HP And Everypath Announce Mobile E-Services Alliance

Companies Collaborate to Give Wireless-Device Users Easy Access to Personalized Web Services

Hewlett-Packard Company and Everypath, Inc., a Santa Clara, Calif.-based mobile application services provider, today announced an agreement to co-develop and co-market a new wireless Internet service that will make it easy for companies to deliver personalized e-services to mobile-device users.

The new service will allow users of mobile devices, such as smart phones and Palm Inc.'s Palm VII organizer, to connect at any time to their most important Web services -- including e-banking, stock trading and online auctions -- and complete e-commerce transactions directly from the device.

For companies that want to deliver wireless Web services, the HP and Everypath solution offers two major benefits: 

-- It will provide a turnkey hosted solution, which will help companies quickly establish wireless connections with customers; and

-- It will allow multiple Web services to be connected into a seamless personalized offering for mobile-device users via HP's innovative e-speak open software platform, which is designed specifically for the development, deployment and intelligent interaction of e-services.

"Consumers don't want to hold the whole Web in their hands. What they want is a surgical strike into the Web that gives them the ability to get active content that meets their needs at a single moment in time," said wireless industry analyst Andrew Seybold, senior partner, Andrew Seybold Group. "The promise of Everypath's relationship with HP is to enable exactly this type of active content, using e-speak to bind applications together."

The market for enabling wireless data experiences is poised for tremendous growth, due to the increasing recognition of the importance of knowledge workers and the need for instant access to real-time information. With the new service, for example, a consumer could access a financial service built with e-speak that could communicate with a mortgage service to automatically update the user's balances and fees. The service could then recalculate other information based on changes in various accounts and display this on a mobile device. A user could also book an airline ticket with a Palm VII, and, upon confirmation, initiate a personalized e-service that would seamlessly connect with Web services from hotels, car-rental agencies and other travel service providers.

"When you combine Everypath's mobile expertise with HP's breadth of products and leadership technology, services and support, you get a winning combination," said Everypath's chief executive officer, Venktesh Shukla. "This agreement demonstrates HP's recognition of Everypath's potential market success in the rapidly expanding mobile Internet arena."

"Our collaboration with Everypath will accelerate the development of the wireless Web infrastructure that customers need to make e-services work for them anytime, anywhere," said Nick Earle, president of HP's E-services.Solutions organization. "There is a huge market opportunity for mobile e-services, and HP is pleased to contribute its experience and technology to Everypath to create a leadership solution."

Everypath's technology is innovative in that no reprogramming of existing sites is required to enable wireless access. This dramatically decreases a company's time to market in deployment of its Web services to mobile devices. Furthermore, Everypath technology allows mobile-device users to perform secure transactions in real time, which should help spur explosive growth in mobile commerce.

HP will integrate the Everypath technology into a hosting environment, providing customers a turnkey wireless e-services solution that features HP's best-in-class network-management services, HP-UX(1) and NT computing systems, and firewall and intrusion protection software. The companies will also develop an e-speak adapter to Everypath's Rendering Tool, which will accelerate the process for creating e-speak applications for mobile devices.


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