[April 21, 2000]

Main Course Technologies Uses Internet To Display Timely Tracking Of People Or Belongings On Handheld Devices

Main Course Technologies, a developer of wireless applications utilizing Global Positioning Satellite (GPS) technology for display on the Web, has joined the Phone.com Alliance Program as a developer of online tracking services.

This alliance facilitates the ongoing integration of Internet and wireless technology. Using their mobile phone's built-in UP.Browser microbrowser from Phone.com, Main Course Technologies provides subscribers the ability to pin-point the location of fleet vehicles, family members, or other assets or belongings, from their mobile phones, or other handheld devices.

Main Course Technologies (MCT) utilizes Global Positioning Satellite technology to locate a person, vehicle or other asset, and then displays the location on detailed street maps via the Internet on its www.mctworldwide.com site.

"We look forward to working closely with Phone.com to continue the roll-out of our new application. This will facilitate peace of mind, increase efficiency and generate cost savings," said Pat Coggins, chief architect of Main Course Technologies.

"Main Course Technologies has the only open-architecture tracking system which supports all wireless devices -- including the Sprint Browserphone; the Alcatel Browserphone; RIM's Blackberry, Series 850 and Series 950 interactive pagers; Qualcomm-Kyocera's pdQ smartphone, and many others. MCT enables service for them all via Phone.com's unique microbrowser interface that links mobile phone users to the Internet or corporate Intranets."

Main Course Technologies plans to integrate its MCTWorldwide.com Tracking Service with Phone.com's interactive UP.Browser software to deliver enhanced applications for mobile phones. Using Main Course Technologies' new application, mobile phone users will have the ability to verify the location of any tracked device virtually anywhere on the face of the globe.

The Phone.com Alliance Program has two aims: to promote the concept of wireless information access, and to coordinate the exchange of ideas and information among Alliances Program members, other companies developing wireless Internet products and services, and Phone.com's network operators.

Main Course Technologies joins a growing list of alliance providers that includes content providers, application developers, tools providers and systems integrators using the Phone.com Product Family.

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