OmniSky Introduces Business Solutions Channel for Wireless Access to Business-Critical Applications: eFax, My Docs Online, saleforce.com, TelePost.com, UpShot.com, vVault and WestLaw Wireless.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 23, 2001 OmniSky Corporation (Nasdaq:OMNY), the award-winning provider of wireless e-mail and Internet services for users of mobile devices, today announced the launch of its Business Solutions content channel. This new suite of business services, which includes a range of applications from salesforce automation tools to a Web-based teleconferencing service, provides wireless access to resources specifically designed to increase the productivity of mobile professionals. "Business people who travel frequently need access to technology tools that are specifically designed to enhance their mobile productivity," said Kristine Stebbins, OmniSky's vice president of marketing. "OmniSky brings together the leading wireless business applications in an easy-to-use service for handheld owners. With the OmniSky service, mobile professionals can accomplish tasks such as forwarding a sales proposal to a client's fax machine and accessing their company calendar to check the date of the next team meeting." "Wireless access to business applications that enhance customer relationships is essential for today's mobile professional," said Cary Fullbright, vice president of product strategy at salesforce.com. "Now OmniSky users can reap the benefits that the salesforce.com CRM (Customer Relationship Management) An integrated information system that is used to plan, schedule and control the presales and postsales activities in an organization. solution offers, enabling them to access critical customer information from their handheld device when they are on the go." According to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. a Yankee Group (the Yankee Group, Boston, MA, www.yankeegroup.com) A major market research, analysis and consulting firm founded in 1970 by Howard Anderson. It provides general consulting and strategic planning in the computer and communications field. survey of large North American North American named after North America. North American blastomycosis see North American blastomycosis. North American cattle tick see boophilusannulatus. companies, 50 percent of those surveyed have deployed or intend to deploy a wireless connectivity solution for their mobile workforce by 2003. Forty-four percent of that mobile workforce is expected to consist of field sales personnel and mobile executives. "In today's competitive business environment, wireless access to critical sales information can mean the difference between success and failure," said Keith Raffel, chairman and founder of UpShot Corporation. "With the OmniSky service, customers can reap the benefits of UpShot's SFA See sales force automation. SFA - Sales Force Automation system and follow up on every opportunity." The OmniSky Business Solutions channel is available immediately and includes seven leading business application service providers. Selected services require the user to set-up a password-protected account in advance and are subject to fees billed directly by the application provider. eFax -- one of the fastest and easiest ways to receive faxes wirelessly. With the eFax application, OmniSky users receive faxes as attachments to e-mail messages and can forward these faxes wirelessly from their OmniSky-enabled handheld device to any fax machine. My Docs Online -- combines wireless messaging and virtual drive capabilities to provide a wireless way to handle desktop files and e-mail attachments A file that rides along with an e-mail message. The attached file can be of any type. E-mail programs make it easy to attach a file. For example, in Eudora, all you do is select Attach from the Message menu, browse through the folder hierarchy to find the file you want and then double . My Docs Online offers OmniSky users an intuitive interface and an extensive feature set for accessing, e-mailing, and printing/faxing their business files and attachments from an OmniSky-enabled wireless handheld device. salesforce.com -- powerful, scalable online Customer Relationship Management (CRM) solution designed to help companies increase productivity, maximize efficiency, remain competitive and enhance relationships with their customers. With the salesforce.com application, OmniSky users can access critical customer information including opportunities, contacts, lead generation systems, reports, and calendaring. TelePost -- the first enterprise teleconferencing solution to integrate the core interactive business tools used by mobile professionals -- Internet-enabled handheld devices and wireless and wire-line phones. With the TelePost Conference Center, OmniSky users can initiate and manage multi-participant calls without the need for an operator, reservations or other advance planning. Simply tap on the names of call participants and they are immediately bridged into a conference call. UpShot.com -- using the UpShot.com application, OmniSky users have real-time access to business-critical resources including opportunity management, group calendaring, contact information as well as real-time alerts and breaking news on accounts. vVault -- offers mobile professionals a full-featured suite of productivity solutions enabling users to access, manage, and collaborate on business critical files over mobile devices. With the vVault application, OmniSky users can store individual and group files online, and access, email, or print them to any fax machine using handheld devices. In the next version of the OmniSky service, vVault and OmniSky also intend to enable mobile business users to preview corporate e-mail (Microsoft Outlook For the e-mail and news client bundled with certain versions of Microsoft Windows, see . Microsoft Outlook or Outlook (full name Microsoft Office Outlook and Lotus Notes Messaging and groupware software from IBM Lotus that was introduced in 1989 for OS/2 and later expanded to Windows, Mac, Unix, NetWare, AS/400 and S/390. Notes provides