RadioQuotes Enables Wireless Access to the Street
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With more individuals investing either directly or indirectly in securities markets, interest in accurate and up-to-date stock information is no longer restricted to fund managers or the financial elite. Coupled with the increased mobility of many people, wireless stock quote and portfolio management is an attractive option.
RadioMail, the nation-wide provider of two-way wireless data and messaging capability, announced a new service intended to provide just this type of time-critical information. Dubbed RadioQuote, the service enables a person to track any of the 20,000 stocks on the New York, American, and NASDAQ stock exchanges, in addition to mutual funds, futures and commodities. RadioQuote will deliver up to one hundred on-demand stock quotes per day, and can signal price fluctuations including high/low trigger points by means of a wireless notification to the subscriber’s communicator.
RadioMail currently offers its services over the RAM Mobile Data and ARDIS wireless networks. In the future, the company also plans to employ the ever-expanding CDPD network. RadioMail supports a growing range of environments, and can be accessed from Windows and Macintosh-based laptops, HP palmtops such as the LX 100 and 200, and Motorola’s Envoy and Marco personal communicators.
The service is priced at $9.95 per month with a subscription to RadioMail. The company notes that a subscriber to nation-wide Internet email, peer-to-peer messaging, paging, faxing, and headline news can pay as little as $39 per month, comparing favorably with nation-wide paging services.
RadioMail Corp.
2600 Campus Drive
San Mateo, CA 94403
(415) 286-7800
(800) 597-6245 (Sales Info)
[email protected]
Transcribed from Pen-Based Computing, Volume 5, Number 3 — March 1995. Page 6.