TCS Announces New BlackBerry Financial Service

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TeleCommunication Systems, a wireless financial market data provider based in Annapolis, Thursday announced a financial data streaming service for BlackBerry devices called marketStream.

Alexis Davis, vice president of Mobile Finance for TCS, said the launch was timed “to coincide with the announcement of the shutdown of the O2 pager network in Europe scheduled for December 2004.”

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The Java-based application provides global access to equity prices and volume, foreign exchange rates, futures, commodities and fixed income prices from more than 30 different financial markets, as well as news and charts.

You can catch the companys press release on Marketwire.com

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