HP Outlines Commitment to Enable Mobile E-services for Wireless Service Providers, Extended Enterprises.GENEVA--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 11, 1999-- 24 Initial Partners, Customers Support HP's Initiative to Drive Innovation for $80 Billion Mobile Data Market Here at Telecom 99, Hewlett-Packard Company today unveiled the latest in a series of initiatives aimed at enabling the creation of mobile e-services for wireless service providers and extended enterprise environments. The announcement introduces an integrated hardware/software platform solution for delivering wireless Internet services; a Mobile E-services Bazaar designed to fuel the creation of wireless Internet services; and Mobile E-services-on-Tap, advanced wireless capabilities delivered to HP's service provider customers on a pay-per-use basis from infrastructure equipment owned and operated by HP. Through this announcement, HP is presenting a complete offering of solutions and services for deployment of mobile e-services. HP also announced that 24 communications companies Communications Company is a communications unit of the United States Marine Corps. They are part of Combat Logistics Regiment 37 , 3rd Marine Logistics Group (3MLG) and III Marine Expeditionary Force (III MEF). The unit is based out of the Marine Corps Base Camp Smedley D. have lined up behind HP's Mobile E-services initiative, including two of the industry's largest mobile-appliance vendors, Motorola and Nokia, who are committed to working with HP to advance wireless connectivity to the Internet. The worldwide mobile data market is projected to be $80 billion by 2010(1), with the global penetration of wireless phones alone expected to grow to 1 billion by 2003(2). "HP's Mobile E-services initiative to enable Internet-connected mobility fits well with HP's vision of a world in which devices of all types will deliver rich services that solve specific problems," said Ann Livermore, president, HP Enterprise Computing Refers to information technology in the larger company. See enterprise data and enterprise networking. . "HP is uniquely positioned to lead this market because we sit at the intersection between consumers and business, completely fluent in the language of both markets, with a unique understanding of how to make the IT infrastructure powerful enough and Net appliances See Internet appliance and network appliance. intelligent enough to create a wireless Internet." Mobile e-services are value-added, Internet-based services, such as customer services, for completing complex tasks and financial transactions and accessing personalized per·son·al·ize tr.v. per·son·al·ized, per·son·al·iz·ing, per·son·al·iz·es 1. To take (a general remark or characterization) in a personal manner. 2. To attribute human or personal qualities to; personify. information -- deployed over mobile telephony networks. Leading mobile service providers cite advanced Internet wireless services as critical capabilities for strengthening customer loyalty, market share and revenue growth. Integrated Mobile E-services Platform HP's Integrated Mobile E-services platform is a hardware, software and services bundle that combines Wireless Application Protocol (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. ) servers with HP technologies such as e-speak and a full range of third-party partner solutions. These solutions, offered for both service providers and enterprises, are intended to be the building blocks of mobile e-services, helping to expand service offerings beyond simple voice communications and enabling the rapid deployment of mobile e-services. HP will integrate optionally HP's encryption The reversible transformation of data from the original (the plaintext) to a difficult-to-interpret format (the ciphertext) as a mechanism for protecting its confidentiality, integrity and sometimes its authenticity. Encryption uses an encryption algorithm and one or more encryption keys. technology and VirtualVault software, a Department of Defense Grade B secure operating system The term "secure operating system" is a misnomer. Relevant articles include:
HP will also provide a full range of consulting and joint marketing services to enable the rapid deployment of these services and increased time-to-revenue. Mobile E-services Bazaar To help fuel the creation of innovative mobile e-services, HP plans to establish the Mobile E-services Bazaar. Combining an online "CyberBazaar" community with a number of regional centers of innovation, the Mobile E-services Bazaar would provide a trading community and developers program for wireless operators, service providers, enterprises application providers and technology partners. The Initial Center of Innovation will be located in Helsinki, Finland, considered the "Mobility Silicon Valley." Additional centers will be opened in the United States United States, officially United States of America, republic (2005 est. pop. 295,734,000), 3,539,227 sq mi (9,166,598 sq km), North America. The United States is the world's third largest country in population and the fourth largest country in area. and Japan/Asia-Pacific. Service providers and enterprises will have the ability to view and test new mobile e-services, join special-interest groups, access relevant information and gain access to a constant supply of innovative new solutions. Application vendors benefit from