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Surya Jayaweera is an American entrepreneur, inventor, and angel investor. He is also the developer of PocketGenie, an embedded wireless application developed for two-way pagers. He has two patents issues by United States Patent and Trademark Office for his inventions. Surya attended Harvey Mudd College and received his B.S. degree in Engineering in 1996. Not long after graduating college, while sitting at a park reading a Popular Science article about Motorola’s new PageWriter, Jayaweera developed an idea for a breakthrough software application that would allow consumers to visit websites wirelessly, using a 2-way pager. Jayaweera pitched the idea directly to Motorola during COMDEX, a computer trade show. In early 1997, while at Motorola’s headquarters in Florida, a deal was made which led to the foundation of WolfeTech Development Corporation. Jayaweera’s software would later be known as PocketGenie, which granted consumers access to a collection of pre-set informational services such as flight times, weather conditions, movie times, among others. PocketGenie was officially launched in 1998 and made commercially available for the Motorola PageWriter 2000 and Research In Motion (BlackBerry) devices. In 2003, WolfeTech was named one of California’s top three software developing companies of the year.[25] Surya grew WolfeTech to a value of $85 million while simultaneously employing over 50 people. To grow and expand WolfeTech, Jayaweera formed partnerships with companies such as The Weather Channel, Movielink, NewsAlert, ActiveDiner, Lucent Technologies Inc., Nettech Systems, SatCon Communications Europa, WebLink Wireless, Premiere 1 Wireless, SkyTel and Motient. Surya also developed an HTML-based web browser called Pi (Pocket Internet). At that time, wireless devices used Wireless Application Protocol to access the internet as opposed to the traditional Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP), which computers used. Since all websites were built in Hypertext Markup Language, HTTP was the standard method to access them. The downside was that devices using WAP could only access websites that supported it, and at the time, only about 5 to 10 percent of websites did; so browsing options were limited. However, because Pi was an HTML-based browser, it did not have the same limitation. This allowed the user to browse any website, just like on a computer.

Though PocketGenie was the flagship product of WolfeTech, there were others as well. These included Pi, Sigma, an enterprise application server that enabled companies to create their own secure apps for employees to use and WolfeStock, a real-time stock tracker.

In 2005, Surya launched a second tech startup, GXB Interactive, which developed interactive learning games for Nintendo’s handheld gaming consoles, Game Boy Advance and Nintendo DS. Surya formed a partnership with Tomy Company and together they brought the games to market. The most notable releases were two games for Nintendo’s Game Boy Advance, Math Patrol - The Kleptoid Threat (2007) and Word Safari: The Friendship Totem (2007). GXB’s most recent project, MIDI Piano Teacher MusicMaster, was an app released for Android in 2015.