Intava Gravity Used to Help United States Troops Learn Languages Remotely; Professor Steven Donahue's Language Learning Offering Goes Mobile with Intava Gravity.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers BELLEVUE, Wash.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 8, 2002 Intava Corporation, a leading provider of easy-to-use wireless development applications, today announced Intava Gravity(TM) is being used to provide an AFGHAN language learning program and lookup dictionary for troops of the 101st Airborne, Fort Campbell Fort Campbell is a United States Army installation located between Hopkinsville, Kentucky and Clarksville, Tennessee and is home to the 101st Airborne Division. The fort is named in honor of BG William Bowen Campbell, the last Whig Governor of Tennessee. , Kentucky and Central Command in Tampa, Florida “Tampa” redirects here. For other uses, see Tampa (disambiguation). Tampa is a United States city in Hillsborough County, on the west coast of Florida. It serves as the county seat for Hillsborough County.GR6. for the War in Afghanistan. Intava Gravity allows new or existing web applications to be deployed into various wireless environments with a single development effort, while saving time and money by simulating multiple device types without the complexity of learning multiple programming languages. The text-based language system was developed by Professor Steven Donahue of Miami Dade Community College and is the only Pashto (Pashto is a main language of Afghanistan) course and lookup dictionary in the world for this critical language. By using Intava Gravity, it becomes a mobile language learning platform, accessible with Internet access See how to access the Internet. from anywhere in the world. Most recently, the solution has been deployed for use by the troops in Afghanistan. The system is being offered free to the military for the Afghanistan campaign. "Following the events of September 11th, I began using Intava's technology to mobilize my language learning offering," stated Steven Donahue, a linguist and Professor at Miami Dade Community College. "Together with Intava and the government, we have been able to adapt the technology to assist the troops who are combating terrorism Actions, including antiterrorism (defensive measures taken to reduce vulnerability to terrorist acts) and counterterrorism (offensive measures taken to prevent, deter, and respond to terrorism), taken to oppose terrorism throughout the entire threat spectrum. Also called CBT. overseas." "Delivering information whenever and wherever it's needed is a key advantage of using wireless technology," stated Steve Lewis Steve Lewis may refer to:
Intava Gravity Intava Gravity, the industry's first multi-platform Web authoring application, allows new or existing Web applications to be created for various wireless environments with a single development effort. Web developers are able to simulate multiple device types, while avoiding the complexity of learning multiple markup languages
About Steven Donahue Steven Donahue is a professor of English to speakers of other languages. He has a Masters degree in TESOL TESOL abbr. 1. Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages 2. teaching English to speakers of other languages , a graduate certificate in Linguistics, and is pursuing a doctorate in Adult Education at Florida International University Florida International University, primarily at University Park, Miami; coeducational; chartered 1965, opened 1972. A research university, it has 18 colleges and schools and many specialized centers and institutes, including those in biomedical engineering, database . He has published articles on Education, Language and Technology. Mr. Donahue is active in the immigrant and international community, is the past president of American Friends of Albania, a member of the Latin Chamber of Commerce and the Colombian American A Colombian American is an immigrant from Colombia to the United States. Economic problems and violence have led to an emigration of Colombians to the U.S., particularly South Florida (especially Miami, Doral, Kendall and Hialeah), New Jersey (North Jersey), Queens County in New Service Association. Donahue writes for Language Magazine and the Distance Education Report. About Intava Corporation Founded in July of 2000, Intava is focused on providing development applications to wireless web developers that ease the difficulty of building web applications for mobile devices. Intava's leaders, previously co-founding OmniBrowse, a company acquired by Microsoft (Nasdaq:MSFT MSFT Microsoft (stock symbol) MSFT Movimento Sociale Fiamma Tricolore (Italy) MSFT Multi-Stage Fitness Test MSFT Master of Science in Family Therapy MSFT Macalester Students for Fair Trade ) and re-branded as MSN Mobile (http://mobile.msn (1) (MicroSoft Network) A family of Internet-based services from Microsoft, which includes a search engine, e-mail (Hotmail), instant messaging (Windows Live Messaging) and a general-purpose portal with news, information and shopping (MSN Directory). .com), are dedicated to creating development applications for wireless developers. Intava's flagship product, Intava Gravity, is an open, extensible platform in which users can rapidly and professionally develop rich mobile applications that are both easy to use and scalable. It provides a modular environment where code can be re-used and shared, and allows developers to target multiple device platforms with a single development effort. Initially supporting both 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. and Palm (Nasdaq:PALM) environments, Intava Gravity will also provide support for Microsoft's Pocket PC platform. For additional information on Intava, please visit http://www.intava.com or send email to info@intava.com. Military Contacts: Czizik, R.A. 813/827-5894/5895/5896. Press Office Central Command 101st Airborne Fort Campbell, KY. Fort Campbell Public Affairs officer Maj. Paul Fitzpatrick 270/798-9966, 270/798-1101 or 270/798-2788 All trademarks are recognized. |
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