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Stand Alone Launches Quick News for Palm Powered™ Mobile Devices at PalmSource Mobile Summit & DevCon 2005
Press Contact:
Ben Gottlieb, President
Stand Alone, Inc.
(773) 527–7623
info@standalone.com
Quick News allows fast and easy access to online news sources and podcasts on Palm Powered™ devices.
SAN JOSE, Calif., PalmSource Mobile Summit & DevCon, May 24, 2005 — Stand Alone, Inc., a leading provider of handheld software products, today announced the release of Quick News 1.1 for Palm Powered™ devices and smartphones, a powerful RSS news client. Quick News is the first product to automate and simplify podcast downloading, making it easy to have up–to–the minute information delivered to Palm Powered™ mobile devices for ready–to read or listen news feeds and podcasts on the go.
"Quick News takes advantage of the advanced capabilities of Palm OSÒ designed to enable users to harness the power of RSS feeds and podcasts," said Larry Berkin, director of developer marketing, PalmSource, Inc. "We believe that the combination of Quick News and a Palm Powered™ smartphone truly empowers users by giving them fast and easy access to the latest headlines and breaking news from across the Web anytime, anywhere."
Quick News 1.1 expands the already popular application, taking it to the next logical step by automating not just news updates, but also podcast audio downloads. In addition, it also supports the internal memory partitions on newer Palm Powered™ devices, allowing far more on–device information storage. With Quick News 1.1's automated update feature, users can easily set Palm Powered™ devices to download the latest news and favorite podcasts overnight, ready for reading and listening by the next morning.
Stand Alone, Inc. has been a leader in the handheld market space for over ten years. With its wide range of product offerings, Stand Alone provides a broad spectrum of software solutions for Palm Powered™ handhelds. For more information about Stand Alone products, or to download Quick News, please visit our website at www.standalone.com.
About Stand Alone
Founded in 1995, Stand Alone, Inc. is a premier developer and provider of handheld software products. With large selections in the Newton and Palm OS markets, and an increasing number of Windows Mobile products, Stand Alone is well respected in the handheld user community.
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