BellSouth Interactive Paging Service to be Showcased At Red Herring's Venture
Market South Event
WOODBRIDGE, N.J.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 16, 1999--More than 500 venture
capitalists, members of the investment banking and professional services
community, business development representatives from large technology
companies and entrepreneurs attending the three-day Venture Market South
event in Atlanta, March 15-17, will stay wirelessly connected to important
colleagues, business contacts, and even friends and family with the BellSouth
Interactive Paging Service. The advanced interactive messaging service from
BellSouth Wireless Data was chosen to be showcased during the event. The
company will provide RIM Inter@ctive(TM) Pager 950's to the 500 attendees at
the show.
Produced by Red Herring Communications Inc., Venture Market South will
feature 44 of the Southeast's most promising private technology companies,
which will make presentations in an attempt to secure venture capital
financing and business development deals. When equipped with the BellSouth
Interactive Paging Service, attendees will be able to easily communicate via
Internet e-mail to anywhere in the world, pager, phone or fax, with their
colleagues at the office and peers at the conference.
"Venture Market South is a perfect venue to showcase our industry-leading
technology to an audience that epitomizes the term 'people on-the-go,'" said
William F. Lenahan, president and CEO of BellSouth Wireless Data. "These deal
makers need to stay always connected so that they do not miss a million
dollar opportunity, even when they're at a conference like Venture Market
South. The BellSouth Interactive Paging Service can help them to do just
that." "We select only the hottest and most productive technologies available
today to showcase at our Venture Market programs," said John Mecklenburg,
managing editor, events. "Clearly, the BellSouth Interactive Paging Service
fits that category and will be a significant value-add for those attending
our conference."
Introduced in September 1998, the BellSouth Interactive Paging Service offers
people on the go the ability to initiate and respond to messages in seconds
rather than minutes via Internet e-mail and other pagers, and send messages
to fax machines and telephones. Interactive paging uses the RIM Inter@ctive
Pager 950, a wearable, hand-held device with a full keyboard that uses an
Intel386(TM) processor.
About Red Herring Communications, Inc.
Red Herring Communications, Inc., a privately held San Francisco based media
company, meets the specialized information needs of strategic business
decision makers. Red Herring, the monthly business magazine for technology,
focuses on trends in technology and the companies driving them. Red Herring's
high-level industry conferences, such as the Venture Market series and NDA,
bring the trends to life and showcases the emerging companies behind the
innovations. Redherring.com provides business professionals and personal
investors with daily technology news, analysis and in-depth company profiles. |
