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Mobile phones learn to print

With Content Beamer 2.0, users of mobile phones, laptops and PDAs can access any information and print or fax it.
Johannesburg, 24 Feb 2004

ThinPrint, locally distributed by IT Wise, announced Content Beamer 2.0, a unique software solution which equips mobile phones, PDAs and laptops with currently unparalleled functionality for mobile deployment.

This patent-pending innovation from the Berlin-based software developer lets mobile end devices access any sized files in a corporate network or on the Internet and display the information as text or send it to a printer using infrared or Bluetooth. If no suitable printer is available, the document can also be sent to a fax machine.

How does Content Beamer work? The mobile device sends a print request to the remote computer. As a rule, the document is addressed with a link or selected from the drive directory with a browser. The server opens the document with the relevant application and creates a print job. This is then greatly compressed and sent over optimised bandwidth to the mobile end device. The transmitted data amount is, thanks to the print technology, 10 times smaller than a fax transmission. Once at the mobile end device, the print job - adapted to the device`s capabilities - can be displayed or printed from the next available printer.

"With Content Beamer, we enter a new era of mobile communication. Finally, workers are not only reachable with their mobile telephones and PDAs, they are also operational," states Arno`t van Heerden, Sales Director at IT Wise. "Mobile access to e-mails and corporate applications offers businesses tremendous added value, higher productivity, and an important competitive advantage."

Content Beamer 2.0 supports all mobile internet protocols like WAP 1.1., WAP 2.0, and HTML.

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Arno`t van Heerden
IT WISE
(012) 665 2204
arnot@itwise.co.za