November 13, 2001
Today at COMDEX, Cutting Edge Software, Inc. announces the release of Quickoffice Conference, a first-of-its-kind wireless application conferencing solution. Quickoffice Conference combines the power of wireless networking technologies with Cutting Edge Software“s Quickoffice, a suite of word processing, spreadsheet and charting applications for Palm OS handheld computers, enabling participants to simultaneously make edits to the same spreadsheet and see their changes take effect immediately. By holding a Quickoffice Conference, team members can collaborate on projects in real time regardless of location, making mobile professionals more efficient than ever and speeding the process of conducting business. Using Quickoffice Conference, workgroups will be able to extend the interactive, immediate functionality of mobile phones to their wireless Palm Powered devices. Members of a workgroup will be able to share files directly, editing spreadsheets and documents simultaneously on their wireless-equipped Palm Powered handhelds. This technology will include peer-to-peer and peer-to-multi-peer conferencing capabilities and supports the 802.11b wireless LAN protocol and CDPD, CDMA, GSM and GPRS wireless wide area data protocols, enabling users to participate in Quickoffice Conferences regardless of whether they are ”on campus„ or on the road.
”When we launched the very first Palm OS spreadsheet back in 1997, our aim was to provide mobile professionals with a tool for conducting their business anytime, anyplace,„ said Jeff Musa, Cutting Edge Software“s president and CEO. ”We are proud to once again be the first to break new ground by combining Quickoffice with today“s wireless communications technology.„
The first demonstration of the new Quickoffice Conference technology during COMDEX will highlight the spreadsheet collaborative capabilities of Quicksheet Conference Edition, due to the widespread reliance upon spreadsheet information in critical business decisions where immediate interaction and iteration enables faster decisions. Quickword Conference Edition is also in development, enabling workgroups to compose business proposals, contracts, term sheets, and other critical business communication documents collaboratively.
Workgroups will be able to conduct Quickoffice Conferences in either ”Collaboration„ or ”Presenter„ mode. In Collaboration Mode, multiple participants will be able to view, edit and control the files being worked on together. In Presenter Mode, a single conference participant will control the views on each of the participants“ devices.
Cutting Edge Software designed Quickoffice Conference to enable participants to use the wireless modems and WLAN solutions already in use by the vast majority of ”connected„ mobile professionals. The application also works with the latest models of wireless ”smart phones„ from Samsung, Handspring, Kyocera, among others.
”This is an exciting announcement for users of our recently introduced Samsung I300 Palm Powered smart-phone,„ said Todd Person, Business Development Manager for Samsung Telecommunication America. ”The Quickoffice Conference technology provides an incredible platform for our industry leading I300 handset to add appreciable value to individual business customers as well as corporate implementations
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