Tel. +49 89 722 36798
Email: guenter.gaugler@uk.siemens.de
Software AG
Software AG, a world-wide leader in e-business solutions and a technology innovator and leader, first demonstrated connecting WAP enabled devices to existing enterprise business applications as early as August 1999. Software AG currently supports the WAP v1.1 specification and plans to add any necessary extra support for the WAP v1.2 enhancements in time for any commercial use.
Software AG's productlines EntireX (middleware), Tamino (XML-Database) and Bolero (Java/XML development environment) currently provide comprehensive solutions, available today, that enable businesses to fully exploit WAP technology in their e-business strategy. They not only provide WAP access to web content but also generic XML based content management, comprehensive development studio for WAP application and WAP screen development and by spanning the crucial gap from WAP Server to distributed business logic are able to provide rapid and easy access to existing/new commercial Enterprise applications and data without having to rewrite the applications or content.
During the course of the year 2000, Software AG plans to release XENON, the first complete architecture for commercial XML application. Based entirely on Open Standards it will of course encompass the current WAP standards and future enhancements.
Media contact: Rainer Glaap
Director Product Marketing
tel: +49-6151-92-1168
email: rainer.glaap@softwareag.com
wap@softwareag.com
Web: http://www.softwareag.com
Sonera Ltd.
Sonera launched commercial WAP V1.1 services in August 1999. Sonera's WAP service package allows customers to use WAP-compliant handsets to make account balance queries, read news, download Doris ringing tones, and make directory inquiries. In the future, Sonera will widen the scope of WAP services and will include mobile banking and e-commerce services. Sonera SmartTrust unit enables service providers to offer secure mobile services in the WAP environment. Sonera SmartTrust products and services are based on Public Key Infrastructure resulting in the highest level of confidentiality, user authentication, data integrity and non-repudiation through digital signatures; and they follow the worldwide Digital Signature legislative initiatives.
Media Sonera Mobile Communication Sonera SmartTrust
contacts: Timo Ahomäki Sari Laitinen
Tel: +358 2040 3152 Tel: +358 2040 63148
Email: timo.ahomaki@sonera.fi Email: sari.laitinen@sonera.fi
Web: http://sonera.fi Web: http://sonera.fi/smarttrust
space2go GmbH & Co. KG, Berlin, Germany
space2go is an ASP for mobile devices. space2go offers a unique synchronization and access service for personal content to make desktop PIM data from MS Outlook or LOTUS Notes available on WAP enabled and other devices. The user can upload his Contacts, Calendar and Tasks from his PIM application on the space2go website to central servers. There the data is converted into XML and WML and accessible with any WAP device. A basic version is available for free. The premium version with email, file handling and true synchronization will be released in March 2000. After a simple registration process all information can be send to the secure space2go servers.
Media contact: Mr. Jens Meyer Tel: +49 (30) 590067-0
Fax: +49 (30) 590067-11
Jmeyer@space2go.com
Spyglass, Inc.
Available now, Spyglass Prism running on Windows NT/Sun Solaris, is a server-based content conversion solution that dynamically transforms richly formatted Web content into formats, matching the limited display capabilities of non-PC devices. To support WAP devices, Prism converts standard HTML to WML. Through a strategic partnership with Nokia, Spyglass delivers a WAP V1.1 browser, a customizable, embedded WAP client for wireless devices. The platform-independent browser incorporates a rich API set to facilitate integration with the device’s platform and creation of WAP-based applications and services. Available in beta, Spyglass customizes and implements the browser for deployment by handset and PDA manufacturers.
Media contact: Amanda Ingalls
Spyglass Public Relations Manager
Tel: +1 630 245 6512
Email: aingalls@spyglass.com
Strategy.com
Strategy.com™, the Personal Intelligence Network™ from MicroStrategy (NASDAQ: MSTR), recently launched its WAP services. These services extend Strategy.com’s capabilities by allowing subscribers with WAP-enabled phones to access personalized finance, weather and sports information. Consumers can access Strategy.com through their phone’s mini-browser by pressing “go to…” and typing strategy.com. In the near future, Strategy.com users will also be able to trade shares of stock and buy merchandise by simply pressing a button on their cellular phone. Strategy.com works with companies such as EarthLink and Ameritrade to deliver personalized information and alerts to subscribers via email, telephone, mobile phone, pager and fax.
