HP, NOKIA TO DEVELOP INTERNET-BASED PLATFORM FOR IMPROVED MOBILE SERVICES.Hewlett-Packard Company (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange : HWP HWP Height (and) Weight Proportionate HWP Half-Wave Plate HWP Highway Patrol HWP Height Weight Proportional HWP Hewlett-Packard Corporation (stock symbol) HWP Hydrolyzed Whey Peptides ) and Nokia Corporation (NYSE: NOK NOK In currencies, this is the abbreviation for the Norwegian Krone. Notes: The currency market, also known as the Foreign Exchange market, is the largest financial market in the world, with a daily average volume of over US $1 trillion. ) has announced an agreement to develop solutions built on an Internet-based platform that is intended to lead to a broad proliferation of mobile e-services. An initial application would enable a person using a Nokia mobile phone to direct an HP printer to print a document from the Web. Using solutions based on industry standards such as IR, vCard or Bluetooth, the mobile phones would send the URL URL in full Uniform Resource Locator Address of a resource on the Internet. The resource can be any type of file stored on a server, such as a Web page, a text file, a graphics file, or an application program. of a document to a Web-enabled HP printer. The printer would then retrieve the file from the Web and print it. Nokia 9110 and 9110i Communicators currently have the capability to beam a URL using today's vCard and IR technology. HP printers supporting these evolving standards will be available beginning next year. The two companies said they are encouraging the industry to support and contribute to their project. The agreement leverages technology developed in HP Labs' "CoolTown" research project. In "CoolTown," people, places and things People, Places and Things is an unpublished collection of short stories by US author Stephen King, written in 1960 together with his friend Chris Chesley and published using their own press. can all have representations on the Web, enabling information about them to be accessed using standard browser technology built into cell phones, printers and other appliances. The "CoolTown" architecture includes HP-invented software and technologies that help enable mobile e-services. Nokia brings its world-class experience and expertise in the field of mobility, user interfaces and consumer appliances to the agreement. It will continue to develop mobile phones, communicators and other Internet appliances that are compatible with open standards Specifications for hardware and software that are developed by a standards organization or a consortium involved in supporting a standard. Available to the public for developing compliant products, open standards imply "open systems;" that an existing component in a system can be replaced . The two companies will collaborate with open industry standards bodies such as the WAP Forum, Bluetooth and the World Wide Web Consortium to ensure a broad range of connectivity options. They will also leverage their collaboration with the Oxygen Project at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Lab for Computer Science. |
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