Vega Vista, Inc. Starts Field Trial of Its New Point & View Module.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 10, 2001 Vega Vega (vā`gə), brightest star in the constellation Lyra; Bayer designation Alpha Lyrae; 1992 position R.A. 18h36.7m, Dec. +38°47'. A white main-sequence star of spectral class A0 V, its apparent magnitude is 0. Vista, Inc. today announced that Sonera, a mobile communications operator headquartered in Finland, is employing Vega Vista's Point & View(TM) module, an innovative new product that allows the user to view and navigate (1) "Surfing the Web." To move from page to page on the Web. (2) To move through the menu structure in a software application. all types of rich content on handheld devices, during the pilot of Sonera's Mstation service. Mstation offers Sonera's pilot users mobile Internet Refers to gaining access to the Internet using a lightweight, handheld device. See Mobile IP, PDA, smartphone and mobile TV. applications and network access via a Bluetooth-enabled mobile phone and handheld computer A computing device that can be easily held in one hand while the other hand is used to operate it. The Palm devices are a popular example. See Palm, smartphone and palmtop. . The addition of the Point & View module to the Mstation equipment solution provides for enhanced data viewing and navigation through Vega Vista's natural motion driven user interface technology. "We chose Vega Vista's Point & View module because it gives our pilot Mstation users an entirely new way to navigate the data rich content and interactive games available on our Mspace 3G pilot service," said Markku Lamminluoto, director of Sonera Mspace. Sina Fateh, 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 Vega Vista, notes, "Vega Vista's goal is to help handheld users to be more productive and to navigate rich content in a natural and intuitive way. With Sonera's pilot test we are able, for the first time, to publicly demonstrate how the Point & View module can expand the display capabilities of any handheld device through our proprietary motion driven user interface technology." Vega Vista will offer Point & View modules to manufacturers of PDAs, smartphones, handhelds and handheld peripherals, for integration into new product designs beginning in the first quarter of 2002. Visit www.vegavista.com for additional information. About Sonera Mspace Sonera Mspace is an open environment for testing and developing next generation mobile services together with pilot users. Sonera's goal is to create a miniature 3G market in Finland to study technical feasibility, usability How easy something is to use. Both software and Web sites can be tested for usability. Considering how difficult applications are to use and Web sites are to navigate, one would wish that more designers took this seriously. See user interface and usability lab. of new applications, customer behavior, market dynamics and pricing models. More information on Sonera Mspace is available at www.mspace.fi. About Vega Vista Vega Vista provides innovative products to significantly enhance the usability of mobile information and communication devices. Vega Vista's technology, Point & View, extends the display of handheld devices into a "virtual window" capable of providing high quality interaction with rich content (e.g., large web pages, game screens, drawings, maps), using the user's hand motion as primary input. Point & View employs patented technology combining motion sensors
Note to Editors: Point & View is a trademark of Vega Vista, Inc. |
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