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Everypath flags off wireless operations

Our Bureau

HYDERABAD, Aug. 10

EVERYPATH, the US-based leading wireless application service provider (ASP), kicked off its Indian operations here on Thursday.

The service is targeted at attracting wireless information technology and mobile technology experts as well as large and mid-sized businesses interested in developing wireless services for their customers.

Speaking to newspersons, Everypath India's Managing Director, Mr. Divakar Tantravahi, said that the company's India Development Centre intends to create a Silicon Valley start-up culture in Hyderabad, with the opportunity to work with cutting-edge techno logy and generous stock options.

``Given the increase in e-business and wireless applications markets in India, Everypath India is also exploring the possibility of servicing domestic clients.''

The Everypath co-founder and Chief Technology Officer, Mr. Prakash Iyer, said that wireless commerce was going to be lot bigger than the wired world today.

``With a combination of technology and people, Everypath offers a total solution for businesses to deliver robust and scalable wireless applications and content to its customers.''

It was listed as one of the `Best of the Web B2B' Indian-American companies by Forbes Magazine during this month.

Everypath was also winner of the prestigious Smithsonian-ComputerWorld award and was nominated by Technologic Partners as `Investors' Choice'.

Everypath has unveiled more than 30 new wireless Web sites which includes leading brand names such as E*TRADE, Egghead, Paytrust and Salesforce.com.

The company has also forged strategic partnerships with industry leaders such as Engage, Ericsson, Hewlett Packard, Sybase, Sun and Tantau.

Everypath enables corporations and commercial Web sites to mobilise their existing Web assets to an array of wireless devices such as Internet-ready cell phones, Palm handhelds and two-way pagers without programming.

Mr. Iyer said, ``Everypath's unique patent pending technology can also translate databases and Web sites so that they can be accessed with voice commands from ordinary wired or cellular phones.''

He added: ``This is particularly advantageous as a way to bridge the `digital divide' and deliver the Internet to all of the world's people, even those who do not own a personal computer.''

Established last November, Everypath India has spent over $1 million on its India Development Centre.

Everypath has invested a total of $64 millions in its global operations spread across the US, Germany, UK and India till date.

The state-of-the-art research and development centre located at Hyderabad extends Everypath's Santa Clara engineering division to maintain the company's technological leadership, Mr. Iyer said.

According to him, the company's approach, called `Intelligent Rendering', is based on a unique software solution that allows selected HTML or XML content from any Web site to be converted simply, inexpensively and quickly so that it can be delivered to a ny portable device.