Headline: Motorola and Glenayre to Co-Host 1999 Wireless Developers Conference:
'Innovations Unleashed'; PageMart and SkyTel Join as Major Sponsors
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SANTA CLARA, Calif., June 2 /PRNewswire/ -- Glenayre Technologies Inc.
(NASDAQ:GEMS) announced today that Motorola Inc. and Glenayre will co-host
the industry's first developers' conference devoted entirely to building great
ReFLEX(TM) technology two-way wireless applications. Glenayre additionally
announced two major industry sponsors of the conference: PageMart Wireless
Inc. and SkyTel Communications Inc. The newly formed Personal Communicator
Wireless Alliance also has endorsed this event. The Motorola-Glenayre 1999
Wireless Developers Conference, with its theme of "Innovations Unleashed,"
will be held at the Hyatt Regency San Francisco Airport Hotel,
June 17-18, 1999.
"Our announcement today confirms that the Innovations Unleashed
developers' conference is truly an industry event," said Don Gayton,
conference chairman and chief technical officer for Glenayre's Wireless
Messaging Group. "We are pleased to have the support of the major
organizations within the ReFLEX technology industry."
"The ReFLEX technology industry is moving into its next phase of market
development," said Julie Shimer, vice president, Motorola's Smart and
Connected Products. "This conference is expected to allow all the industry
participants to share information and help communicate standards so that we
may harness a great number of commercial applications."
The conference is expected to help provide opportunities for application
developers, equipment manufacturers and wireless carriers to share recent
innovations and explore future directions in wireless messaging. Also, the
conference will feature technical seminars, discussions and demonstrations of
the many applications that are helping to transform wireless data, including
wireless e-mail, advanced services, information services, telemetry
applications, location detection applications and others.
In addition to the seminars and demonstrations, an exhibit hall adjoining
the main conference rooms will display products and services offered by paging
carriers, applications developers and manufacturers. Further conference and
registration information can be obtained at Glenayre's Web site:
glenayre.com .
The Personal Communicator Wireless Alliance is a broad alliance of the
world's largest paging carriers and manufacturers. The group formed to
develop and market personal digital assistants (PDAs) embedded with Motorola's
ReFLEX communications technology. The primary goal of the group is to work
with PDA manufacturers to create an extensive variety of handheld devices that
provide hassle-free, two-way wireless messaging for consumers. Companies in
the Personal Communicator Wireless Alliance include manufacturers Motorola and
Glenayre Technologies, as well as wireless messaging companies AirTouch
Paging, Arch Communications Group, Conxus, Metrocall, MobileComm, PageMart
Wireless, PageNet, SkyTel and TSR Wireless.
Motorola Inc., (NYSE:MOT) (http://www.motorola.com ) is a global leader
in providing integrated communications solutions and embedded electronic
solutions. These include software enhanced wireless telephone, two-way radio,
messaging and satellite communications products and systems, as well as
networking and Internet access products, for consumers, network operators, and
commercial, government and industrial customers. Sales in 1998 were
$29.4 billion.
PageMart Wireless Inc. (NASDAQ:PMWI) is a leader in the wireless
messaging industry, providing advanced messaging and traditional paging
services in the United States through the largest terrestrial-based, two-way
wireless data network of any kind. The Dallas-based company, which serves
more than 2.5 million customers, recorded total revenues of $312 million for
the year ended Dec. 31, 1998. For more information, visit PageMart's Web site
at www.pagemart.com .
SkyTel (NASDAQ:SKYT) (http://www.skytel.com ) is a leader in wireless
messaging, serving more than 1.6 million customers. Since 1989, SkyTel has
led the industry toward true nationwide messaging through a series of
innovations that culminated in SkyTel two-way interactive messaging service.
This enables customers to exchange messages with the Internet and other
pagers, receive messages via e-mail and the Internet, and send messages to any
telephone in the United States. Sales in 1998 were $518 million.
For over 30 years, Glenayre Technologies Inc (NASDAQ:GEMS) has been
developing leading edge personal communication systems. Supplying products
for both one-way and two-way paging networks, Glenayre also offers the
industry's premiere migration solution from one-way systems to two-way
functionality. With approximately 2,000 employees and with products installed
in over 100 countries, Glenayre's net sales exceeded $399 million in 1998.
Additional information about the company is available at
glenayre.com .
For more information on the conference, please contact Dale Mortimer,
manager of business development for Glenayre's Wireless Messaging Group at
dale.mortimer@glenayre.com or (604) 293-5284.
Motorola and ReFLEX are registered trademarks of Motorola Inc.
SOURCE Glenayre Technologies, Inc.
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