Comments on: e-sistant Hopes to Revolutionize e-Commerce

Action Engine, a 1-year-old start-up, is getting ready to release e-sistant, a wireless e-commerce app. When a user makes a transaction, e-sistant handles most of it offline, connecting to the Internet only to download prices and upload what was purchased. This speeds up the process when wireless bandwidth is limited.

In order for e-sistant to work, it will have to be modified for each vendor. For example, for users to purchase tickets from a certain airline, a version of e-sistant will have to be written to access that airline's computer system.

 Say, haven't I seen this somewhere before...

PalmPlan @ 2/27/2001 9:56:07 AM #

The whole thing sounds very cool, but wasn't that shown during Palmsource? Isn't Palm planning something similar on it's own as well?
For what it's worth, this will be great since it is a cross-platform thing. At least someone is trying to create some unity here... well, at least until they get bought up by Microsoft... sad...