New Apps

Field Service Automation
The FieldCentrix FX Enterprise Software automates field service operations. The processes that can be automated include communication between field techs and the office, work assignments, work orders, invoice and payroll. The software also features electronic signature capture, street maps and repair records. Through the FX Central W-ASP program, enterprise customers gain access to FX Enterprise Software, as well as database and system-management tools to monitor and tune the system. FX Central also features 24-hour monitoring, firewalls, security and backup. Routine maintenance, software and hardware upgrades are included in a monthly fee.
www.fieldcentrix.com or 800-552-0101

Field Service Support
Nortel Networks’ Wireless Field Service and Logistics solution extends Nortel’s eFrontOffice CRM solution to improve the efficiency and productivity of field service personnel. Using the solution, a field service rep can access the corporate Web site to check recent dispatch information with a WAP-enabled phone. The user then has mobile access to real-time inventory data, customer accounts and case information. Work schedules also can be re-assigned using the solution, which supports multiple carriers and devices.
www.nortelnetworks.com

Mobile Workforce Management
IMedion’s iM:Work 2.0 is a Web-based software suite that allows field service organizations to increase efficiency with mobile solutions. IM:Work includes a number of modules. IM:Optimizer allows users to optimize work schedules against work backlogs by suggesting the most efficient schedule and then dispatching crews to those jobs. IM:Analyzer is a results-management tool that consolidates field service data from many systems and provides quantitative measures of success. IM:Portal is an XML toolkit that allows the iM:Work suite to interface with other enterprise IT systems. The software supports any mobile network or device.
www.imedion.com

Content-Management Tool
Clickability’s Save This Wireless is a Web-content collection and organization tool that allows users to convert and deliver articles and other saved content into a wireless-appropriate format for any Web site that isn’t currently wirelessly enabled. Users launch the browser on a Web-enabled wireless device. Another function, called E-mail This, allows users to share articles and Web content.
www.clickability.com or 415-575-5125

Speed Browser
Speedwise offers a product line that allows end users of all networks to browse the Web at speeds up to six times faster than current speeds. The products allow carriers to provide their W-Internet users access to full text and graphics without installing additional software on the device. Speedwise is able to increase the speed by optimizing network usage by reducing the number of data packets and processing Internet content in real time.
www.speedwise.com

Search Functions
Pinpoint’s Wireless Search and Directory Engines and i3 Mobile’s mobile portal solutions create Search Anywhere, a unified search and navigation platform. The platform indexes current wireless-document formats and recognizes the different capabilities of mobile and wired devices to deliver mobile-specific information to a broad spectrum of Internet-capable devices such as PCs, mobile phones, pagers and PDAs. The keyword search allows access to Pin-point’s index of wireless Web pages.
www.pinpoint.com

Mobile App Server
Everypath’s Mobile App Server gives companies an in-house platform on which to convert information — including HTML, XML, legacy apps, databases and Web content — into mobile apps. Broadband and voice have been incorporated into the server, allowing it to service everything from devices with no display to interactive TV. The server is a Java-based, multithreaded platform that uses XML. It incorporates services such as alerts, wireless advertising, location-aware technology and off-line capabilities, as well as tools for developing mobile apps. The server includes a reports toolkit, a monitoring module and an administration console.
www.everypath.com

Workforce Management
ViryaNet’s Service Hub for Wireless Workforce Management is a suite of solutions aimed at improving organizational service delivery within field service companies. Service Hub streamlines service request logging; meets entitlement deadlines; improves scheduling efficiency; enhances dispatch notification; raises awareness of inventory; monitors daily operations; measures performance and closes the work-order loop.
www.viryanet.com

Voice Security
Persay, a subsidiary of Comverse Technology, introduces its Orpheus 2.0 voice-verification system. The system provides personal identity for apps running over fixed and mobile communications systems. Based on technology originally developed for highly classified defense apps, Orpheus 2.0 offers improved security over traditional PINs or passwords keyed into wireless devices.
www.persay.com

Smart Links
Mobileum offers an app session-management system that enables users to resume a session when connections are lost or terminated without having to reset or retrace steps. Smart-Session interacts directly with the app or Web server, enabling a device-independent and app-independent session-management system.
www.mobileum.com

Mobile Manager
Microsoft announces the availability of Microsoft Outlook Mobile Manager, a PC app that extends the power, reach and functionality of Microsoft Outlook to a wide variety of wireless devices.

Mobile Manager allows users to filter and prioritize e-mail notifications. The software employs technologies such as artificial intelligence, natural language processing and custom-izable priority profiles. Although it can operate as a standalone desktop application, Mobile Manager provides users with increased functionality when used in conjunction with Mobile Information 2001 Ser-ver; it also will be integrated with the upcoming release of Office XP (the newest version of Microsoft’s suite of productivity tools and programs), due for release in late spring.
www.microsoft.com

Image Manipulation
Simplylook announces Mobile Image, its software for serving optimized interactive images to wireless devices. Mobile Image allows users of wireless devices to retrieve images from the wireless Web and zoom in/out, pan around and access additional information linked to the image.

The software is capable of streaming only the data required to support the user’s request. The software uses just-in-time image delivery. Apps of interactive images include photographs linked to other information such as maintenance instructions or driving directions; drawings of floor plans for purchasing real estate or determining room dimensions; maps overlaid with information on traffic accidents, hotels and restaurants; real-time stock charts with links to news and buy/sell functions; and the ability to view e-mail attachments, presentations, word-processing documents and database applications.
www.simplylook.com

Multiplayer Games
Digital Bridges features the Unity technology platform, a device-independent development system that allows developers to create games that will work across all handsets and devices as well as existing network technologies and operating systems.

