Red-M, a pioneering developer of Bluetooth networking solutions and subsidiary of Madge Networks N.V, has teamed up with AvantGo, a leading provider of mobile infrastructure software and services, to enable mobile access to information and content and applications provided over Bluetooth networks.
Bluetooth provides a powerful mechanism for the distribution of content to handheld devices such as Personal Digital Assistants (PDAs) and information appliances. By attaching to a Bluetooth network, these devices can have an always-on connection ensuring the content and information is always up-to-date. By combining Red-M`s award-winning Bluetooth networking technology with AvantGo`s M-Business solutions`, access to content and applications can be extended beyond the Bluetooth network allowing users to view and interact with information while on the move. When re-entering a Red-M Bluetooth network, changes and updates can be automatically re-synchronised.
This combination of technology is a powerful enabler for third generation mobile applications where users move between multiple Bluetooth networks. For example, a traveller can synchronise a copy of an airline duty free shopping catalogue through AvantGo on their PDA while in a Red-M Bluetooth enabled lounge.
During the flight, they could view the interactive catalogue and make purchases using the AvantGo software.
At the destination airport, their selections would be automatically downloaded across the Red-M Bluetooth network and the transaction completed. The duty free items could then be available for the traveller on their return journey through the airport.
David Rice, Managing Director, AvantGo Mobile Internet comments, "Our software already provides customers with interactive and personalised Internet content and web-based applications via mobile devices from over 1000 public content sources and channels. Corporate customers can also benefit by using the same technology on their own corporate networks and Extranets. Teaming up with Red-M will allow us to extend our capability even further to offer customers the advantages of Bluetooth technology. We are delighted to be working with Red-M because the company is acknowledged as a leading developer of pioneering Bluetooth products."
Simon Gawne, Vice President of Marketing and Business Development, adds, "AvantGo is a pioneer in the delivery of wireless solutions and synchronisation software. This alliance will enable us to offer users increased mobility and flexibility. We believe that the advanced capabilities of Bluetooth will provide direct benefits to the business, consumer and a number of vertical markets, with a particularly compelling application for any industries needing to provide timely and accurate information for their mobile customers."
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AvantGo
AvantGo, Inc is a leading provider of infrastructure software and services that power the mobile economy. AvantGo M-Business software enables businesses to increase the value of their corporate information systems by extending existing enterprise applications and critical information to employees, customers and business partners. The company also provides the AvantGo mobile Internet service, a hosted network that enables hundreds of businesses to deliver their content and applications to more than two million mobile consumers. AvantGo is a pioneer in delivering real-world solutions for both wireless and off-line use.
Bluetooth
The Bluetooth wireless technology is set to revolutionise the personal connectivity market by providing freedom from wired connections. It is a specification for a small form-factor, low-cost radio solution providing links between mobile computers, mobile phones and other portable and handheld devices, and connectivity to the Internet. The Bluetooth Special Interest Group (SIG), comprised of leaders in the telecommunications, computing, and network industries, is driving development of the technology and bringing it to market. The Bluetooth SIG includes promoter companies 3Com, Ericsson, IBM, Intel, Lucent, Microsoft, Motorola, Nokia and Toshiba, and more than 1800 adopter companies.
For further information, please contact Peter Turvey, Sales Director, Red-M South Africa at tel. (011) 807 2480; fax (011) 807 2490; e-mail peter.yurvey@red-m.com
Red-M
Launched in May 2000, Red-MTM is a subsidiary of Madge Networks N.V., and is a pioneering developer of Bluetooth networking solutions. Bluetooth is the emerging local wireless technology backed by an industry consortium of over 2,100 of the world`s leading companies. Red-M`s BIASTM (Bluetooth Internet access server) technology provides advanced data, voice and video services to a range of Bluetooth enabled devices including computers, personal digital assistants (PDAs), wireless application protocol (WAP) smart phones and other emerging information appliances. Red-M, an Associate Member of the Bluetooth Special Interest Group (SIG), won the first ever Award for Innovation at the annual Bluetooth Congress in June 2000 and more recently PC Magazine`s UK `Technical Innovation Award`, and is widely recognised as a leading innovator in Bluetooth technology. In October 2000, Red-M announced the world`s first Bluetooth networking product solutions. Information on Red-M can be found on the World Wide Web www.red-m.com