Curious Networks Answers Demand For Mobile-enabled Software
July 17, 2001
ZDWire Plus via NewsEdge Corporation : Curious Networks Inc. on Monday
unveiled a product designed to help software manufacturers keep up with the
growing customer demand for wireless access to their applications.
The Chicago-based company introduced the Continuum Embedded Edition,
which software makers can incorporate into their applications. Users of those
applications can then access them via all variations of Internet-enabled mobile
phones and Palm, RIM and Windows CE devices.
The product, which also includes voice-recognition capabilities, uses Curious
Networks' own brand of XML, called MAXML (Multi-Channel Access XML), which enables
the applications to work on the various devices.
The company will show off the Continuum Embedded Edition at the CRM Solutions
conference in Chicago July 30 to Aug. 2.
CEO David Cutler said software makers are under increasing pressure from their
customers to make their applications accessible to wireless devices. For the most part,
manufacturers either have to make their own wireless technology -- which can be costly
and can significantly impact the applications -- or have their customers buy software
from third parties.
With Curious Networks' embedded technology -- which is available immediately --
software makers can make wireless capabilities part of the application that they sell
to customers, making their technology more attractive as well as easier and cheaper for
the customer.
"We make it very quick and easy to do," Cutler said. "Before, you had to go in and
build customized support for all of these devices. They had to do it themselves or not
do it at all."
Interface Software Inc., of Oak Brook, Ill., currently is using the embedded
voice-recognition technology to develop a voice portal prototype for its CRM
(customer relationship management) software that is targeted to professionals such as
lawyers and accountants.
"Professionals are the type of people you can't expect to be working with a Web
browser all the time," said Mitch Grossbach, Interface Software's vice president of
business development. "There's a definite need #91;for wireless access to applications]
because the customers we cater to are billable, and not always in the office. They're
often on the road."
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