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To: Voltaire who wrote (7497)	3/14/2000 8:46:00 PM
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QCOM-Wireless Knowledge Zagat.com Available on Mobile Phones Wireless Knowledge Builds Wireless Internet Demo for Show PR NEWSWIRE - March 14, 2000 14:26 NEW YORK, Mar 14, 2000 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- Zagat Survey offered a glimpse of the future of data-enabled cell phones when it demonstrated its Zagat.com restaurant guide application in the Microsoft and Ericsson booths at the CTIA Wireless 2000 convention last week in New Orleans. Working with Wireless Knowledge, Inc., Zagat developed an interface accessible to a wide variety of mobile devices including those with Microsoft Mobile Explorer browsers. Zagat Survey will soon offer restaurant, hotel and travel content for mobile devices, such as cell phones, PDAs and pagers in the belief that such content represents a killer app on mobile devices. Using Zagat's branded, distinctively-edited ratings and reviews, consumers and business travelers will be able to identify restaurants by proximity, ratings and a host of special features and then make electronic reservations directly from their data-enabled devices. "The team at Wireless Knowledge helped make us a big hit at the Conference," said Tim Zagat, Co-Founder and Co-Chair of Zagat Survey. "We plan to make our content available on as many platforms as possible. Wireless Knowledge is providing us with instrumental support in developing our wireless Internet application." "Wireless Knowledge believes business users are going to drive wireless data penetration, and zagat.com's restaurant and hotel guides represent the type of content that mobile business users need," said Greg Richardson, Vice President, Professional Services for Wireless Knowledge. "Wireless Knowledge, working with zagat.com, is going to deliver compelling content across a variety of wireless devices." Zagat.com has demonstrated an early commitment to the wireless space by being a charter content provider to NTT DoCoMo, Japan's largest ISP, which has 5 million I-Mode subscribers. Zagat.com also recently announced a partnership with Oracle's Portal-to-Go service to offer restaurant reviews to mobile users. Zagat.com is presently in discussions with major wireless companies interested in using its content as a lever to reduce customer acquisition costs; make the wireless data experience more compelling for the average consumer; and bring branded services to a new information and transactional platform. About Zagat Survey Zagat Survey is the premiere provider of survey based dining, lodging and leisure information. It offers content in book form, on the Internet at zagat.com, on Palm Pilot OS and on cell phones. Zagat Survey is a privately held corporation backed by General Atlantic Partners; Kleiner, Perkins; Allen & Co.; former Microsoft CTO Nathan Myhrvold; MIT Media Lab's Nicholas Negroponte; and Nancy Peretsman, a leading investment banker specializing in the media field. For more information, visit zagat.com. About Wireless Knowledge Wireless Knowledge LLC, a joint venture between Microsoft and QUALCOMM, provides platforms and services to corporate customers and application providers to enable applications for the mobile Internet. The company's products deliver productivity and compelling mobile solutions to business users, providing personally relevant, business-critical information and applications using any device, over any network or airlink. For more information on Wireless Knowledge, please visit the company Web site at wirelessknowledge.com.