WallStreetView.com Goes Wireless With Aether Systems.Business/Technology Editors CHICAGO & VIENNA, Va.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 28, 2000 Using Aether's ScoutWeb, WallStreetView.com Dynamically Transforms Web Content For Viewing on Wireless and Mobile Devices WallStreetView.com, the most extensive free source of financial information on the Internet, and Aether Systems, Inc., (Nasdaq: AETH), a leading provider of wireless and mobile data products and services for real-time communications, today announced an agreement to deliver wireless worldwide access to the WallStreetView.com web site and all of its applications. Under the agreement, WallStreetView.com will deploy Aether's ScoutWeb to create a free service that delivers, to any hand-held device, real-time news, stock quotes, analysis and commentary, on the WallStreetView.com web site. Aether's ScoutWeb, together with TIBCO TIBCO The Information Bus Company Software's (Nasdaq: TIBX TIBX Tibco Software Incorporated (NASDAQ symbol) ) TIBCO ActivePortal(TM) and TIBCO ActiveEnterprise(R) product suites, creates a comprehensive wireless web and content aggregation solution. It represents one of the first examples of Aether and TIBCO's strategic alliance to provide customers with a one-stop resource to wirelessly enable the TIBCO ActiveEnterprise suite of real-time Internet infrastructure software. WallStreetView.com selected Aether's ScoutWeb server technology to transform their web content, currently developed for viewing on desk-top PCs, into content that is readable and actionable on a hand-held device. "Our goal is not only to make WallStreetView.com the most comprehensive financial portal Financial Portal A website that provides a variety of financial data and information, acting as an information hub for clients who are individual investors requiring timely financial news and data to make their investment decisions. on the Web, but also to make it available to as many users as possible," said Shawn Carpenter Shawn Carpenter is an American Navy veteran and whistleblower (previously employed by Sandia National Laboratories) who tracked down a Chinese cyberespionage ring that is code-named Titan Rain by the FBI. , 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 WallStreetView.com. "By integrating the ScoutWeb technology, we are able to offer access anywhere in the world to anyone with a wireless device." WallStreetView.com expects a beta launch of this new feature within the next 90 days, allowing users of any wireless device with web-server capability to access real-time stock quotes, market news, analysis, and commentary available on the web site. Future wireless enhancements will include the ability to receive personalized alerts and financial information, and ultimately, to execute trades with online brokerages through WallStreetView.com. Unlike other market offerings, Aether's ScoutWeb follows a create once, deliver everywhere philosophy. ScoutWeb software dynamically transcodes HTML HTML in full HyperText Markup Language Markup language derived from SGML that is used to prepare hypertext documents. Relatively easy for nonprogrammers to master, HTML is the language used for documents on the World Wide Web. content for display on HTML-based or WML-based handheld devices using any handheld device browser including the Palm Web Clipping (1) Extracting a smaller amount of text and graphic elements from a Web page in order to display effectively on a handheld Web appliance. Web clipping often uses a predefined form, or template, into which the extracted data are placed. Browser, Pocket Internet Explorer A version of Microsoft Internet Explorer for the Pocket PC operating system. , and 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. enabled smart phones. This create-once, deliver-everywhere approach eliminates the need to build and maintain separate web pages for different devices and browsers, or the need to install proprietary browser software on the hand-held device. Additionally, ScoutWeb lowers production and editorial costs, and eliminates the need to install and upgrade software on the hand-held device. "WallStreetView.com showcases the potential for deploying enterprise-based web content and services to handheld mobile devices," said Larry Roshfeld, Senior Vice President, Products, Aether Systems. "We're delighted to be working with WallStreetView.com as they launch their impressive service to the financial community." ScoutWeb is part of Aether's ScoutWare(TM) family of enterprise products, a comprehensive suite of development tools, management tools, and synchronization technologies that enable the deployment of data to multiple handheld devices. ScoutWeb is designed to be device and operating system operating system (OS) Software that controls the operation of a computer, directs the input and output of data, keeps track of files, and controls the processing of computer programs. independent, so enterprise applications can be accessed through a wide variety of devices, including Palm Pilots, Windows CE (Windows Consumer Electronics) Microsoft's version of Windows for handheld devices and embedded systems that use x86, ARM, MIPS and SHx CPUs. Windows CE .NET superseded Windows CE 3.0. devices, web phones, and pagers. With ScoutWeb, organizations can connect mobile users to web-based legacy, Intranet and Internet applications by dynamically converting content-rich web pages to match the capabilities and screen sizes of all handheld devices. Other features of ScoutWeb include: -- Support for HTML, WML (Wireless Markup Language) A tag-based language used in the Wireless Application Protocol (WAP). WML is an XML document type allowing standard XML and HTML tools to be used to develop WML applications. It evolved from Openwave's HDML, but WML is not a superset of HDML. , XML XML in full Extensible Markup Language. Markup language developed to be a simplified and more structural version of SGML. It incorporates features of HTML (e.g., hypertext linking), but is designed to overcome some of HTML's limitations. , and XHTML (EXtensible HTML) A markup language for Web pages from the W3C. XHTML combines HTML and XML into a single format (HTML 4.0 and XML 1.0). Like XML, XHTML can be extended with proprietary tags. Also like XML, XHTML must be coded more rigorously than HTML. ; -- Support for all mobile devices and mobile operating systems including PalmOS, Windows CE and the new generation of smart phones; -- Mark-up language conversion for content tuning to suit device capability; -- An interpolation interpolation In mathematics, estimation of a value between two known data points. A simple example is calculating the mean (see mean, median, and mode) of two population counts made 10 years apart to estimate the population in the fifth year. feature which allows for varying degrees of image conversion. About WallStreetView.com Headquartered in Chicago, WallStreetView.com is an easy-to-use gateway to the most comprehensive financial information on the Internet. The company provides a vast array of free financial information such as real-time stock quotes and commentary, company research, mutual fund performance comparisons, information on bonds, futures and IPOs, interactive charting and a personalized streaming stock ticker Stock ticker A letter designation assigned to securities and mutual funds that trade on US financial exchanges. . WallStreetView.com was rated one of the "Top Financial Sites" by Online Investor Magazine and "New and Notable" by Yahoo Internet Life. About Aether Systems, Inc. Aether Systems, Inc. is a leading provider of wireless and mobile data products and services allowing real-time communications and transactions across a full range of devices and networks. Using its engineering expertise, the ScoutWare(TM) family of products including the Aether Intelligent Messaging (AIM) software platform, and its network operations and customer care center, Aether seeks to provide comprehensive, technology-independent wireless and mobile computing solutions. Aether develops and delivers wireless data services across a variety of industries and market segments in the United States and internationally. For more information, please visit www.aethersystems.com. This press release includes forward-looking statements based on our current expectations and projections about future events. These forward-looking statements are subject to a number of risks, uncertainties and assumptions about Aether that could cause actual results to differ materially from those in such forward-looking statements. Potential risks and uncertainties include, but are not limited to, the extent to which Aether pursues the initiatives described above, the continued development and customer acceptance of the technology to be developed and the ability to offer it on a cost-effective basis. These risks and other risk factors are described under the caption, "Risk Factors" in Aether's most recently filed prospectus with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Aether undertakes no obligation to update the forward-looking statements contained in this press release. |
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