NEWS FLASH 2000 - 23 (July 2000)
(Updated on July 11,  2000)

PRODUCTS, SERVICES & APPLICATIONS

ThinkersGroup.com Ready to Market its Wireless-to-Web App Making XML Rendering Obsolete

ThinkersGroup.com announced it had completed Beta testing of its Web-to-wireless application – ThinkMotion Unibrowse Application Programmer’s Interface (API) – that seamlessly translates any HTML site to any wireless device, regardless of browser, protocol, or mark-up language. The application eliminates any mapping, XML or outside conversion, in essence no modifications are required.

Instead of Web sites having to be converted into a different format for wireless devices, the ThinkMotion product is an intelligent application utilizing a multi-threaded process to quickly identify the requesting device and deliver the Web site to the handheld device. The embedded technology obtains the requested information, translates that information from HTML into WML and delivers that information in the proper format.

A company implementing ThinkMotion would select the key "branding" elements of its site, such as content and graphics, to display on wireless devices and would use exactly the same URL as its PC-based URL.

For more information: www.thinkersgroup.com/

Mobileinfo Comments and Advisory: ThinkMotion Unibrowse is a good approach to mapping HTML to wireless devices. Key test is how efficiently (from network traffic perspective) it does this and what controls it gives users in modifying the interface because the same interface as on PC is neither desirable nor sustainable.  

Note: This news release may contain forward-looking statements. Readers should take appropriate caution in developing plans utilizing these products, services and technology architectures.

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