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Inside Qvadis
Qvadis provides industry-leading software for mobile professionals and enterprises.
Its Palm software solutions include the award-winning
Express Reader and publisher applications,
the Ex Libris online archive and Editio-Books digital publishing services,
Lexica language references, and Envoyage city guides.
Qvadis also develops enterprise and custom volume handheld computing solutions with
partners in the mobile and wireless industries.
Express Reader is Qvadis' award-winning desktop publisher and palmtop
ebook reader suite, which has won numerous Editor's Choice awards in industry
magazines and on the Web.
Qvadis' Ex Libris online resources deliver original and partner-based content
for use with Express Reader, including 10,000+ titles through its epublishing partners.
In 2000, Qvadis acquired Editio-Books.com, a leading digital publisher of quality fiction
and nonfiction for Palm powered devices.
Lexica is a powerful reference viewer and multilingual dictionary system,
allowing fast search and translation between English and French, German, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese and more.
The Lexica system will eventually include an English dictionary, thesaurus, phrase books,
glossaries, and other reference material.
Envoyage is a versatile city guides program, providing information on hotels, restaurants, nightlife, sightseeing, special events, sports and leisure, and transport. The initial destination guides include Toronto, Vancouver, Montreal, Ottawa, and Calgary.
The Envoyage system will eventually include guides for cities across North America, Europe, Asia, and elsewhere.
Artisan, due for release, is a paint and drawing program for Palm powered handhelds,
grayscale and color support with an available palette of 256 colors, variable pen widths,
ability to beam drawings, and the attention to usability
that Qvadis has become acclaimed for.
Qvadis is a privately-held company, founded in 1998,
to provide for personal and
enterprise solutions in the new mobile handheld computing environment.
The company's first product, Express Reader Pro, began shipping in December 1999.
Express Reader extends the industry-standard Palm Doc format for large-text handling,
providing an easy way to convert standard desktop documents to Palm format
and then to publish them to the palmtop.
Express Reader has quickly become a popular product line,
with hundreds of thousands of downloads worldwide since its debut.
Express Reader has been designated a Hot Product by Yahoo! Mobile;
an Editor's Pick by CNET Downloads;
a top-rated application at Handango, PalmGear and Tucows;
and garnered a five-star Reviewers' Pick rating from ZDNet, which called Express Reader Pro
"One cool package...A fantastic all-in-one PC and Palm document reader...You can't get
much better than Express Reader Pro." Three versions of Express Reader (GT, DX and Pro)
were at one time simultaneously on the Top 10 Weekly Downloads at Lycos for Palm
document applications.
In May 2000, Qvadis and its partners re-launched the Qvadis Library, which
has grown to be the largest Palm Doc resource on the Web, with over 6,000 free titles.
Further partnerships enabled Qvadis to offer over 4,000 contemporary ebooks for sale,
an InterLibrary archive referencing other Express Reader-compatible collections,
and the popular eBook-of-the-Month feature.
In December 2000, Qvadis acquired leading digital publisher Editio-Books.com,
and became itself an epublisher. Qvadis launched a free version of its ebook reader
in March 2001, making its popular handheld reader freely available
to millions of Palm device users.
In May 2002, Qvadis was invited to present the Palm development track at Planet PDA Boston.
At that time it debuted Qvadis Lexica, including handheld dictionaries and reference
materials for translation between English and Spanish, French, German, Italian and Portuguese. Lexica quickly became one of the most popular downloads, with its dictionaries at one time holding five out of the top ten downloads on Palm.com's Documents and Add-ins list, and winning numerous editor's choice awards.
In October 2002, a beta of Qvadis Artisan debuted at a meeting of the Canada Palm User Group, and in February 2003, a beta of what would become Qvadis Envoyage was demonstrated.
In November 2002, Qvadis was awarded the first Innovative Technology Achievement Award by the Digital Literature Institute, in recognition of its technical contributions to electronic publishing.
In March 2003, Qvadis formally launched Envoyage, a versatile city guides package, with an initial suite of Toronto, Vancouver, Montreal, Ottawa and Calgary.
Qvadis Envoyage was selected by Palm Inc. and Air Canada as the
premier city guides program for their Beam & Fly kiosks, which provide air travellers
with software downloadable from beaming stations located in airport lounges across the continent.
Along with travel, flight and local news, Envoyage city guides have been beamed
from airport stations to thousands of users since its launch.
In addition to producing its award-winning Palm software titles,
Qvadis works with other leaders in the handheld industry
to extend the capabilities and distribution of Qvadis products and services.
Qvadis is a key partner of the Palm Solutions Goup and and PalmSource;
in addition, it has an affiliation and strategic distribution alliance with Handango -
the Internet's largest Palm software archive and provider to the Yahoo! Mobile Channel
and other Internet portals;
a software development partnership with PalmGear - the one-stop source for Palm add-ons;
an association with MemoWare - one of the Internet's largest repository of Palm documents;
and with Fictionwise - the leading independent Palm digital publisher and ebook source.
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