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To: Ahda who wrote (23374)	6/27/2000 6:39:00 PM
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Excite@Home Announces Excite Mobile Portal on Palm Handhelds (I really like this kind of news!) biz.yahoo.com >>...Excite Mobile will ship with various future Palm handheld computers, as one of their in-box content providers. The application showcases Excite's uniquely personalizable and location-based services, taking advantage of the Palm.Net© service's ability to deliver the handheld's current location by providing real-time, local content such as movie show times and weather forecasts. ``Personalization is the key element to a valuable user experience in the mobile environment, given the vastness of the Web and the restrictions of mobile Internet access,'' said Rob Wilen, senior director and group manager for Wireless at Excite@Home. ``Our history and focus on personalization enables us to deliver the information a user is most interested in and put it at their fingertips. This agreement enables our base of 51 million registered users to leverage the combined resources and services of Palm and Excite.''... >>...The wireless medium is an extension of Excite@Home's broadband strategy to bring personalized content to its users anytime, anywhere and on any device. Users of Excite Mobile can take advantage of: 1. Excite Inbox: Users can read, write, file and delete messages using their Excite Inbox e-mail account and create messages from their address book in Excite Planner. 2. Entertainment: includes location-based movie listings. 3. Money: includes 'My Portfolio,' and stock quotes. 4. News: includes the user's personal 'My News' topics, plus top stories, technology news and business, sports and 'oddly enough' news. 5. Weather: Individuals can access 'My Weather' and find weather by zip code, city and state. 6. Sports: includes 'My Sports,' which can include baseball, golf, hockey, college and pro basketball, motor racing, soccer and tennis scores and results. 7. Directions: Individuals can pull up locations by address to access commonly used locations to use as start or end points. As part of the agreement, Excite@Home will promote the Excite Mobile application and Palm handhelds on the Excite network....<<