PUMATECH (NASDAQ: PUMA) Inc., the leading provider of the essential software infrastructure for the ubiquitous mobile Internet, and eturn.com, a new Web-based automatic contact update service, today announced a licensing agreement to provide eturn.com along with PUMATECH's Intellisync(R) synchronization platform. eturn will incorporate the popular synchronization engine from PUMATECH which will allow users to synchronize address book information between eturn and Palm(TM) handhelds, Microsoft Outlook 97/98/2000, ACT! and GoldMine Software. Both parties also plan to work together to leverage the capabilities of PUMATECH's Intellisync.com(SM) portal, which will provide synchronization, change detection/notification and Web-rendering/browsing capabilities when it is introduced during summer 2000.
"With increasing numbers of professional mobile device users demanding instant access to personal and professional contact information, we have worked to support companies like eturn.com with our Intellisync technology," said Brad Rowe, president, CEO and co-founder of PUMATECH. "eturn.com is valuable to the growing Internet contact space, and we are happy to be providing eturn users with Intellisync's robust synchronization capabilities."
Research shows that up to 50% of information in the average contact database is out of date and incorrect. The average person changes his/her contact data (i.e., email address, title, phone numbers, job title or home or work address) three times a year. With eturn.com, people can stay in touch with colleagues and friends automatically.
eturn.com will offer synchronization features from PUMATECH's Intellisync software, offering the benefits of the Intellisync platform at no additional charge to eturn members. This synchronization functionality will enable users to update contact information with a single streamlined process, increasing accuracy and saving time, compared with manually entering data from various sources.
"The addition of synchronization capabilities from PUMATECH's Intellisync solution reinforces our goal of delivering an automatic contact update service which complements the way individuals manage their important connections," said Juergen Jaekel, founder, president and CEO of eturn.com. "Using the Internet as a mechanism for pushing data, we can alleviate the increasingly onerous task of keeping one's address book current. With 40-50% of contact information becoming outdated every year, business professionals can not only save time and effort, but can enhance their ability to leverage their valuable contact networks through the combination of eturn and PUMATECH's Intellisync."
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