Media contact: Norbert Sagnard, Marketing Manager
Telephone: +353-1-819-3400
mailto:SagnardN@logica.com
http://www.logica.com/telecoms
Lucent Technologies, Inc.
Lucent Technologies and TeleCommunication Systems, Inc (TCS) offers the Short Message Service Center (SMSC). The SMSC provides basic services such as voice mail and fax mail notification, numeric and alphanumeric paging. It also offers advanced information services via e-mail and Internet access. It supports mobile originated messaging capabilities. Lucent/TCS SMSC supports the delivery of WAP messages based on the WAP V1.1 specification. This includes the capabilities for Teleservice Segmentation and Reassembly (TSAR) and General UDP Transport Service (GUTS). It interfaces with the WAP servers using SMPP v3.4. These capabilities will generally be available in the 1st quarter of 2000.
Media contact: Rich Teplitsky
Tel: +1 908 582 5700
Pager: +1 888 432 0722
Email: rteplitsky@lucent.com
Web: www.lucent.com
MapQuest.com, Inc.
MapQuest.com provides information and content that turns a WAP-enabled phone into a travelling concierge. The new MapQuest.com service allows mobile phone users to access a variety of travel and destination information on handsets with a WML V1.1 microbrowser. MapQuest.com users can retrieve driving directions as well as information on local hotels, restaurants and other points of interest while they are on the move. In the near future, MapQuest.com will add more content and features to this service including real-time traffic alerts and incident reporting information.
Media contact: Robert Dressler
Director of Wireless Marketing
Tel: +1 212 904 0408
Email: rdressler@mapquest.com
Web: www.mapquest.com
MATERNA Information & Communications
MATERNA provides the One-Stop-Shopping-Solution to carry out WAP services fast and professional. Based on a modularised concept, MATERNA offers the complete WAP service portfolio for network carriers and corporate customers: the reliable and scalable MATERNA WAP Gateway, content-conversion, billing facilities, mobile unified messaging, Over-The-Air (OTA) configuration, and a large variety of WAP applications. MATERNA developed the first fully integrated WAP portal, that offers unique "drag & drop" personalisation, a WAP catalogue, a WAP search engine, individual link management, full e-mail access and a variety of portal administration features on a single plattform. The solutions are fully WAP 1.1 compliant and MATERNA was one of the first WAP gateway suppliers that announced to fully support WAP 1.2.
Media contact: Christine Siepe
Tel: +49 231 5599 168
Email: christine.siepe@materna.de
Web: www.materna.com
MAZ Hamburg GmbH
MAZ (Mikroelektronik Anwendungszentrum) focuses now on the development of WAP V1.1-based services and applications. As a system and development house, the company is creating location-based and hybride Value Added Services (VAS). All services are customizable, scalable and can be personalized by the user. In these services, new media content will be integrated. The secure interaction between the server and the mobile application is one key issue for the product development. Both the mass and the business markets are targeted with the company WAP V1.1 portfolio.
Media contact: Jan Hauberg
Director Business Unit GSM Products
Tel: +49 40 766291171
Email: hauberg@maz-hh.de
Web: www.maz-hh.de
Melody Interactive Solutions
Melody is currently developing a series of WAP products, marketed under the brand name MyWap. The MyWap Studio client enables you to develop, manage and edit WAP sites and includes a WYSIWYG editor, a WMLScript debugger and an FTP client. The MyWap Mail server application enables the user to receive and send email through any WAP device, even when away from the office. The MyWap News server application transforms any WAP device into a news or messaging tool. The MyWap Teletex Converter server application allows any teletex broadcasting TV station to publish content also for WAP. Platform independent, it works on any existing teletex system.
Release dates:
MyWap Studio w/command based interface, Beta version: October 1999
MyWap Studio w/command based interface: November 1999
MyWap Studio w/graphical interface: January 2000
MyWap Mail: October 1999
MyWap News: Status unavailable
MyWap Teletext Converter: Now Shipping
Media contact: Per Mosseby
CEO Melody Interactive Solutions
Tel: +46 8 612 39 80
Email: per@melody.se
Web: www.mywap.com
Motorola, Inc.
In July 1999, Motorola unveiled its first WAP-capable, Tri-band GSM phone. Scheduled to be available in 4Q99, the phone supports the WAP V1.1 specification, and enables the Tri-band GSM phone to access email and select Internet-based information services. Motorola is also planning to provide WAP V1.1 support in its i1000plus and Timeport P7389 handset models. Motorola intends to bring WAP technology to the market and progressively roll it out across its entire handset product range in all technologies, including CDMA, GSM and TDMA. Motorola’s Telematics Communications Group is also working diligently to develop WAP-compliant Telematics Communications Units, which are designed and manufactured for the world’s leading automotive manufacturers.
Motorola and Starfish Software, leaders in the mobile computing market, will shepherd in a new era of smart phones in the second half of 2000. Combining Motorola’s best-selling GSM V-Series cellular phone and Starfish’s patented TrueSync® technology, the new product advances the vision of anytime, anywhere access by offering users tools to immediately view and enter personal information, synchronize data across varied platforms, and utilize web-portal content and services on the go. Mobile users of the new GSM V-Series phones will synchronize information effortlessly and transfer information automatically, regardless of location, distance or time, making them the ultimate communications tool for the frequent traveler.
Media contacts: Motorola WAP Phones
Jennifer Weyrauch
Tel: +1 847 523 0015
Email: jennifer.weyrauch@motorola.com
Motorola Telematics
Allyson Stinchfield
Tel: +1 312 372 6144
Email: afield@citigatedr-chi.com
Motorola EMEA
Natalie Link
Tel: +44 7803 958 333
Email: natalie.link@motorola.com
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