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May 6, 2003
Flowfinity Wireless and Infinite Peripherals Partner to Enable Printing and Card Scanning for BlackBerry® Handhelds
New Partnership Enables Printing and Card Scanning From Wireless Applications
New Orleans, LA - Flowfinity Wireless, a leading provider of wireless application products and platforms, and Infinite Peripherals, a leading provider of custom receipt printing solutions, announced today a partnership to enable printing and card scanning from within Flowfinity's wireless business application products and platforms. This partnership will enable transactional Field Force solutions using BlackBerry Wireless Handhelds™ from Research In Motion (RIM) (NASDAQ: RIMM); (TSX: RIM).
"Our business applications for enterprise Field Forces often have needs for special kinds of input and output," said Dr. Hendrik Rosenboom, Vice President, Flowfinity Europe. "These printers and scanners are very important value-added capabilities that we can provide to our customers and partners."
Applications made possible by this partnership include Retail Point-Of-Sale Receipts, Inspection Validation/Violation Receipts, Parking Violation Tickets, Tradeshow Lead Tracking, Security Access Control Validation, Delivery Receipts, and Event Ticketing.
"We are excited to see our peripherals connected into such powerful products and platforms that fully utilize the wireless capabilities of BlackBerry Wireless Handhelds," said Jeff Scott, director of marketing and sales for Infinite Peripherals. "Our partnership will leverage Flowfinity's products and platforms as well as their global network of partners."
Flowfinity and Infinite Peripherals are demonstrating the combined solution this week at the Wireless Enterprise Symposium in New Orleans. Attendees at this conference can have their conference badge scanned, the form data submitted over the wireless networks, observe their contact information automatically stored in Microsoft's CRM, and have a coupon printed at the end of the process.
"We see great customer demand for combining wireless business applications with these peripherals," said Cesare Navarotto, Manager Mobile Office Services, Wireless Solutions SpA in Italy. "Having the transactional capabilities of scanning cards and printing receipts while being mobile has many powerful business cases."
Flowfinity products and platforms are available for BlackBerry Wireless Handhelds running on the following global networks: AT&T Wireless, Bell Mobility, Cingular Wireless, Hutchison, Nextel, O2, Rogers AT&T Wireless, Telstra, TELUS Mobility , TIM, T-Mobile, Verizon Wireless, and Vodafone.
Infinite Peripherals products are available in Europe and North America.
About Infinite Peripherals
Infinite Peripherals was founded in 1993 as a source for receipt printers for the Point of Sale market. Seizing upon opportunities to sell into other markets, Infinite Peripherals now supplies printers, mechanisms, and other receipt printer-related components to customers in the following markets: Gaming, Medical, Hospitality, ATM, Retail, Amusement, Security, Time and Attendance, and Industrial Measurement. Information about Infinite Peripherals can be found at www.ipcprint.com.
About Flowfinity Wireless
Flowfinity Wireless is a provider of products and platforms for business applications used by enterprise Field Forces. Flowfinity solutions operate both online and offline without requiring on-device coding and feature a multi-tasking, server-driven user interface, made possible by its unique patent-pending Thinflow technology. Flowfinity is technology partners with Research In Motion (RIM), Microsoft, Borland, Sun and IBM. Today, Flowfinity has a growing base of customers and partners in the United States, Canada, Australia and Europe. Flowfinity Wireless can be reached at flowfinity.com.
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