To: Katie Kommando who wrote (21137 ) 1/21/2000 2:16:00 AM From: Jim Bishop Respond to of 150070
TRAC news: TRACK DATA ANNOUNCES PALM PILOT ACCESS TO ITS ONLINE TRADING SYSTEM NEW YORK-January 21, 1999-Track Data Corporation (Nasdaq NMS: TRAC) announced today that all Palm Pilot VII users can now access its myTrack online trading system. myTrack members can use their Palm VII devices to access quotes, place trades, and check positions. The Palm Pilot VII is a product of 3Com Corporation (Nasdaq: COMS). "The Palm Pilot VII has the extraordinary advantage of mobility," said Barry Hertz, Track Chairman and CEO. "Having a trading system that can be accessed by the Palm is a great service to our members. When they're at their PC, they can use myTrack's fully integrated trading screen with streaming real-time quotes and news to track their portfolio and place trades. When they're on the go, they can use their Palm Pilot VII to keep tabs on their portfolio and place a trade. All we need now is for 3Com to build a water-proof Palm so members can check their portfolios and trade in the shower." To access myTrack from a Palm VII, users can download the web clipping file at mytrack.com . Track Data first announced its intentions to build a system to allow wireless Internet access on December 31, 1999 and estimated the service would be available February 1, 2000. "We were so excited about the Palm Pilot development, we got the project done early," said Hertz. "Wireless Internet technology for online trading has only just begun and is projected to have wide acceptance by the investing community over the next few years. We also plan to interface with additional wireless devices in the near future." Earlier this year, Track announced an agreement with Flextrader.com to develop a wireless trading platform for the RIM Interactive pager. (See Track's 1/7/00 Press Release for further details.) Track Data is a New York-based financial services company that offers myTrack, a fully integrated Internet-based online trading and market data system. myTrack offers the first week of trading commission-free. (To open a trading account, go to mytrack.com and click on the "Open a Trading Account" button.) myTrack delivers a continuous dynamic stream of live market data and investors' online trading activity. myTrack has offered online trading since June, 1999 and is currently executing more than 5,000 trades per day. Trading is offered at prices starting at $12.95 per trade. myTrack is delivered over the Internet powered by application-based software and a constant server connection similar to systems used by professionals, making it faster than the HTML web site-based static pages offered by most of its competitors, such as E*Trade (Nasdaq: EGRP), Schwab (NYSE: SCH) and Ameritrade (Nasdaq: AMTD). myTrack delivers free streaming delayed quotes and unlimited free real-time extended quotes, as well as breaking company news, a trade by trade log, charting for technical analysis and a proprietary library of intraday market statistics. For $19.98 per month plus exchange fees, users can subscribe to streaming real-time quotes. A menu of features, including Nasdaq Level II, is available separately or in value packages. Download myTrack software or open a trading account at mytrack.com or call 1-800-myTrack. For information about myTrack's SDK, go to mytrack.com . Track Data provides real-time financial market data, news, fundamental research, charting and analytical services to institutional and individual investors through dedicated telecommunication lines and the Internet. _______________________________________________________________ If you do not wish to receive any more e-mail regarding myTrack please forward this email message to unsubscribe@tdc.com.