MovieFone, Inc. to Deliver Movie Showtimes and Tickets to New
Wirelessly Connected 3Com Palm VII Organizer
BW - 01:43 p.m Dec 02, 1998 Eastern
SANTA CLARA, Calif./NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec. 2, 1998--
MovieFone, Inc. (NASDAQ NM:MOFN), the nation's largest movie listing
guide and ticketing service, today announced plans to deliver movie
information to users of the Palm VII(TM) connected organizer, a
new wireless handheld computing product from Palm
Computing, a 3Com company.
The new Palm VII connected organizer, announced today at the
Palm Computing Platform Worldwide Developer Conference,
will provide fast, secure and easy out-of-the-box access to
personal, business and Internet information as well as a means
of instant two-way personal communications. The product will
enable users to quickly and easily obtain important information
from various Web sites remotely via a wireless connection to the
Internet. With mobile connectivity to MovieFone's web site,
Movielink.com, Palm VII device users will have access to the
latest movie information, including local showtimes and the
ability to purchase tickets.
Movielink.com offers up-to-the-minute showtimes for over
16,000 movie screens nationwide. Palm VII organizer users will
have the ability to search Movielink.com's database for local
listings by entering their zip code or selecting their location from
a list of cities. For many of the nation's highest-grossing
theaters, Palm VII product users will also be able to purchase
tickets in advance using a major credit card.
"MovieFone has always used innovative technology to make
moviegoing more convenient," said Andrew R. Jarecki,
MovieFone CEO. "While MovieFone's information has been
available through telephones, mobile telephones, and the
Internet for years, by working with Palm Computing on their
new wireless Palm VII organizer, we can make the process of
finding movie showtimes and purchasing tickets easier for those
moviegoers who use Palm's innovative, handheld device."
Andrea Butter, acting Vice President of Marketing for Palm
Computing, said, "MovieFone's technology is an ideal match
for the Palm VII organizer. We designed this product to enable
secure information and e-commerce applications that add more
value to our product and bring more convenience to the lives of
our customers. Their solution for finding a particular movie and
purchasing tickets over-the-air is a very exciting implementation
of our technology."
The Palm VII connected organizer is the first handheld solution
for out-of-the-box wireless communications and Internet access.
In addition to providing fast and simple access to personal and
business information, the Palm VII organizer enables users to
quickly, easily, and securely obtain information from Web sites
via a wireless connection to the Internet and provides a means of
instant two-way personal communications. The Palm VII
organizer enters a national field trial in January 1999, and is
expected to be widely available in the U.S. next year.
With the Palm VII organizer, 3Com also introduces a
revolutionary new model for accessing Internet information,
called web clipping. Web clipping is a means of extracting a
specific set of needed information from a given Web site, by
requesting certain types of information via special query forms
that reside on the Palm VII device. Information received from
the Internet by a Palm VII user is automatically optimized for
viewing on the Palm VII screen.
MovieFone, Inc. is the leading media company focusing on the
moviegoing audience. The company's primary products, the
MovieFone interactive telephone service (e.g. 777-FILM) and
Movielink.com on the web, comprise the largest movie listing
guide and ticketing service in the country, providing millions of
moviegoers each week with a complete, free directory of
movies, showtimes, theater locations, and the ability to purchase
tickets in advance. The company, which is celebrating its 10th
anniversary this year, has received over 325 million calls and
logged over 40 million online users. The company's services
cover more than 16,000 movie screens in 40 cities around the
nation, which account for over 65% of the nation's movie
attendance. MovieFone, Inc. (NASDAQ NM:MOFN) is a public
company with offices in New York and Los Angeles. 3Com and
Palm Computing are registered trademarks, and Palm VII is a
trademark of 3Com Corporation or its subsidiaries.
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