e-mail, document sharing, workflow, group discussions and calendaring and scheduling. ) attachments. Westlaw Wireless(TM) -- provides real-time, mobile access to virtually all legal, business and news information available on Westlaw(R). With the Westlaw application, OmniSky users can find a document by citation Citation (foaled 1945) U.S. Thoroughbred racehorse. In four seasons he won 32 of 45 races, finished second in ten, and third in two. He won the 1948 Triple Crown, and became the first horse to win $1 million. He set a world record in 1950 by running a mile in 1:33 3/5. ; use KeyCite(R) to determine the status of a case or statute; run a search in a Westlaw database, and use West Legal Directory(R) to find a lawyer, a law firm, a courthouse or a legal vendor. The West Legal Directory service is free; additional features require a Westlaw password. OmniSky customers using Palm and Handspring hand·spring n. A gymnastic feat in which the body is flipped completely forward or backward from an upright position, landing first on the hands and then on the feet. devices can receive the newest content channels by using the HotSync function while their PC is connected to the Internet or by downloading content updates from the OmniSky website. In the near future, PocketPC users will receive the latest content via a simple download from the OmniSky website. About OmniSky OmniSky Corporation (Nasdaq:OMNY) is mobilizing mobilizing, v 1. freeing or making loose and able to move. 2. observing any ongoing movements in a client's body, whether small or large, assisted or not, that identify strengths and weaknesses, as well as the client's physical and the Internet for users of mobile devices. The OmniSky wireless e-mail and Internet service allows subscribers to send and receive e-mail messages, access and navigate the Internet, and securely conduct e-commerce transactions, and offers unlimited usage at a fixed monthly fee. OmniSky partners with the leading wireless hardware, services and infrastructure providers, including Verizon Wireless Cellco Partnership, doing business as Verizon Wireless, owns and operates the second largest wireless telecommunications network in the United States, based on total wireless customers. , AT&T Wireless, and Aether aether: see ether, in physics and astronomy. Aether god of whole atmosphere. [Gk. Myth.: Jobes, 42] See : Air Systems, as well as the most popular online content and commerce providers, including AOL (A division of Time Warner, Inc., New York, NY, www.aol.com) The world's largest online information service with access to the Internet, e-mail, chat rooms and a variety of databases and services. , eBay, E*TRADE, and Yahoo! Subscribers can access a vast array of optimized Internet content through an intuitive wireless portal A Web site that supports a user with a smartphone or alphanumeric pager. It may offer a variety of features, including providing a springboard to other (WAP based) wireless sites, the ability to select content to be pushed to the user's device as well as providing a point of entry for that organizes information into categories such as finance, shopping, news, sports, and more. In addition, subscribers can search the Web through the OmniSky wireless portal. The OmniSky service is currently available for the Palm V and Palm Vx, 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. Platinum and Visor Prism, HP Jornada 540 Series Pocket PC and the Compaq iPAQ Pocket PC. OmniSky currently offers its service within 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. in over 161 major metropolitan areas, encompassing over 167 million people. Through a joint venture with News Corporation, OmniSky now offers its wireless service through U.K. and German beta programs and has plans to expand into additional international markets this year. OmniSky is headquartered in San Francisco San Francisco (săn frănsĭs`kō), city (1990 pop. 723,959), coextensive with San Francisco co., W Calif., on the tip of a peninsula between the Pacific Ocean and San Francisco Bay, which are connected by the strait known as the Golden , Calif. For more information visit www.omnisky.com or call 415/764-2200. The foregoing information contains forward-looking statements forward-looking statement A projected financial statement based on management expectations. A forward-looking statement involves risks with regard to the accuracy of assumptions underlying the projections. that are based on OmniSky's current expectations. These expectations are subject to risks, uncertainties and other factors that could cause OmniSky's actual results to differ materially from those referred to in these forward-looking statements. Factors that could cause OmniSky's actual results to differ include, but are not limited to, risks related to: market acceptance of an early stage service such as OmniSky's; delays in the development or introduction of new versions of OmniSky's service; technical difficulties with networks or operating systems Operating systems can be categorized by technology, ownership, licensing, working state, usage, and by many other characteristics. In practice, many of these groupings may overlap. on which OmniSky relies to deliver its service; changes in technologies that affect the wireless, Internet or handheld mobile device industries; the ability of an early stage company such as OmniSky to manage its growth; the protection of OmniSky's proprietary information; release of competitive products and services; and general economic downturns. These and other risks are more fully described in OmniSky's periodic reports and registration statements filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission and can be obtained online at the Commission's web site at http://www.sec.gov. Readers should consider the information contained in this release together with other publicly available information about OmniSky for a more informed overview of the company. OmniSky is a trademark of OmniSky Corporation. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners. |
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