Advanced Resources Partners Unveils Real Estate Software for the Sony Magic Link Personal Communicator
NEW YORK — September 28, 1994 — Advanced Resources Partners Wednesday announced the availability of Mobile MLS software for the Sony Magic Link personal communicator.
Mobile MLS was introduced today in New York in conjunction with the launch of Sony's Magic Link communicator. Mobile MLS is the first professional application for personal communicators using the Magic Cap software environment from General Magic Inc.
Mobile MLS provides intelligent, portable access to property information from Multiple Listing Services (MLS) to the more than one million active real estate agents. Mobile MLS enables real estate agents to selectively retrieve property listings and allows downloading of records for storage and use on the Sony Magic Link personal communicator.
Property listings downloaded to a Magic Link unit can be retrieved, used, stored in an internal database or filed in a client folder. When used with the built-in scheduling, contact management, information storage, mortgage finance and calculator functions, Mobile MLS on the Magic Link personal communicator becomes a completely portable, self-contained system for gathering, organizing and using real estate information.
The underlying technologies of Magic Cap and Telescript in the Magic Link personal communicator use the power of intelligent software agents for personal information management and communication. Mobile MLS extends the reach of these technologies to meeting the specific needs of real estate professionals.
"Together, the Magic Link unit and Mobile MLS put powerful information management and communications capabilities into the hands of real estate agents," said Gary Connor, operating partner of Advanced Resources Partners. "Mobile MLS on a personal communicator gives a real estate agent an immediate competitive advantage and will provide longer-range benefits as technologies converge.
"We see Mobile MLS as an important first step in an evolutionary process of simplifying the real estate agent's information management and communications needs."
"Mobile MLS allows agents to work wherever they want and whenever they want — with up-to-date information," said Michael P. Zagaris, president of Paul M. Zagaris Inc., Realtor and real estate market advisor.
"Real Estate agents are most productive when they are in the field. With Mobile MLS and a personal communicator, agents no longer need to be in the office; the office will be with the agent. It's that simple."
Today, real estate agents must choose between periodically published property listings that, while portable, are out of date and difficult to use, and up-to-date information that is available on desktop computer systems but can only be accessed at fixed locations. Mobile MLS enables a real estate agent to selectively access MLS information at any time, from any location.
Mobile Products Inc. distributes Mobile MLS and the Magic Link personal communicator are available to real estate agents for less than $50 per month through a purchase plan based on a price of $1275 for the hardware and software.
Advanced Resources Partners creates professional software applications based on General Magic Inc.'s Magic Cap and Telescript technologies. One of the original General Magic development partners, Advanced Resources is the only General Magic developer focused solely on complementary software for specific professional applications.
CONTACT:
Advanced Resources
Gary Connor, 209/549-2875
Strategic Ink (media contact)
Susan Spencer, 415/775-3334