This is tied into a network of host servers, which are being rolled out into key territories. The company hosts the content and localizes it for its customers, thus allowing subscribers in different territories, using different devices, on different networks, playing multiplayer games against each other — all in different languages. The company currently works with Vodafone, 1-2-1, France Telecom and Omnitel.
www.digitalbridges.com

Web Conversion
Clickmarks has adapted its business plan so that it helps businesses adapt their sites and networks to sending information to mobile phones, hand-held devices and other wireless devices.

Although most devices have access to the Internet, their screens make it hard to view regular Web pages. Businesses that want to make their information available to wireless users must create a separate wireless version of the site. Clickmarks has created a system that automatically does the conversion, making it easier to send information via a range of devices.
www.clickmarks.com

Quiz Games
Buzztime is a producer and broadcaster of interactive trivia quiz shows and “play-along” sports games. The company currently has been offering games on the Sprint PCS network. Just 49 days after its launch, more than 120,000 subscribers played quiz games using Sprint’s network. The company offers entertainment, sports and general trivia quiz game shows. Sprint subscribers have averaged 5 minutes online per visit.
www.buzztime.com, www.predicttheplay.com

Keyword Navigation
RealNames’ Wireless Keyword Navigation System allows subscribers to access Web sites by typing in names of companies, brand names or product categories. It provides faster access to wireless Web content by allowing users to omit the “www,” “.com” and “/” in URLs. It includes an autocomplete function that reduces the required entry to a few characters. RealNames’ system supports character sets from many languages.
www.realnames.com

Location API
@Road established a formal API program and released software interfaces to support it. The company encourages third-party software developers and carriers to integrate the @Road location, information and communication capabilities into their offerings.

To further the development of enhanced mobile resource-management solutions, @Road plans to expand the licensing of its patented Location-Smart technology and offer an open-architecture platform to developers and carriers interested in working with @Road as Value-Added Solution Partners. @Road LocationSmart technology combines wireless, positioning and XML technologies with the Internet to support a wide range of solutions for fleet owners and mobile professionals.
www.atroad.com

Drug-Interaction Information
EPhysician’s A to Z Drug Facts with Facts and Comparisons is an app that allows doctors to access real-time information on 3,000 drugs and 26 therapeutic classes. The app features a menu-driven interface to its database. Users can search for a drug by generic or brand name or by therapeutic class. Information is available on drug warnings, interactions and dosing. EPhysician also offers ePad, a prescription app that electronically sends prescriptions to pharmacies.
www.ephysician.com

WAP Solution
The WAP Product Suite from RTS Wireless includes the Advantage WAP gateway, WAP app server and WAP apps such as e-mail, contacts and bookmarks. The gateway provides subscribers with access to the Internet and corporate information systems. The server is a scaleable and flexible development environment for deploying WAP apps. The WAP apps offered by RTS, which include e-mail, contacts and favorites, are designed to work with existing accounts and can be configured from the device or from a Web-page interface. An administrative app allows for the customization of the look and feel of the apps, the amount of data stored and URL restrictions for users.
www.rtswireless.com

Mobile Web Server
AlterEgo’s Mobile Web Server allows companies to create XSL templates that define the navigation, layout and format for each target device. Features of the server include SSL/TLS encryption; multiple data format input capability (HTML, XML, XSL, J2EE, COM, SQL, COBRA); automated runtime adaptation of HTML to XML data; app of XSL rules to XML data; available on Sun Solaris version 2.6, 7, 8; detection of current and future mobile device types and bandwidth; geographic location detection of device user; and integration with existing Web infrastructure platforms, such as content development, content management and app servers.
www.aego.net

Wireless Coupons
PlanetHopper, a real-time back-end marketing technology, issues instant Digital Deals (coupons or promotions) to opt-in consumers via wireless devices. The company recently forged an alliance with New Line Cinema to serve up time-sensitive, wireless deals. Digital Deals allows companies to target any specific audience during any desired business cycle. PlanetHopper already has established partnerships with Shecky’s Restaurant, Club and Lounge Guide, General Cinema Theatres, Atlantic Records and Tampa Bay Devil Rays to provide wireless deals.
www.planethopper.com

App Management
NetMorf has launched its Mobile ISV Program, which will enable independent software vendors to build, deploy and manage apps using a mobile business platform. Software developers can create new business apps based on SiteMorfer’s flexible and extensible architecture. Apps built with SiteMorfer incorporate m-Logic — attributes of both mobile users and devices — allowing ISV program members the development platform necessary to create a highly personalized mobile channel, or serve target markets such as CRM, SFA, e-commerce or online procurement.
www.netmorf.com

PC Modem
The Sierra Wireless AirCard 510 is a type II CDMA PC card modem that connects a user’s laptop directly to the Internet, intranet, corporate e-mail and other corporate apps. The AirCard 510 works with laptops running Windows 95, 98, NT and 2000. Using the card and a software app called Watcher, users can connect to the Internet or a corporate network over the Sprint PCS network. www.sierrawireless.com

Mobile Group Scheduling
NotWired’s Mobile Business Service allows users to create, send and receive meeting invitations to group members and external parties. Invitees then can accept or decline via their wireless devices. Other functions include a group phone book for 1-touch dialing to group members. When members update their personal contact information, the group phone book is updated as well.
www.notwired.com