October 30, 2001
GoAmerica, Inc. (NASDAQ: GOAM) a leading provider of wireless data solutions, and Bloomberg today announced immediate availability of BLOOMBERG for wireless devices through GoAmerica's Go.Web(TM) service.
Now BLOOMBERG PROFESSIONAL(R) users who depend upon Bloomberg for critical financial information can have wireless access to BLOOMBERG PHON on virtually any wireless device. Beginning today, the offering is available on RIM Wireless Handhelds (Blackberry), in addition to Palm, Pocket PC, Windows CE, laptops and phones.
"We all know that Bloomberg data is a necessity within the financial industry," said Holli Heflin, who heads GoAmerica's financial sales group. "We are very pleased that Bloomberg has decided to make its services available through GoAmerica, and we believe that this will quickly become a very valuable tool for financial professionals."
"Now our clients can access information on their Blackberry while on-the-go which is a real added value," said Ben Fortunato of Bloomberg's Product Strategy Group. "When developing BLOOMBERG PHON, it was important to us to provide customers with excellent coverage, security and functionality, and we are proud to have created such a versatile wireless offering for PHON with GoAmerica."
Through Go.Web, Bloomberg customers can now access the following:
Top News: View the latest international stories from the top news categories.
Messages: Retrieve messages from the Bloomberg terminal MSG function and compose and send messages to another Bloomberg terminal user or to any Internet address. Charts: View one and three-month historical charts for any quote requested.
Quotes: Retrieve quotes from NYSE, NASDAQ, AMEX, London, Tokyo, Osaka, JASDAQ, Swiss, Frankfurt, Xetra, Hong Kong, Paris, Milan, Madrid, Amsterdam, Stockholm and Copenhagen exchanges.
Worksheet: Retrieve any worksheets from the W, NW function on the Bloomberg terminal. As many as 100 symbols will be displayed for each worksheet selected and last price, absolute change, percentage change and time of last trade information will all be available. Realtime quotes may be available as well.
Ticker Lookup: Search for a ticker by entering a full or partial company name.
Market Movers: View delayed prices for volume leaders, leading movers and lagging movers from the world's major stock exchanges.
Indices: Retrieve pricing for DOW, S&P 500, NASDAQ, EURO 500, FTSE 100, CAC 40, DAX, MIB 30, IBEX 35, Swiss Market Index, TPX, Hang Seng, TSE 300, Mexico BOLSA, BOVESPA, Argentina Market Index, ASX, Singapore Straits Time Index exchanges.
Currencies: Retrieve pricing for GBP, EUR, FRF, DEM, ITL, JPY, CHF, Spanish Peseta, CAD, Brazil Real, Argentine Peso, Mexican Peso, Hong Kong Dollar, Singapore Dollar, AUD quoted against the US dollar.
For more information about BLOOMBERG for wireless devices please contact GoAmerica at 1-866-213-9337 or send an email to bloomberg@goamerica.net.