. BugMe! has been downloaded by over 350,000 users since its launch in 1997, and is a Palm Computing computing - computer Platinum Solution. BugMe! Messenger is available for immediate download To receive a file transmitted over a network. In any communications session, "download" means receive, and "upload" means send. The download/upload often implies a big/little scenario, in which data is being downloaded from the "big" server into the "little" user's computer. from the BugMe.net Web site (www.bugme.net) and Handango (www.handango.com), the leading publisher of handheld and wireless applications. About Electric Pocket: Electric Pocket Limited is based in Chepstow, UK and was formed in January 2000 to research and develop wireless computing services and technologies, based upon work done by award-winning Palm OS software company Haus Of Maus. Electric Pocket focused on inventing new applications and services that exploit the potential for wireless computing to change people's lives. Electric Pocket concentrates on building the technologies that enable these new services, and works with industry-leading partners to bring them to the world. Electric Pocket's unique strength lies in its ability to understand the needs of real people and its flair for using technologies to meet those needs in reliable, robust and innovative ways. For more information, visit the company's web site at www.electricpocket.com. |
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