The Weather Channel and Air2Web Bring Real-Time Doppler Radar to Wireless Customers.Business Editors ATLANTA--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 18, 2002 The Weather Channel has selected Air2Web, the top wireless platform provider, to build and support its new Doppler Radar A system for measuring speed that is based on the Doppler effect. It is used in police radar systems as well as for measuring the velocity of hurricanes and tornadoes. See Doppler effect. application for Java-enabled wireless phones. The imagery and data provided is an even more robust version of the radar content that can be found on weather.com, the leading source of weather on the Web and the Web site of The Weather Channel. The new interactive application is now available to Sprint wireless customers with Vision-enabled PCS (1) (Personal Communications Services) Refers to wireless services that emerged after the U.S. government auctioned commercial licenses in 1994 and 1995. This radio spectrum in the 1. Phones. The Weather Channel plans to provide the service through other major U.S. carriers over the next several months. Users can enter a city name or zip code zip code System of postal-zone codes (zip stands for “zone improvement plan”) introduced in the U.S. in 1963 to improve mail delivery and exploit electronic reading and sorting capabilities. for over 80,000 locations worldwide into their Java-enabled phone and then receive real-time radar images for the specific location and surrounding areas. Another interactive feature allows consumers to pan up and down and left and right. Users also have the ability to zoom in for a 75 mile view of their target location to find out current weather conditions or zoom out to 1,200 miles, to anticipate conditions approaching within the next few minutes or hours. Additionally, consumers can view hour-by-hour forecasts, complete with graphical imagery, as well as extended forecasts. Users can also obtain severe weather reports on their Java phones, and users can choose to view temperatures in either Metric or English unit English unit is the American name for a unit in one of a number of systems of units of measurement, some obsolete, and some still in use. In spite of the name, it does not necessarily refer to the (non-SI) system of units still in widespread, but mostly unofficial, use in England systems. "The Weather Channel's new Doppler Radar application is one of the most interesting uses of wireless technology out on the market today," said Sanjoy Malik, president and CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. of Air2Web. "They have truly raised the bar when it comes to utilizing technology in order to better serve customers." "The Weather Channel understands how important it is to partner with best of breed companies, like Air2Web, to ensure that our customers receive technologically savvy products and services from a well-known brand like ours," said Joe Fiveash, senior vice president of product and business development for weather.com. "As we continue to expand our product offerings, we will turn to Air2Web for both product development and execution." The launch of this new service adds to the robust content that The Weather Channel has provided to consumers via the top five wireless carriers and other well-known mobile service providers since 1998. About The Weather Channel The Weather Channel, Inc., based in Atlanta, is the nation's premier provider of weather information. The Weather Channel is seen in more than 84 million homes nationwide. The Weather Channel is owned by Landmark Communications Landmark Communications is a privately held media company headquartered in Norfolk, Virginia and specializing in cable television, broadcast television, print publishing, and internet publishing. , Inc., a Norfolk, Va.-based privately held media company with global interests. About weather.com weather.com, the Web site of The Weather Channel(R) (TWC TWC The Weather Channel TWC Time-Warner Cable TWC Texas Workforce Commission (also seen as TWFC) TWC The Wellness Community TWC The Washington Center TWC Teachers & Writers Collaborative TWC Trustworthy Computing ), is the world's leading source of weather on the Web. As part of the global offering of TWC, weather.com delivers comprehensive weather information for 80,000 locations worldwide and provides relevant content to help users plan for everyday life. Averaging 350 million page views and 14 million unique users per month, weather.com reaches an extended network of users through multiple geographies, platforms and strategic partnerships. Consistently, weather.com ranks among the top 20 of all Web sites, the top five news and information sites and the number 3 cable television-related Web sites (Nielsen//NetRatings). weather.com is also the leading provider of broadband and wireless weather products via high-speed Internet See broadband. services, phones, pagers, Palm Pilots, and other personal digital assistants. Partnerships include America Online See AOL. , Yahoo!, USAToday.com, AT&T WorldNet, ABCNews.com, Digital City, Road Runner road runner: see cuckoo. Road Runner thrives on outwitting Wile E. Coyote. [Comics: “Beep Beep the Road Runner” in Horn, 105] See : Cunning Road Runner , 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. , Cingular, AT&T Wireless, Sprint PCS, Nextel, AvantGo and Palm Computing. The Weather Channel continues to expand its international reach online with the launch of language-specific sites for the United Kingdom (weather.co.uk), Germany (wetter123.com), France (meteo123.com), Latin America (weather.com/espanol) and Brazil (canaldotempo.com). About Air2Web Air2Web is a privately held company privately held company A firm whose shares are held within a relatively small circle of owners and are not traded publicly. based in Atlanta and has over 70 deployments in production with blue-chip clients providing wireless enabled financial applications, critical field force applications, customer relationship management, M-commerce, e-mail and subscription-based content services. These deployments account for over 240,000 mobile subscribers generating over 8.4 million application accesses per month. In addition, our wireless applications span 30 countries and 27 languages, underscoring Air2Web's leadership in functionality, scalability and global capabilities. Customers include companies such as Delta Employees Credit Union, BellSouth, Digital Insight, Hoover's, ADC Telecommunications, Lexmark International, Magnet Bank, eBay, Best Western International, UPS, Holiday Inn, Intercontinental and Crowne Plaza hotels, the Weather Channel, CBS (Cell Broadcast Service) See cell broadcast. SportsLine, and other leading finance, travel & hospitality, media & entertainment, health care, retail, and transportation companies. |
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