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GERMAN UNIVERSITY RESEARCH GROUP ADOPTS ROCOCO'S BLUEVARSITY PROGRAM
AMSTERDAM, Holland - June 14, 2002 - Rococo Software is pleased to announce
that a research group at Technical University Berlin (Technische Universitat
Berlin) has implemented Rococo Software's BlueVarsity University Education
Program as part of its Computer Science offering. BlueVarsity is a
full-service Bluetooth education package that provides training, development
tools, a support network and an awards program to universities building
Bluetooth education programs.
"My students and I work with Java and J2ME and are about implement an
information system that transfers information in mobile spontaneous networks
based on Bluetooth," said Thomas Schwotzer of the Intelligent Networks and
Management of Distributed Systems research group at TU Berlin. "BlueVarsity
is an ideal match for us because we're working on Palm with Palm OS.
Rococo's simulator and developer kit are some of the few tools on the market
that currently support JABWT on Palm."
Rococo CEO, Sean O'Sullivan, believes TU Berlin's SHARK (Shared Knowledge)
information system (http://ivs.tu-berlin.de/Projekte/Shark/) will benefit
from Rococo's BlueVarsity offering. "Setting-up a Bluetooth program is a
daunting and expensive prospect for universities," said Rococo Software CEO,
Sean O'Sullivan. "The BlueVarsity Package makes it easier and less costly to
teach students how to develop Bluetooth technology by packaging Rococo's
tried and tested Bluetooth application tools with relevant Bluetooth
training courses."
BlueVarsity Bluetooth Education Package includes:
- Bluetooth Training
- Bluetooth Demo Pack
- Impronto Simulator (runs Java apps in a simulated Bluetooth environment)
- Impronto Developer Kit (Bluetooth application development tool)
- BlueVarsity Network
- BlueVarsity Award Program
Dublin-based Rococo Software has also licensed BlueVarsity programs to
Trinity College, Dublin and Dublin City University. Declan O'Sullivan of
Trinity College's Knowledge & Data Engineering Research Group says,
"BlueVarsity allows students and research staff to develop Java applications
against a Bluetooth environment without investing in hardware, and in a way
that enables us to focus on applications rather than the infrastructure."
Rococo's BlueVarsity Package is discounted for qualified institutions and is
not available to commercial companies. For more information about Rococo's
BlueVarsity Bluetooth Education Package, visit
http://www.rococosoft.com/universities/index.html or email
bluevarsity@rococosoft.com.
About Rococo Software
Rococo Software (www.rococosoft.com) uses key industry standards to enable
fast, easy Bluetooth application development in Java. Rococo was a member of
the JSR-82 Expert Group, which developed standards for Java and Bluetooth
and is an associate member of the Bluetooth SIG. Rococo also chairs the
Irish Bluetooth Users Forum (www.ibuf.org).
Rococo Products
Rococo's Impronto Simulator runs Java applications in a simulated Bluetooth
environment allowing developers to test and configure applications before
deploying them on Bluetooth devices. Rococo's Impronto Developer Kit makes
creating wireless applications easy by hiding complex Bluetooth protocols
behind standard Java APIs. The Bluetooth Technology Licensing Kit (TLK) is a
comprehensive set of development tools and technologies that add
Java/Bluetooth capabilities to existing platforms. Rococo's experienced
developers also offer consulting services for creating Bluetooth
applications in Java and building Java applications for small, constrained
devices.
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