ROAM Part of Sprint's Professional Developer Program
Sprint Launches Professional Developer Program
by Nick Marshall
cellfanatic.com - November 19, 2008
Sprint announced today that CellTrak Technologies Inc. was the first
member of Sprint’s Professional Developer Program (PDP) to receive
Sprint certification of its application, CellTrak(TM). CellTrak enables
home care and hospice providers to schedule their visits and be able to
locate staff as they travel from home to home using GPS technology,
which improves patient satisfaction, reduces errors and enables
accurate reporting of visit data, mileage and more. Using access to
location-based services and technology support provided through the
Sprint PDP, CellTrak ported their application from Nextel phones to
Sprint phones to meet the needs of their growing customer base.
“With the Professional Developer Program, Sprint is
offering serious developers enhanced tools to encourage them to create
new content for Sprint devices, be able to move quickly from ideation
to final product, and ensure the quality of those applications for our
customers,” said Len Barlik, vice president of wireless
and wireline services for Sprint. “We’re seeing those tools pay off as
several PDP members have received certification to offer their
applications to Sprint customers, just a few months after the launch of
the program.”
“CellTrak was honored to be the first application to pass the Sprint
Professional Developer Program’s on-boarding process,” said Steve
Wegner, chief technology officer for CellTrak Technologies. “The PDP is
a must for any company that is serious about delivering a quality
product on the Sprint network.”
Eleven additional PDP members also have completed certification of their applications:
- Acuity Mobile received Sprint certification for
its application, which offers businesses a context-based mobile
marketing solution that enables Spot Relevance(TM), sophisticated
content targeting based on consumer or loyalty program data and user
location.The solution provides the ability to create Spot Relevant
content and promotional offers that are distributed through an
application, text message or WAP site.
- Blue Systems received Sprint certification for
blue mobile(TM), a real-time financial market data application that
provides professional and retail investors with one of the fastest,
smartest ways to analyze global stock market information around the
clock. blue mobile(TM) provides more content and coverage, over more
handsets than any other provider worldwide.
- ChaCha received Sprint certification for its
application, which is a revolutionary new free mobile answers service
for people on the go. ChaCha allows people to ask any question in
conversational English and receive an answer as a text message in a few
minutes. ChaCha is available by calling 1-800-2ChaCha or by texting
242242 (ChaCha) (standard text messaging rates apply).
- Citrix Systems Inc. received certification for its
XenApp Plugin for Windows Mobile devices. With more than 100 million
users and 99 percent of the Fortune Global 500 as customers, Citrix(R)
XenApp(TM) is the industry’s de facto standard for delivering
Windows-based applications with some of the best performance, security
and cost savings.
- MobiWatch received Sprint certification for its
personal safety services. Users who need assistance can press the
button on the revolutionary Bluetooth
MobiFob to speak with professional emergency responders. They’ll use
the customer’s confidential personal profile and real-time location
tracking to get the user the help they need. MobiWatch is inexpensive,
works with most Sprint phones and requires no software downloads.
- Oomble received Sprint certification for its mobile client, which interacts with the Oomble Web site
to provide users a real-time view into the content that resides on
their mobile phones. Through the Oomble Web site, users are able to
manage that content, such as uploading mobile photos to the Web or
downloading personal music to the handset, without ever touching the
phone.
- ROAM Data received Sprint certification for
ROAMcommerce, which allows direct selling professionals to enter
orders, perform inventory lookup, check commission status and process
payment (credit cards and personal checks) — all in real time and
directly from their mobile phones.
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