FluxNetwork Brings Wireless, Mobile Digital Experience to the 2002 Sundance Film Festival

FluxNetwork Teams Up With HP and Symbol to Provide a Mobile, Wireless Experience With Daily Updates of Short Films, Animations, Calendar Changes, News And Insights.

PARK CITY, UTAH – Jan. 10th - 20th, 2002 - FluxNetwork, Inc., a developer of rich media client-server applications for mobile and wireless devices, today announced an agreement with the Sundance Film Institute to provide a wireless mobile experience to VIPs attending The 2002 Sundance Film Festival, January 10 – 20, 2002. FluxNetwork has teamed up with Hewlett Packard and Symbol Technologies, Inc. as sponsors at the Festival’s Digital Center. Together, they are delivering a mobile, wireless rich media experience including calendar updates, film shorts, Flash animations, film trailers, news and insights, with the video content utilizing Microsoft’s Windows Media™ technology.

For the first time, through the agreement FluxNetwork has with The Sundance Institute, filmmakers, top executives and VIP members of the entertainment and media industries attending the festival will receive daily wireless updates through the convenience of a handheld portable PC that fits in a pocket. Previously, VIP attendees would have to page through a 300+ page bound catalog. Through this collaborative effort, VIP guests will receive an HP Jornada Pocket PC enabled by FluxNetwork’s patent-pending FluxShow Platform™ and utilizing the Symbol Wireless Networker™, a CompactFlash wireless card for Wi-Fi wireless networks.

"FluxNetwork has surpassed my expectations for quality and ease-of-use with their software solutions that supports a rich multimedia experience on a handheld", stated Ian Calderon, Director of Digital Initiatives at the Sundance Film Institute. "The ability to provide our VIP guests with the convenience of daily, video-enabled film, calendar and news updates while they walk around the Festival is invaluable". 

The 2002 Sundance Film Festival Mobile Digital Solution

The 2002 Sundance Film Festival takes place January 10th through the 20th, 2002. The festival will screen 113 feature films at various theater venues throughout Park City, Utah and receive over 20,000 visitors, including the film industry’s top executives, directors, producers, and press. Through the agreement with FluxNetwork, VIP guests will receive The 2002 Sundance Film Festival Mobile Digital Solution comprised of the following key components (download fact sheet in Microsoft Word Format here):

The HP Jornada PDA

HP is supplying 500 HP Jornada 568 Color personal digital assistants powered with Microsoft® PocketPC 2002 Premium Edition software. The HP Jornada PDA features a built-in CompactFlash Type I extended slot for memory cards and accessories, and removable/rechargeable 14-hour battery. Applications on the Jornada PDA include, Pocket Outlook, Pocket Word, Pocket Excel, MSN Messenger, Microsoft Reader 2.0, Terminal Services Client and Media Player 8.

The FluxShow Platform Software

FluxNetwork’s flagship product, the FluxShow Platform, is a flexible, patent-pending client-server software that provides support for wireless technology and leading industry standards for the delivery of rich media content (MPEG-1 & 4, Flash animation, Windows Media, HTML, MP3 audio, 3D graphics and more) to a variety of handheld mobile devices. FluxNetwork empowers business enterprises, and consumer and business portals with the capability to seamlessly channel rich media content to their mobile workforce and/or customers. The FluxNetwork FluxMM Player™ is an easy to use, customizable client interface that will enable the viewing of rich media festival content with support for 802.11b (Wi-Fi) wireless technology in a portrait or landscape mode. For more information go to: www.fluxnetwork.com.

The Symbol Wireless Network

Symbol Technologies, Inc. is installing five wireless “hot-spots” with its WiFi-certified Spectrum24 High Rate Access Points and providing its Wireless Networker™, a CompactFlash wireless card, to HP Jornada Pocket PC users. The Wireless Networker gives wireless Internet access to Pocket PCs. The Symbol WiFi wireless network is being set-up at the 2002 Sundance Film Festival to exclusively deliver film festival-related content and updates within the wireless “hot-spot” areas.

About FluxNetwork, Inc.

FluxNetwork, Inc., is a developer of rich media applications pioneering new breeds of entertainment and enterprise solutions for a variety of emerging mobile and wireless platforms including PocketPC™ and BREW™. With support for XML and SOAP Web services standards, and a sharp focus on creating a user-friendly experience, FluxNetwork solutions are crafted to meet the needs of business enterprises, consumer and business portals and broadband service providers including Internet service providers, wireless Internet service providers, telecommunications carriers and cable/satellite operators. FluxNetwork’s solutions have been designed from a global perspective to easily accommodate different languages and localization requirements.

Contact Information:
Theresa Pulido
FluxNetwork
408-532-1330
theresa@palettecom.com