Handmark

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Handmark
Type	Private
Genre	Developer and distributor of mobile phone and pda content
Founded	2000
Founder	August Grasis III
Headquarters	Kansas City, Missouri, United States
Key people	Paul Reddick (CEO)
Products	Pocket Express
Employees	90 (2007)
Website	handmark.com

Handmark is a developer and distributor of mobile content. The company was created in 2000^[1] by the merger of Mobile Generation Software ^[2] with Palmspring Software.

The company's original intention was to sell software for the Palm Operating System^[3], but their scope has since expanded to include Windows Mobile^[4], Java^[5], and other mobile computing, smartphone and mobile phone platforms.

The company’s Pocket Express wireless service offers users access to news, reference and infotainment content on mobile phones, BlackBerry, Palm Treo and Windows Mobile wireless handhelds^[6]]. In addition to the Pocket Express wireless service bundle, Handmark distributes a number of wireless entertainment titles including Warfare Incorporated (RTS) (Palmsource Powered Up award Winner.^[7])

The world headquarters is in the 909 Walnut Tower in Kansas City, Missouri

January 7, 2008 12.00 GMT - Handmark and Astraware have announced a new business relationship in which Astraware will become part of the Handmark family. Through the new relationship, Astraware will expand its existing UK games development studio to develop new high profile licenses as well as continuing work on original titles. In addition to Palm OS(R) and Windows Mobile(R), Astraware will release their first titles for Symbian(R) S60(R) and UIQ(R) in the first quarter of 2008, and will add games for BlackBerry(R) devices later in the year.