OmniSky and West Group Offer Westlaw Legal Research Tools on the OmniSky Service.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers PALO ALTO Palo Alto, city, California Palo Alto (păl`ō ăl`tō), city (1990 pop. 55,900), Santa Clara co., W Calif.; inc. 1894. Although primarily residential, Palo Alto has aerospace, electronics, and advanced research industries. , Calif., and EAGAN, Minn.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 12, 2001 Timely access to reliable information is at the heart of practicing law. Yet, legal research is often time-consuming and laborious la·bo·ri·ous adj. 1. Marked by or requiring long, hard work: spent many laborious hours on the project. 2. Hard-working; industrious. . In an effort to make researching and accessing information more convenient for legal professionals, OmniSky Corporation (Nasdaq:OMNY), the award-winning provider of branded wireless e-mail and Internet services for users of mobile devices, has teamed with West Group, the foremost provider of e-information and solutions to the U.S. legal market, to offer Westlaw(R) legal research tools on the OmniSky service. "One of the reasons the legal profession has embraced wireless technology is because it offers attorneys more freedom and flexibility for conducting legal research," said Terry Dick, director of technology marketing at West Group. "We're pleased to offer Westlaw on the OmniSky service because it is recognized as one of the most intuitive and comprehensive wireless services for handheld devices." Westlaw is the first legal-specific application on the OmniSky wireless e-mail and Internet service. The availability of Westlaw on OmniSky offers attorneys the kind of reliable research tools and real-time Internet and e-mail access necessary to make the most of their time whether they are in a courtroom, client conference room, or on the road. OmniSky provides a variety of Westlaw content, optimized for mobile access: -- Westlaw Cases: Users can retrieve cases simply by entering the citation and viewing its headnotes and synopsis. An e-mail link to the full text of a case can be sent to any e-mail address. -- KeyCite(R): A powerful citation service, users simply select the type of information needed: full history, negative history, or case citations. Users can also e-mail a link to the full KeyCite result to any e-mail address. -- West Legal Directory(R): Users have access to over one million attorney profiles in the West Legal Directory where they can retrieve an attorney profile or e-mail the profile to any e-mail address. "Quick and easy access to legal research is important to attorneys, whether they are part of a large corporate enterprise or a small local firm. Putting Westlaw on the OmniSky service offers legal professionals more actionable Giving sufficient legal grounds for a lawsuit; giving rise to a Cause of Action. An act, event, or occurrence is said to be actionable when there are legal grounds for basing a lawsuit on it. information, where and when they need it," said Chris Weasler, OmniSky's senior director of interactive services. "Westlaw is an example of OmniSky's custom content strategy to address and deliver the specific information needs of vertical industries such as legal, medical and finance." OmniSky users receive access to Westlaw as part of their OmniSky subscription. The West Legal Directory is free to OmniSky users. Other Westlaw services are subject to fees charged by Westlaw and require users to input their 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 automatically receive the newest content channels whenever they use the HotSync function while their PCs are connected to the Internet. In the near future, PocketPC users will be able to receive the newest content by downloading it 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, PSINet, Aether aether: see ether, in physics and astronomy. Aether god of whole atmosphere. [Gk. Myth.: Jobes, 42] See : Air Systems, and InfoSpace, 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 in a U.K. beta program and has plans to expand into additional international markets this year. OmniSky is headquartered in Palo Alto, Calif. For more information visit www.omnisky.com or call 650/969-7700. About West Group Headquartered in Eagan, Minn., West Group is the foremost provider of e-information and solutions to the U.S. legal market. West Group is a division of The Thomson Corporation (TSE See Tokyo Stock Exchange. TSE 1. See Tokyo Stock Exchange (TSE). 2. See Toronto Stock Exchange (TSE). :TOC) and was formed when West Publishing and Thomson Legal Publishing The production of texts that report laws or discuss the Practice of Law. Originally limited to printed materials, legal publishing now encompasses electronic media as well, with most legal publications becoming available online or in CD-ROM format. merged in June 1996. For more information, please visit West Group's Web site at www.westgroup.com. Note to Editors: OmniSky is a trademark of OmniSky Corporation. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners. |
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