Oracle and Telia Establish a New Company for Mobile Internet Services.Business Editors STOCKHOLM, Sweden--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 18, 2000 Oracle Corporation and Telia are to form a new company that will offer mobile Internet Refers to gaining access to the Internet using a lightweight, handheld device. See Mobile IP, PDA, smartphone and mobile TV. services in the international marketplace. The company, to be based in Sweden, will focus on further developing the unique competence that Telia and Oracle has built through their previous joint-venture projects within the areas of wireless services and in the development of the product Oracle Portal-to-Go. The company, not yet named, will deliver products and services in the global market that are based on Oracle's Portal-to-Go which is a platform independent web solution that allows Internet content to be offered on virtually any kind of terminal. The demand for applications which use this technology is expected to be considerable in the international marketplace in the future as new 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. telephones, cellular phones and handhelds become the most common devices used to access internet. &uot;Sweden is a prime example of how a country can take a leading position within the field of IT by offering cutting-edge mobile Internet solutions to the international marketplace. Here, you will find a great many dynamic companies and highly competent people which is vital if you are trying to rapidly bring new products and services to market. Most people probably don't realise it, but Telia has a highly successful R& program that offers the company the potential to position itself on the world map as the source of solutions that will make it a service provider of choice. I am naturally very enthusiastic about the co-operation that we are now entering with Telia in our new joint company,&uot; says Pier-Carlo Falotti, European Head of Oracle Corporation. &uot;Following the trends that have evolved in mobile telephony Meaning "sound over distance," it refers to electronically transmitting the human voice. In the beginning, telephony dealt only with analog signals in the circuit-switched networks of the telephone companies. and the Internet, the Internet, the, international computer network linking together thousands of individual networks at military and government agencies, educational institutions, nonprofit organizations, industrial and financial corporations of all sizes, and commercial enterprises next phase is converging con·verge v. con·verged, con·verg·ing, con·verg·es v.intr. 1. a. To tend toward or approach an intersecting point: lines that converge. b. both areas in a mobile Internet environment. It's this development that has formed the basis for the new joint Telia/Oracle company that will draw from the best expertise of both worlds. The fact that we are forming a business together gives us a combination of competencies, flexibility and the ability to rapidly deploy new solutions which is a prerequisite pre·req·ui·site adj. Required or necessary as a prior condition: Competence is prerequisite to promotion. n. for success. We have already proved that our a global co-operation, which has led to the launch of the world's first WAP applications that were unveiled at the Telecom 99' exhibition in Geneva Geneva, canton and city, Switzerland Geneva (jənē`və), Fr. Genève, canton (1990 pop. 373,019), 109 sq mi (282 sq km), SW Switzerland, surrounding the southwest tip of the Lake of Geneva. last autumn, is sound,&uot; says Kenneth Karlberg, Vice President, Telia, head of Business Area Mobile Communications. &uot;We now need to consolidate our operations. Our intention is to deliver our first services during the spring. Initially, the company will have 25 employees.&uot; Oracle Corporation provides the software that powers the Internet. Visit us at http://www.oracle.com Telia Mobile offers wireless and mobile communications services to business and private users through brands including Mobitel, Minicall and DOF See depth of field and 6DOF. DOF - degrees of freedom . In 1999, Telia Mobile, together with Oracle, launched one of the world's first commercial WAP portals, MyDOF. For further information, contact: Telia, Lena Lena (lē`nə, Rus. lyĕ`nə), river, easternmost of the great rivers of Siberia, c.2,670 mi (4,300 km) long, rising near Lake Baykal, SE Siberian Russia. Demborg, Media Relations Manager, lena.m.demborg@telia.se, Phone: +46 70 594 03 45, www.telia.se Oracle Svenska AB, Karin Bergseth, PR manager, kbergset@se.oracle.com, Phone: +46 8 477 33 17, www.oracle.se, www.oracle.com Please visit http://www.bit.se for further information. The following files are available for download To receive a file transmitted over a network. In any communications session, "download" means receive, and "upload" means send. The download/upload often implies a big/little scenario, in which data is being downloaded from the "big" server into the "little" user's computer. : http://www.bit.se/bitonline/2000/02/18/20000218BIT00420/bit0001.doc http://www.bit.se/bitonline/2000/02/18/20000218BIT00420/bit0002.pdf |
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