technical, business, marketing and sales support provided by HP and its partners. Mobile E-services-on-Tap Through its Mobile E-services-on-Tap platform, HP will offer mobile service capabilities delivered to service providers on a subscription or transaction basis. With the Mobile E-services-on-Tap model, HP will host and operate the infrastructure for day-to-day business operations Business operations are those activities involved in the running of a business for the purpose of producing value for the stakeholders. Compare business processes. The outcome of business operations is the harvesting of value from assets , enabling the service provider to focus on its core competencies A core competency is something that a firm can do well and that meets the following three conditions specified by Hamel and Prahalad (1990):
The Mobile E-services model is designed and operated by HP using an open-systems approach that encompasses UNIX UNIX Operating system for digital computers, developed by Ken Thompson of Bell Laboratories in 1969. It was initially designed for a single user (the name was a pun on the earlier operating system Multics). (R) system and Windows NT (Windows New Technology) A 32-bit operating system from Microsoft for Intel x86 CPUs. NT is the core technology in Windows 2000 and Windows XP (see Windows). Available in separate client and server versions, it includes built-in networking and preemptive multitasking. (R) platforms, and is bulletproofed with a variety of enabling software applications and database-management and infrastructure systems from HP and key partners. HP's initial mobile e-services offering through this model is Messaging-on-Tap, a complete messaging solution owned and operated by HP. Industry Support Initial partners supporting HP's Mobile E-Services platform include Aspiro, BEA Systems BEA Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: BEAS) is one of the major companies developing enterprise infrastructure software. BEA makes middleware, products that help software run on top of databases. Inc., Benefon, BFound.com, BonSoft, BroadVision, BROKAT Infosystems, Comptel, De la Rue La Rue may refer to:
1. LPG - Linguaggio Procedure Grafiche (Italian for "Graphical Procedures Language"). dott. Gabriele Selmi. Roughly a cross between Fortran and APL, with graphical-oriented extensions and several peculiarities. Innovations, Motorola, Nokia, pc plus, Rapsodia, SuperWeb, TANTAU, Votek, WapIT and Yomi Media. HP has already made significant progress in the development of the mobile e-services market. Some examples include the following: -0-
-- HP is jointly developing locator service technologies with
Motorola that drive dynamic brokering of information and
services through cell phones based on users' geographic
locations.
-- HP's first mobile e-services solution, a WAP-compliant
OpenMail messaging and collaboration solution, enables users
to send and receive e-mail from WAP-enabled cell phones.
-- With Nokia, HP has an alliance to jointly develop and market
business-critical mobile Internet solutions. Nokia and HP
intend to collaborate on WAP-based solutions for HP-UX(3)
and Windows NT servers, delivering e-services over the
Internet to mobile handheld devices. HP will resell Nokia's
WAP Server worldwide through direct and indirect channels.
HP announced that its VeriFone division has adapted its VeriSmart e-commerce software to support WAP-based wireless appliances. With WAP implementation, VeriSmart delivers secure sessions with wireless appliances for complete mobile e-commerce offerings. About HP Hewlett-Packard Company -- a leading global provider of computing computing - computer and imaging solutions and services for business and home -- is focused on capitalizing on the opportunities of the Internet and the proliferation proliferation /pro·lif·er·a·tion/ (pro-lif?er-a´shun) the reproduction or multiplication of similar forms, especially of cells.prolif´erativeprolif´erous pro·lif·er·a·tion n. of electronic services. HP plans to launch Agilent Technologies This article needs sources or references that appear in reliable, third-party publications. Alone, primary sources and sources affiliated with the subject of this article are not sufficient for an accurate encyclopedia article. as an independent company by mid-calendar 2000. Agilent consists of HP's test and measurement, semiconductor products, chemical analysis and healthcare solutions businesses, and has leading positions in multiple market segments. HP has 123,500 employees worldwide and had total revenue of $47.1 billion in its 1998 fiscal year. Information about HP, its products and the company's Year 2000 program can be found on the World Wide Web at http://www.hp.com. (1) Analysys, "Data over Mobile: Commercial Strategies for Mobile Operators," April 1999. (2) Wired, Sept. 1999. (3) HP-UX HP's version of Unix that runs on its 9000 family. It is based on SVID and incorporates features from BSD Unix along with several HP innovations. (operating system) HP-UX - The version of Unix running on Hewlett-Packard workstations. Release 10.20 and later and HP-UX Release 11.00 and later (in both 32- and 64-bit configurations) on all HP 9000 computers are Open Group UNIX 95 branded products. UNIX is a registered trademark of the Open Group. Windows NT is a U.S. registered trademark of Microsoft Corp. |
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