2nd April 1996, London - Mobile Software today announced the release of What PC? Pages, giving Psion 3a owners the ability to search for information on over 3,000 products consisting of computer hardware, software and peripherals.
The product combines What PC? magazine's extensive Buyers Guide database with Mobile Software's powerful database search software and will be available free on the cover CD-ROM of What PC? magazine, available from newsagents from mid-April. Every edition of the magazine will include new sections of the Buyers Guide, and updated versions of previously published ones.
Users will be able to search on, say, "All Desktop PCs in the price range £1,500 to £2,000, with a Pentium processor and 2 serial ports" or "All monochrome, A4 laser printers, in the price range £500 to £750, with Postscript emulation built in". All database entries contain a wealth of information that should help users make buying decisions.
"The plethora of PC magazines on the market, which individually contain a vast amount of information on computer hardware and software products, often make buying a product extremely time-consuming and often stressful. Allowing users to query a database against their personal criteria, thereby allowing rapid product identification, should simplify what should be, a simple task."
...... commented Stuart Ballan, Managing Director of Mobile Software.
In addition to including What PC? Pages, the magazine's cover CD-ROM will include demonstration versions of Expotel Pages and Transmedia Pages, Mobile Software's hotel and restaurant related products, respectively. Demonstration versions of What PC? Pages are available from Mobile Software's Web Pages, from the CompuServe Palmtop A forum and from the CIX mobile_pages conference.
Mobile Software develop, market and support generic database related products for the Psion Series 3a pocket computer. Their flagship Mobile Pages product can import appropriate information from virtually any corporate system and produce a compressed, relational database for access on the Psion Series 3a by their powerful and flexible Pages Viewer software.
What PC magazine is published by VNU Business Publications and has an audited distribution in excess of 50,000 copies per month.
Mobile Software Ltd, PO Box 3369, London, NW7 3EN
Tel : +44(0) 181-906-0002
Email : sballan@cix.compulink.co.uk
Web : http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/mobile_pages
Mick Andon, Editor, What PC?
Tel : +44(0) 171-316-9000
Email : andon@cix.compulink.co.uk