Media contact: Jennifer Fiumara
Marketing Manager
Tel: 1 703 848 8778
Email: fiumara@strategy.com
Swisscom Mobile
Swisscom Mobile, part of Swisscom A.G., Switzerland’s largest Telecommunications operator successfully implemented the WAP 1.1 standard in their network earlier in the year. Swisscom Mobile will be officially launching their own WAP product for the Swiss market early in the first quarter of the year 2000 with a broad portfolio of services ranging from information services to email and banking applications.
Media contact: Lourdes Martins
Product Manager
Swisscom AG
Mobile Com
Tel: +41 (0) 31 34 23815
Fax: +41 (0) 31 342 0518
Email: lourdes.martins@swisscom.com
Web: www.swisscom.com
Tecnomen
Tecnomen is one of the first suppliers to provide WAP V1.1 access to all Unified Messaging services. Subscribers frequently on the move have now a visual access to their unified mailbox by using the WAP phone. One way to expand Tecnomen’s Unified Messaging by WAP is to bring Unified Messaging towards a personal communication portal, which combines messaging, directory, call control and address book services. Now, the visual dimension in managing voice, fax and e-mail messages will dramatically simplify messaging regardless of time and location. Tecnomen is ready: we have demonstrated WAP V1.1 compliant services.
Media contact: Ms Iris Heinonen
Marketing Communications Manager
Tel: +358 9 804781
Email: iris.heinonen@tecnomen.fi
Web: www.tecnomen.com
Telstra Corporation Limited
Telstra is Australia’s leading telecommunications and information services company. The company offers a full range of service sand competes in all telecommunications markets throughout Australia. Telstra commercially launched WAP V1.1 inconjunction with telstra.com, an Internet service in December 1999. The services available to Telstra’s WAP customers include access to telstra.com where email can be checked, news and sport from CNN, national news, weather, horoscopes, lotteries, sports scores or banking facilities. Initially Telstra will be offering WAP access to telstra.com on GSM. Telstra is currently testing WAP on its new CDMA network.
Media contact: Virginia Murphy
Telstra Corporation Limited
Tel: +61 3 9252 1336
Fax: +61 3 9252 1297
Email: virginia.murphy@telstra.com.au
ThinAirApps
ThinAirApps, LLC is a leader in wireless information access software providing the most open platform for extending information to any wireless device, with a focus on building applications that reflect the way people live and work in a mobile society. The company is committed to delivering the highest quality, most affordable products for end users, businesses and service providers. Versions of ThinAir Server for Microsoft Exchange, POP, and IMAP messaging systems are currently commercially available that support secure, real-time access to email and other groupware data from devices incorporating WAP V1.1.
Media contact name
Mark Flaherty
Director of Product Management
001.212.343.5017
mark.flaherty@thinairapps.com
Universal Communication Platform AG
All of ucp.ag's (UNIVERSAL COMMUNICATION PLATFORM AG) mobile solutions are based on our developed platform technology, called ucphone(tm) platform. These tools permit us to take any kind of content and application and make it mobile. ucphone(tm) platform is based on open and general standards and allows us to take any available Internet source and then emit it on the various wireless devices. Additionally, it is possible to personalize the services, thus developing custom-made wireless portals. Fully operational WAP-services include: Event database (10,000 events), newspaper portal, restaurant guide (approx. 3,600 entries); Austrian company register, cinema and movie guide, regional weather forecasts, news, leisure (daily jokes, quotes, horoscopes) domain-registration, and e-commerce wine shop (1,200 wines).
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Media contact: Christian Lutz, CEO
Tel: +43 1 513 8474
Fax: +43 1 513 8474 ext. 44
E-mail: christian.lutz@ucpag.com
Vast Solutions, Inc.
Vast Solutions is a leader in providing wireless solutions that implement transaction oriented applications and Internet information delivery. Our Viaduct(TM) wireless messaging technology supports robust, scalable wireless applications that are independent of the network and device selected for use. We see WAP as a fundamentally important standard that will be the predominant means of wireless interfacing in the near future. WAP 1.1 is one of the standards supported by Viaduct and we are currently deploying customer applications utilizing WAP 1.1 as one of several supported interfaces. Our strategy is to track WAP as it evolves and to provide our customers who implement wireless solutions today with a smooth bridge to a WAP based solution as the market develops.
