InfoSpace, AvantGo Deliver Web Content To Handhelds
(Newsbytes; 01/31/99)
HONG KONG, CHINA, 1999 JAN 31 (Newsbytes) -- By Staff Writer, IT Daily.
InfoSpace and mobile push content provider AvantGo have announced an agreement
to bring new "channels" of Web content for handheld computer users.
InfoSpace and AvantGo will deliver a wide variety of content offerings,
including business, entertainment, finance, national, world, technology, top
stories and sports news.
AvantGo software leverages Web technology so that companies can build,
deploy and manage mobile applications on handheld computers, such as those
based on
the Windows CE and Palm Computing platforms.
Using AvantGo, InfoSpace visitors can now get business, international and
technology news from the AP and UPI wire services, movie reviews and show
times, concert and event information, TV schedules, album previews and release
dates, market news and company profiles now and soon stock quotes and a
portfolio tracker, recaps covering major professional and collegiate sporting
events every time they synchronize their handheld devices.
Naveen Jain, chief executive officer (CEO) of InfoSpace, said, "We are
pleased to be working with AvantGo to supply the growing number of handheld
computer users with an array of InfoSpace content information that is
eminently useful to people on the go."
"We look forward to further extending and personalizing the handheld
experience in the months to come," said Felix Lin, CEO of AvantGo.
The AvantGo content partner program now includes more than 1,000 Channels,
in topics ranging from business and computer news to sports, weather and
lifestyle information.
Reported by Newsbytes News Network, newsbytes.com .
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