Currently, 2 way paging is an application looking for a future, or is it? This next article describe how the 2 way paging system can be a dynamic low cost solution for 2 way e-mail, PIM features and specialized messaging. If you try to do this with a phone, you have some issues about coverage and higher cost.
Could applications like this be a life extender for paging? Is this really an interesting solution? I have a Handspring, and it seems to me that the expansion slot was a stroke of genius, and now to see how this pocket sized solution could turn the device into a full function e-mail product is very appealing.
It won't be long before all the palm top computers have color screens and huge non-volatile memory.
I think this could be big if a Handspring could become a full function 2 way e-mail device. Certainly it should be popular with Handspring users. For Notify, it could be a huge deal. Glenayre says this product will be available Summer 2000, so it should be available shortly.
Regards, Mark
Notify Technology Signs Strategic Relationship Agreement With Glenayre
August 1, 2000 08:31 AM Eastern Time
SAN JOSE, Calif., Aug. 1 /PRNewswire/ -- Notify Technology Corporation NTFY an innovative Communications Application Service Provider of wireless and wireline messaging services today announced that the Company is one of several new solution and application developers who has signed a strategic relationship agreement with Glenayre Technologies, Inc. GEMS . Notify and the other companies will develop and port applications to work wirelessly using Glenayre's @ctiveLink(TM) two-way wireless messaging module.
Notify Technology will port NotifyLink, which provides wireless connectivity to e-mail notification and management services to the @ctiveLink. Working with the @ctiveLink and the Handspring Visor(TM) hand held computer, NotifyLink will allow Visor users to wirelessly access and manage their personal and business e-mail accounts when they are out of the office or away from their desks -- right from the palm of their hand.
The @ctiveLink snaps seamlessly into the Springboard(TM) slot on the back of the Visor, wirelessly enabling the powerful personal information management capabilities of the Visor. The @ctiveLink has Always @ctive(TM) -- not session based -- connectivity to a ReFLEX network, whether or not it is inserted in the Visor so it is always receiving messages and there is never a need to log on to the network. ReFLEX networks provide @ctiveLink and Visor users with the broadest nationwide coverage and superior building penetration.
Paul DePond, Notify's President & CEO stated, "We are very excited about this strategic relationship agreement. Notify looks forward to working with Glenayre and implementing NotifyLink into their @ctiveLink wireless messaging module."
"Mobile workers and people with active lifestyles are looking for communication tools that allow them to keep in touch with co-workers, customers, friends and family. Utilizing NotifyLink from Notify Technology, with the @ctiveLink and Visor, will provide a lightweight alternative to users who need to be notified of and have access to their e-mail messages, but do not want to carry a heavy laptop or have to seek out a computer terminal to log in to their e-mail account," stated Jim Kelly, Senior Vice President and Chief Marketing Officer at Glenayre.
Using Notify's NotifyLink with the @ctiveLink and Visor eliminates the need for "mobile" or separate e-mail accounts. Users will now have an extension to their personal and/or business e-mail -- obtaining real-time notification of and access to e-mails received in these accounts. Whether at work, on the road, or at play, users can respond to their e-mails using the Visor and @ctiveLink, but because the e-mail is routed through the user's personal or business e-mail account, the e-mail recipient will think the user is reading and responding to e-mails from their desk.
Users of Notify's service, NotifyLink, can decide which e-mails are forwarded to the Visor, as well as customize the information they receive in their notification. For example, the user's notification can include the sender's name, the e-mail subject line, the text of the e-mail and/or the file name of any attachments to the e-mail.
About Notify Technology Corp.
Founded in 1994, Notify Technology Corp. is an innovative Communications Application Service Provider of wireless and wireline messaging services. Notify Technology currently sells its products through OEM relationships with major telephone companies, telephone equipment distributors, Internet service providers and wireless service providers. The company is headquartered in San Jose, CA. For more information, see www.notifycorp.com or call 408-777-7920.
About Glenayre
For more than 35 years, Glenayre has developed and provided leading-edge personal communication systems for the global market. We are focused on delivering our Solutions for an @ctive World(TM) portfolio, leveraging core competencies in the converging sectors of the wireless Internet and unified messaging. Our wireless messaging products and systems include one- and two- way paging infrastructure equipment; award-winning Always @ctive(TM) two-way messaging devices; an array of Enhanced Services Platform products featuring voice mail, fax messaging, voice-activated services, personal one-number services; and debit/prepaid calling card platforms. Glenayre Technologies, Inc., headquartered in Charlotte, North Carolina, has 1,300 employees located in 14 countries with 1999 net sales exceeding $238 million. For more information on Glenayre, its products, and services, visit www.glenayre.com.
Glenayre, the Glenayre logo, Solutions for an @ctive World, the Solutions for an @ctive World logo, @ctiveLink and Always @ctive are trademarks of Glenayre Electronics, Inc.
Springboard and Visor are trademarks of Handspring, Inc.
Statements in this press release are forward-looking statements within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, and are subject to the safe harbors created thereby. Actual results could differ materially from these forward-looking statements as a result of the following factors: business conditions and growth in the telecommunications industry and general economics, both domestic and international; lower than expected customer orders and timing of actual orders; the timing and extent to which telephone companies adopt, initiate and promote programs involving the Company's products; competition from other suppliers of telephony adjunct devices; changes in product mix or distribution channels; technological difficulties and resource constraints encountered in developing new products; and additional factors discussed in the Company's public reports filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
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This link is a picture of how the 2 way module fits into the Handspring and a description of the service function.
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