Media contact: Chris Sanders
SVP Marketing
++972-801-0801
Chris_Sanders@vast.com
Virtual, Inc.
Virtual and a bank in Taiwan will launch a Mobile Banking service during December 1999. The service will provide account balance query, check account status notification, etc. Virtual will provide stock and news notification service during December 1999. Users can set up the notification criteria from web or handset. As the condition is met, such as stock price, index or quantity, or Currency Exchange Rate, the information will be pushed into user's WAP terminal.
Media contact: Hui-Jing Hung
Sr. Marketing Manager
Tel: +886 2 2502 6201 ext. 399
Email: hung@virtual.com.tw
Web: www.virtual.com.tw
Webraska Mobile Technologies
Webraska Mobile Technologies is the world's first provider of value-added real-time traffic information, maps, and navigation services > on WAP mobile phones, turning phones into co-pilots. Webraska's goal is to provide a flexible and complete alternative to CD-rom-based car navigation systems, using its patented Internet-based Distributed Navigation. Webraska's services are WAP 1.1 compatible. Originally developed with leading French operator SFR, they are available in France (SFR) and the Netherlands (KPN). The company is headquartered in Poissy, France and has offices in the UK, Belgium and Spain. For more information visit www.webraska.com
Media contact: Silvia Blanc-Bolelli
Communications Director, Tel: +33 139 22 63 04
email: sblancbolelli@webraska.com
Wireless Data Services
WDS are specialists in application development for all wireless data > services, including WAP and Internet web-page. Services include gateway and web-site management. Global operations cover GSM, CDMA, TDMA, and other mobile data platforms from support centres in USA, UK, Australia and South Africa. Additional primary services include end-user support services, benchmark testing and Training. Clients include Network Operators, manufacturers, Software vendors, ISPs and multi-national corporates.
Primary Activities: Application Development, Cross-browser development, Gateway and Server management, Internet web-site management, End-user help-desk support, Training
Media contact : David Ffoulkes-Jones, Director
Tel: (01202) 713 700
Fax: (01202) 734 474
E-mail: DavidF@wds.org
URL: www.wds.org
Zillion AG Zürich
wRap ® - a WAP, SMS, and Internet-enabled server application for providing the most flexible access to necessary data. Application modules include: a database for real-time and historical data, news, etc., data feed modules for extracting and filtering data from a variety of sources such as the Internet, TV-text, corporate databases, and other accessible information or data feeds from information providers (such as Reuters RSF+, Bridge Telerate, Standard & Poors Comstock etc.), and an access and response module enabling database query and response via Internet, WAP-enabled devices, and SMS messages. wRap ® is implemented employing WAP V1.1. It is operational and available as of 12.31.1999.
Win Watch Web - A subscription service providing Internet and WAP- enabled access to its own real-time and historical database of automatically loaded and filtered data extracted from other Internet sites, TV-text, and other data sources. Data includes financal information, business headlines, breaking news, etc. Each user configures his personalized Win Watch Web profile with portfolios, limits, alerting functions etc. Win Watch Web is implemented employing WAP V1.1. It is
operational and available as of 12.31.1999.
Media Contact: Karl Sittler
Director of Business Development
Zillion AG
Tel: +41 1 267 6825
Fax: +41 1 267 6899
Email: k.sittler@zillion.com
Ztango.com, Inc.
The Ztango.com WAP gateway enables users to experience the future of wireless Internet services today by delivering content-rich services to WAP-enabled handsets over today's digital networks. Ztango.com's WAP gateway is fully compliant with WAP version 1.1 specifications. WAP version 1.2 will be supported later in 2000. Ztango.com's long-standing clientele experience has gone into the platform's features, which include:
* Flexible billing solutions
* Subscriber Management and Remote Provisioning
* Operations & Maintenance
* Innovative Wireless 1 to 1 portal solution with mobile commerce
* Modular WAP gateway/portal solutions
The Ztango.com WAP gateway gives our customers the best of two worlds: cutting edge WAP technology that is built on a carrier-grade advanced SMS
wireless Internet platform.
Media contact: Darian Germain, Communications Director
Office: +1.703.437.4422 x 107
darian.germain@ztango.com
http:/www.ztango.com
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