Firepad Offers Source Code Licensing for its Mobile Multimedia Platform

Firepad's developer relations program, in operation since 2000, now offers source code licenses to its larger end users.

Costa Mesa (PRWEB) February 8, 2004 --Effective February 1, 2004, Firepad has made its patent-pending mobile multimedia source code available for license by third parties.

"In 2003, Firepad developed more relationships with Fortune 500 firms like Novartis," said CEO Bill Mitchell, "and we came to appreciate the win-win nature of narrow source licenses to large IT organizations.

"With over $3 million invested in the world's only end-to-end, TCP/IP-based multimedia platform for Palm handhelds, Firepad is in a position to supercharge the field force automation efforts of a wide variety of larger companies."

Firepad makes and sells six software applications for servers, Windows and Mac desktops, and PalmOS handhelds. The applications are tightly integrated to deliver configurable multimedia documents to Palm-compatible handhelds anywhere in the world.

"There's basically no one else out there supporting the broad sweep of formats and delivery methods for handheld content," Mitchell said. "Firepad lets you put essentially any desktop or Web image on your Palm, quickly and easily. Using standard HTML tools like FrontPage, organizations can use the Firepad architecture to quickly create, distribute and view standalone handheld multimedia presentations like product demonstrations. Content can be distributed by HotSync, email, HTTP or beaming. We support both push and pull content delivery. And, of course, we offer live wireless video that integrates right into the HTML-based presentations."

ABOUT FIREPAD

Firepad, based in Costa Mesa, California, makes and sells software to create and publish rich media on the most inexpensive handheld devices. Firepad's client/server platform is the world's only system to employ standard HTML tools to generate and flexibly distribute mobile multimedia documents containing zoomable images and streaming video. For three years, Firepad has remained the only company in the world to sell a wireless video solution compatible with all Palm handhelds built since 1998.

More information about Firepad can be found on the World Wide Web at http://www.firepad.com. Product information is at http://www.firepad.com/catalog/.

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