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Palm Names Inventor of Cardiac Monitor the Winner of Top Powered Up Award
Active Corporation, Revelation Computing, Handmark and Student Developer to be Honoured at PalmSource Conference and Expo
SYDNEY, December 11, 2001 - With more than 175,000 developers worldwide and approximately 1,300 more flocking to the Palm OS(R) platform each week, Palm, Inc. (Nasdaq: PALM) today recognised four of the most innovative developers with the first-ever Powered Up Awards. Active Corporation won the "Best Overall" award for its ActiveECG cardiac monitor, the first FDA-approved product for Palm Powered(TM) devices.
"The Powered Up Awards recognise originality in the vast Palm OS developer community and honor developers of the best applications," said Steve Sakoman, chief technology officer for the Palm OS platform. "There is a great deal of innovation in the categories of enterprise, productivity and education, leisure and entertainment, and among student developers, which made it difficult to select only four winners."
Winners were selected based on the following key criteria: innovation, newness to the category, value, ease of use and expansion.
Powered Up Award Winners
Best Enterprise Solution and Best Overall Solution:
ActiveECG from Active Corp.
Active ECG is a cost-effective, pocket-sized cardiac monitor
that records and analyses cardiac rhythms. A patient used
to spend hours in the emergency room waiting to be examined.
Now he is able to record his heart rhythms at home and email
the results to his cardiologist to be analysed. The Visiting
Nurses Association have used it to detect heart irregularities
in post-operative patients sent home, not scheduled to visit
the doctor for several days. Even veterinarians are using
it to help them more effectively read the cardiac rhythms
of their animal patients. http://www.activecenter.com/products.html
Best Productivity/Education Solution:
CopyWrite from Revelation Computing Pty Ltd
Educators use CopyWrite to teach young students how to write.
A teacher writes letters in one half of the screen and a student
tries to replicate the letters below.
http://homepage.powerup.com.au/~revcom/web/CWWorks.html
Best Leisure and Entertainment Solution: Handmark Scrabble
from Handmark, Inc. Handmark developed the classic board game
Scrabble for Palm Powered devices. Because the game supports
Bluetooth, players can challenge each other on different Palm
Powered devices. In addition, the game includes an Official
Player's Dictionary to resolve disputes.
http://www.handmark.com/products/scrabble/index.html
Best Student Developer Solution: Ultimate Table Hockey, developed
by high school student Bryant Lee Players use a stylus to
control paddles to block and score goals in this handheld
version of the classic air hockey game.
http://hamster1000.home.mindspring.com/bl.html
"We chose to develop for the Palm OS because it is the leading handheld platform, and it is widely accepted in the medical field," said Jeffrey Seigel of Active Corp. "There is an immense user base of medical professionals and individuals who already incorporate Palm Powered devices into their everyday lives and who recognise the incredible potential for new solutions on the platform."
Palm will present the "Best Overall" award at the PalmSource(R) Conference and Expo, which is set for Feb. 5-8, 2002, at the San Jose Convention Center in San Jose, Calif. http://www.palmsource.com
Developers who attend the PalmSource Conference will be among the first to learn how to design ARM-compatible applications, test and tune code in open labs equipped with ARM-based hardware. Attendees also will have access to the latest Palm Powered devices, the engineers who developed them and the latest information on new technologies, including Java for the Palm OS and Bluetooth.
Developers who wish to attend PalmSource can register at a reduced rate until Dec. 14. A special discount also is available for PalmSource alumni.
Information about applying for the next quarterly Powered Up Awards is available at http://www.palmos.com/dev/programs/poweredup/faq.html
PalmSource Conference and Expo
PalmSource is the premier gathering of the Palm Economy -- the community including more than 175,000 Palm OS developers and the group of world-class licensees who together have shipped more than 18 million Palm Powered devices. The PalmSource Conference is the essential event for Palm OS developers to network and hear firsthand about new business opportunities and technology updates. This year, PalmSource will include two new programs: an Enterprise Seminar for CIOs, IT decision-makers and business professionals; and a new PalmSource Expo, where Palm enthusiasts can see demonstrations of Palm Powered devices, accessories, and a wide variety of the more than 12,000 available Palm OS based applications. More information about PalmSource is available at http://www.palmsource.com
About Palm, Inc.
Palm, Inc. is a pioneer in the field of mobile and wireless
Internet solutions and a leading provider of handheld computers,
according to IDC (December 2000). Based on the Palm OS®
platform, Palm's handheld solutions allow people to carry
and access their most critical information with them wherever
they go. Palm(TM) handhelds address the needs of individuals,
enterprises and educational institutions through thousands
of application solutions.
The Palm OS platform is also the foundation for products from Palm's licensees and strategic partners, such as Franklin Covey, HandEra (formerly TRG), Handspring, IBM, Kyocera, Sony, and Symbol Technologies. Platform licensees also include Acer, Garmin, Nokia and Samsung. The Palm Economy is a growing global community of industry-leading licensees, world-class OEM customers, and more than 160,000 innovative developers and solution providers that have registered to develop solutions based on the Palm OS platform. Palm went public on March 2, 2000. Its stock is traded on the Nasdaq national market under the symbol PALM. More information is available at www.palm.com
Palm OS is a registered trademark, and Palm is a trademark of Palm, Inc. or its subsidiaries.
