TRG Products Announces Licensing Agreement With OpenSky
SANTA CLARA, Calif. — October 19, 1999 — TRG Products, Inc., today announced at PalmSource'99 that it has licensed custom installation software to OpenSky, a company formed in June of this year by industry leaders to offer next generation wireless communication services, including Internet and email access on popular handheld devices.
The TRG software will make it easy for end users to install OpenSky wireless service software on their Palm OS computing platforms. OpenSky plans to release more details on their wireless service offering on November 15.
TRG's New Technology Group, which develops and licenses custom software and hardware products for the Palm OS platform market, has developed a custom deployment tool for OpenSky that builds a complete image of the software to be installed on Palm OS platforms. This tool allows the user to install the image in non-volatile memory on a Palm(R) platform with a standard HotSync(R).command.
"The agreement between OpenSky and TRG Products demonstrates the type of relationships that Palm's licensing of its OS can foster. TRG' mission is to support the growth of the Palm OS platform through a series of products that allow companies to fully customize the base OS and applications on a Palm device," said Ernie Rudolph, president of TRG Products. "As a leader in delivering tools for customization of the nonvolatile space in the Palm devices, we save application developers and platform developers time and effort by providing off-the-shelf and custom tools for adapting and implementing applications and operating software in the Palm environment."
About TRG
TRG, a privately owned company headquartered in Des Moines, Iowa, the heart of the Silicon Prairie, has partnered with Palm Computing since 1997, and announced this month their agreement with Palm to be a licensee of the Palm Computing(R) platform. It is the only company to date to design, develop and deliver additional memory capacity and technology to the Palm platform based on industry standard CompactFlash Technology.
The company is divided into 3 distinct Groups: hardware; software; and new technology/ technical support. The Hardware Group is responsible for development and marketing of the TRGpro handheld computer; the Software Group, development and marketing of Palm platform and compatibles software and utility solutions; and the New Technology/Technical Support Group, the business of cross-licensing technology and providing pre-sales technical support to potential customers.
Since 1997, TRG's Internet sales model has allowed them to sell products in 90 countries on all seven continents.
TRG Products is located at 2851 104th Street, Suite H, Des Moines, IA, 50322; 515-252-7522 x0. For more information about the TRGpro handheld, customers can email: sales@trgnet.com or visit the new web site that will go live on Oct. 19: www.trgpro.com.
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