Weather in Your Hand; The Weather Channel Teams With 3Com to Provide
Palm VII Users Instant Weather Access
BUSINESS WIRE - 10:39 a.m. May 25, 1999 Eastern
ATLANTA--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 25, 1999--The Weather Channel(R)
announced that it is putting weather information in the palm of consumers'
hands.
The Weather Channel is the premier weather information provider for the new
Palm VII (TM) organizer, a new and wireless handheld computing product
from Palm Computing, Inc., a 3Com company (Nasdaq: COMS). Available
today in the New York Metropolitan tri-state area, the Palm VII device offers
users instant access to up-to-the-minute weather information from the
all-weather network's Web site, www.weather.com. The Palm VII organizer
enables users to quickly and easily access information from The Weather
Channel database of more than 1,300 domestic cities -- including the latest
local conditions, five-day forecasts and severe weather updates -- via a
wireless connection to the Internet.
"The Weather Channel is continually seeking better ways to deliver
information to its users, and we are proud to work with Palm Computing,"
said Mike Carey, Senior Vice President, The Weather Channel New Media.
"The extension of our Web content to this platform allows us to move one
step closer to our ultimate goal, providing weather to users wherever they
need it, and allows us to extend our highly successful Web site,
weather.com. With the Palm VII organizer, weather information is always
up-to-date and available, even when a television or PC is not accessible."
"The Weather Channel's trusted and reliable contribution of weather data adds
yet another convenient and customer-friendly resource to the Palm VII
organizer," said Andrea Butter, acting vice president of marketing for Palm
Computing, a 3Com company. "Whether customers are traveling on business
or pleasure, or simply in their own hometown, they will now have access to
up-to-date weather conditions via the world's favorite organizer."
The Weather Channel gives Palm VII device users accurate and timely
weather information including current conditions updated hourly and
forecasts updated three to four times a day. Additionally, weather headlines
are updated as often as six times per day during periods of extreme weather.
BACKGROUND
The Weather Channel, based in Atlanta, is the nation's premier provider of
weather information and the only 24-hour, national weather network seen in
over 72 million cable homes nationwide.
The Weather Channel web site, weather.com, averages than 125 million page
views every month, and is consistently ranked as the top single content news
site by Media Metrix. Web partnerships include CompuServe, iVillage,
MindSpring, AOL's Digital City, About.com, LookSmart and others.
The Weather Channel New Media & Local Services Division is the leading
weather provider for new and emerging technologies. This division offers
The Weather Channel's expertise and unparalleled weather products for
broadband, interactive TV, analog and digital cable and satellite, wireless
devices, telephony, radio, and newspaper. Partners include Web TV,
@Home, Roadrunner, SUN, Worldgate, Wink, GTE Airfone, AT&T
Wireless, TCI HITS, SkyTel, Palm Computing and Seoultel among others.
The Weather Channel is owned by Landmark Communications, a Norfolk,
Va.-based privately held media company with global interests.
The Palm VII connected organizer is the first handheld solution for
out-of-the-box wireless communications and Internet access. In addition to
providing fast and simple access to personal and business information, the
Palm VII organizer enables users to quickly, easily and securely obtain
information from Web sites via a wireless connection to the Internet and
provides a means of instant two-way personal communications. The Palm VII
organizer enters a national field trial in January, 1999, and is expected to be
widely available in the U.S. next year.
With the Palm VII organizer, 3Com also introduces a revolutionary new
model for accessing Internet information, called web clipping. Web clipping
is a means of extracting a specific set of needed information from a given
Web site, by requesting certain types of information via special query forms
that reside on the Palm VII device. Information received from the Internet by
a Palm VII user is automatically optimized for viewing on the Palm VII
screen.
3Com and Palm Computing are registered trademarks, and Palm VII is a
trademark of 3Com Corporation or its subsidiaries.
Copyright 1999, Business Wire
Sorry Mark, I (for one), don't know about Citrix.
I haven't heard but does anyone know if the palms can be used as a thin client with Citrix?
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