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WirelessDevNet.com Press Release
AccuWeather Introduces AccuWeather.com eXpress at CTIA in Las Vegas
Las Vegas, Nevada -- AccuWeather, Inc., the world's leading commercial weather company, today launched AccuWeather.com eXpress, the first, colorful animated weather application for the wireless market. The new wireless product, announced today at the Cellular Telecommunications and Internet Association (CTIA) Trade Show in Las Vegas, NV (booth# 1221), provides wireless carriers with an innovative weather graphics application designed to attract new and existing users.
AccuWeather.com eXpress, based on BREW and SharpMotionART(tm) technology, delivers colorful, animated weather forecasts that move across a user's handset providing smart-looking graphic displays, which provide informative and accurate weather at a glance. AccuWeather.com's use of Sharp's BREW-based SharpMotionART technology allows for the development of full-scale animations while keeping file sizes small.
AccuWeather.com eXpress enhances the wireless experience by offering a refreshing, visually exciting weather presentation that provides users access to up-to-date current conditions, pinpoint 12-hour and detailed three-day forecasts, local radar and severe weather warnings, all animated on a user's screen. Designed with a unique, one-touch ease of use, AccuWeather.com eXpress forecasts will play in continuous loops, with no complex menus to navigate. For those subscribers interested in more detailed weather, radar images and severe weather notices, these are also available.
"With AccuWeather.com eXpress, we have brought the most advanced multi-media weather application to the wireless market," says Jim Candor, senior vice president of New Media, AccuWeather, Inc. "It's an informative and entertaining product that's powerful, but also easy to operate. Users don't have to do anything more than simply launch the application. The handset will automatically download the latest forecast."
He adds, "At AccuWeather, we are always looking for new ways to use cutting-edge technologies that will advance the wireless market. Our new AccuWeather.com eXpress delivers innovative and exciting applications for wireless customers."
To learn more about AccuWeather wireless products, visit http://wireless.accuweather.com or email wireless_sales@accuweather.com.
About AccuWeather and AccuWeather.com
AccuWeather, The World's Weather Authority, provides a portfolio of products and services through the airwaves, via the Internet, in print, and behind the scenes that benefit hundreds of millions of people worldwide. AccuWeather services 40,000 paying customers in media, business, government and institutions, and millions more through AccuWeather.com. AccuWeather also provides content onto more than 600 Internet sites including CNN Interactive, ABC owned and operated stations, The Associated Press, The Washington Post and The New York Times.
To speak with an AccuWeather meteorologist about breaking weather news, contact 814-235-8650.
For additional information on AccuWeather and AccuWeather.com, please contact Emily DiTomo or Tony Defazio at 610-642-8253.
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For more information:
AccuWeather, Inc.
385 Science Park Road State College, PA 16803
Contact: C.J. Arnold
(814) 235-8756
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