Electric Pocket Releases BugMe! Messenger 2.0; Now All Palm Powered Handheld Users Can Send Handwritten and Photo Messages.Business Editors & High Tech Writers WYE VALLEY
Electric Pocket Limited today announces the release of BugMe! Messenger 2.0. BugMe! Messenger is a note-taking, reminder and messaging application for Palm Powered(TM) 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. . BugMe! Messenger lets users take notes with their own handwriting by drawing directly on the screens of their Palm OS(R) devices. Notes can also be made from annotated digital photographs. Any BugMe! note can be used as alarmed reminders or sent as email messages to colleagues. Version 2.0 offers users of all Palm Powered handhelds the benefits of 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. and photo messaging Taking a picture with a cellphone and sending it to someone. A photo messaging phone enables the user to aim it, take a picture and transmit it. If recipients do not have photo-enabled cellphones, they are directed to a Web page where they can view the images. by providing a conduit that will automatically send BugMe! messages upon 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. with the users' desktop PCs. Other key new features include support for Kodak's PalmPix digital camera and the capability for users to create "Buddy Lists A list of colleagues, workgroup members, friends, etc., that you might wish to communicate with via instant messaging. See instant messaging. " to simplify the task of selecting recipients for BugMe! messages. BugMe! Messenger v. 2.0's new PC desktop conduit enables users of non-wireless handhelds to send and receive BugMe! notes when they perform a HotSync between their Palm Powered handhelds and desktop PCs. During HotSync, messages are automatically sent from the user's handheld with the PC's Internet connection. BugMe! notes can be sent to any email address See Internet address. , where they can be read without additional software. The BugMe! note appears as a small graphic in the message. The BugMe! Messenger conduit also checks for incoming messages addressed to the user and delivers them to his or her handheld. A notification of incoming messages is generated upon the completion of the HotSync process. "BugMe! Messenger gives handheld users an effortless ef·fort·less adj. Calling for, requiring, or showing little or no effort. See Synonyms at easy. ef  fort·less·ly adv. way to share information captured on the move," said Iain Barclay, co-founder and chief products officer of Electric Pocket. "Extending the benefits of BugMe! Messenger to users of all Palm Powered handhelds, regardless of whether they are equipped with wireless services, will greatly expand the potential market for sending and receiving short handwritten, graphic or photo messages via handheld devices. Users are able to capture notes when the idea strikes and share them quickly with friends, family and colleagues." Earlier this year, Electric Pocket announced that BugMe! Messenger would support IDEO's eyemodule camera for Handspring 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. Now, with new integration with Kodak's PalmPix series cameras, Electric Pocket has greatly expanded the market for photo messaging services by opening up the application to users of the two major digital cameras for Palm Powered handhelds. Photographs can be imported directly into the BugMe! Messenger application at the time they are taken with either the PalmPix or eyemodule cameras, or the image files can be imported from the camera's database at a later time. The user can then annotate annotate - annotation the photograph directly on the screen of his or her handheld and send it as an email message to any email address. BugMe! Messenger also enables users to send the original 640 x 480 jpeg image directly from their Palm Powered handheld. Industry observers agree that wireless "photo messaging" provides a tremendous new opportunity in the handheld computing arena. As recently stated in IDG IDG International Data Group IDG Integrated Drive Generator IDG Installation Design Guide IDG Internet Discussion Group IDG Inset Dielectric Guide IDG International Dangerous Goods (mail, shipping) Executive Group's influential DEMOletter, "We think applications like BugMe! Messenger will help drive adoption of digital cameras and handhelds in any market where providing quick access to photos can be a critical resource. The insurance industry, law enforcement, as well as real estate are all great examples where this type of fast access to photos from the field is important." BugMe! Messenger's photo messages are screen-sized renderings of digital images with optional handwritten annotation 1. (programming, compiler) annotation - Extra information associated with a particular point in a document or program. Annotations may be added either by a compiler or by the programmer. . While ideal for informal sharing of images from a mobile device, for both business and leisure, there are circumstances when it is necessary to send a higher quality image from a remote location. BugMe! Messenger v. 2.0 enables wireless handheld users to send 'full sized' jpeg photographs taken with a Kodak PalmPix or IDEO eyemodule camera directly from their handheld to any email address. Electric Pocket's goal throughout the development of BugMe! Messenger has been to expand upon the simplicity and ease-of-use that makes the original BugMe! application one of the most popular Palm OS applications of all time. Continuing this tradition, BugMe! Messenger 2.0 extends this approach to sending messages by providing a simple method of selecting message recipients. BugMe! Messenger's new "buddy list" enables a user to select a recipient's email address from his or her handheld's address book or quickly choose from a list of previous contacts. BugMe! Messenger is available in two editions, Personal and Business. BugMe! Messenger, Personal Edition, sells for $29.95 per user. The Business Edition is $29.95, plus $4.95 per month, and includes free upgrades and priority support. Both editions come with a free BugMe.net email address. About Electric Pocket Limited Electric Pocket was founded in January 2000 to build upon the mobile and wireless computing technologies of Haus of Maus, the developer of the award-winning BugMe! application for Palm Powered handheld computers. Headquartered in the scenic Wye Valley of Wales Wales, Welsh Cymru, western peninsula and political division (principality) of Great Britain (1991 pop. 2,798,200), 8,016 sq mi (20,761 sq km), west of England; politically united with England since 1536. The capital is Cardiff. , U.K., the company is spearheaded by a team of experienced technology engineers and visionary experts in mobile and wireless technologies. Electric Pocket offers innovative mobile computing Using a computing device while in transit. Mobile computing implies wireless transmission, but wireless transmission does not necessarily imply mobile computing. Fixed wireless applications use satellites, radio systems and lasers to transmit between permanent objects such as buildings solutions and consultancy services. The company's flagship product 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. , BugMe!, allows users to jot freehand See Macromedia FreeHand. notes to themselves directly on the screens of either Palm Powered or Pocket PC handheld devices. These notes conveniently "pop up" on the screen of a user's Palm device and sound an alarm to serve as a reminder. With the launch of the company's unique BugMe! Messenger application, users of Palm Powered computers have a convenient means to keep in touch while on the move. Electric Pocket's consulting group has provided leading-edge solutions to global companies such as Gap and Ubinetics. For more information, visit www.electricpocket.com. Palm OS is a registered trademark, and Palm and Palm Powered are trademarks of Palm, Inc. or its subsidiaries. All other products, service and company names are trademarks, registered trademarks or services marks of their respective owners. |
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