HUGE NEWS.
(NETD) AuctionAnything.com Teams With Datalink.net to Wirelessly Enable Auctions; Auction Enthusiasts to Receive Alerts to Their Existing Pager, PCS phone or PDA
(NETD) AuctionAnything.com Teams With Datalink.net to Wirelessly Enable
Auctions; Auction Enthusiasts to Receive Alerts to Their Existing
Pager, PCS phone or PDA
ORLANDO, Fla., Jul 27, 1999 (BUSINESS WIRE via COMTEX) --
AuctionAnything.com, Inc. (OTC BB: UBUY) announced today that it has
teamed with Datalink.net (OTC BB: NETD), a world leader in
Web-to-Wireless convergence, to offer wireless notification services to
participants in AuctionAnything.com's family of Internet auctions.
Datalink.net will provide the wireless gateway that will enable program
participants to be notified by pager, PCS phone or PDA when an auction
event is triggered.
"We are thrilled to partner with Datalink.net and believe that our
combined capabilities offer auction enthusiasts an innovative and
intelligent mechanism to be alerted to bidding opportunities," stated
Martin M. Meads, AuctionAnything.com spokesperson. "We share
Datalink.net's vision that wireless enabling technology provides
significant incremental value to most e-commerce venues."
"Datalink.net is pleased to offer participants in the
AuctionAnything.com family the flexibility and convenience of
Web-to-Wireless convergence," said Pamela LaPine, Datalink.net VP of
Marketing. "Through this unique partnership, items of interest are made
available to each participant through the communications tool that is
most convenient to them."
As an example of how the program works, an avid Wayne Gretzky
SportsAuction enthusiast could be wirelessly notified when an
autographed 8x10 photo of "The Great One" is offered in SportsAuction's
(www.SportsAuction.com) 2 hour nightly AuctionEXPRESS. Wireless
notification enables auction participants to be aware of opportunities
regardless of whether they are at their computer or not.
This week, Datalink.net will install its web-to-wireless auction
engine, announced earlier this year, for integration with the
AuctionAnything.com database. AuctionAnything.com anticipates the
launch of wireless services to take place in September of this year.
About AuctionAnything.com
AuctionAnything.com is building a family of related but distinct
Internet auction sites designed around specific "micro-community"
themes. The sites include a series of Auction Business Solutions (such
as www.StogiesAuction.com), which are internally hosted systems
designed to empower business owners with an e-commerce auction engine,
and a series of person-to-person auction sites (such as
Collectibles.AuctionAnything.com) for community trading. All members of
the AuctionAnything.com auction family share a common customer database
(and user registration) enabling cross-marketing opportunities for both
business and personal customers.
Datalink.net -- Where the Web Meets Wireless(TM)
Datalink.net is the world leader in Web to Wireless convergence with
a suite of products and services for both the enterprise customer and
the consumer. The Enterprise Business Group wirelessly enables Internet
sites and e-commerce applications through the company's patented
Xpresslink(TM) Platform, while the Consumer Products Group provides
custom and tailored information to the wireless user.
Datalink.net develops products with mass market appeal and e-commerce
applications. Datalink.net is rated the number one service of its kind
by SmartMoney magazine. The company is headquartered in Silicon Valley,
California and its services are marketed through Datalink.net's
e-commerce Web site at datalink.net.
This release contains forward-looking statements with the meaning of
the Securities Act of 1933 and the Securities Exchange Act of 1934.
Although the Company believes that the expectations reflected in the
forward-looking statements and assumptions upon which forward-looking
statements are based are reasonable it can give no assurance that such
expectations and assumptions will prove to have been correct.
Copyright (C) 1999 Business Wire. All rights reserved.
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CONTACT: AuctionAnything.com, Inc.
Martin M. Meads, Investor Relations, 407/481-2140
marty@auctionanything.com
auctionanything.com
or
Datalink.net, San Jose
Pamela LaPine, VP, Marketing, 408/367-1707
pamela@datalink.net
datalink.net
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