Andover.Net and QUIOS Partner to Help Slashdot Readers Go Wireless; Slashdot.org 'News For Nerds' Headlines Now Available On QUIOS Mobile Phones.Business/Technology Editors ACTON, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 27, 2000 Andover.Net (NASDAQ NASDAQ in full National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations U.S. market for over-the-counter securities. Established in 1971 by the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD), NASDAQ is an automated quotation system that reports on : ANDN), the Internet's leading Linux destination, today announced a partnership with QUIOS, a leading provider of mobile instant messaging Mobile Instant Messaging abbreviated as MIM is a presence enabled messaging service that aims to transpose the Internet desktop messaging such as ICQ or MSN experience to the usage scenario of being connected via a mobile/cellular device. services. Under the terms of the agreement, QUIOS will provide personalized delivery of Slashdot.org daily news headlines to the mobile geek A technically oriented person. It has typically implied a "nerdy" or "weird" personality, someone with limited social skills who likes to tinker with scientific or high-tech projects. The origin of the term dates back to the late 1800s. community. The QUIOS service will connect geeks on more than 150 mobile networks world-wide to their beloved Slashdot.org headlines enabling them to stay connected with the pulse of the Linux/Open Source industry 24 hours a day. "For some strange reason, a lot of Slashdot readers carry mobile electronics and they seem to show sudden withdrawal symptoms Withdrawal symptoms A group of physical or mental symptoms that may occur when a person suddenly stops using a drug to which he or she has become dependent. when they get too far away from Slashdot for too long," said Slashdot Founder Rob Malda. "All these ER units were e-mailing me complaining that `Slashdot Withdrawal Syndrome' (they call it SWS SWS Slow Wave Sleep SWS Short Wavelength Spectrometer SWS Sturge-Weber Syndrome (birthmark) SWS Stadtwerke Speyer GmbH (Germany) SWS Social Work Services (US Army) : why does the medical industry use so many acronyms?) was taking valuable time away from real injuries. They demanded we figure out a way to send Slashdot to our mobilized readers so they could use their phones for something more then just Tetris Tetris (Russian: Тетрис) is a , released on a large spectrum of platforms. Alexey Pajitnov originally designed and programmed the game in June 1985[1] ." Slashdot.org is home to the largest community of Open Source programmers and developers on the Internet. A virtual "town pub" for the geek community, Slashdot.org with "Cmdr Taco" Malda and "Hemos" Bates Bates , Katherine Lee 1859-1929. American educator and writer best known for her poem "America the Beautiful," written in 1893 and revised in 1904 and 1911. at the helm, offers the Linux/Open Source community's most insightful and progressive source for timely geek news, commentary, technical information and reviews. "Slashdot has a unique style that delivers important information to their interest group -- and so do we," said Marc Vanlerberghe, CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. and founder of QUIOS. "This is a natural alignment of resources to provide two technical and mobile communities with the industry-critical information they need immediately." QUIOS is dedicated to creating the world's largest carrier-independent mobile community. QUIOS' mobile instant messaging services allow members to create text messages from the QUIOS website and send them instantly to any mobile phone user around the world. Its group messaging features allow members to stay in touch with friends and family anytime, anywhere, thereby creating a "mobile community." Members subscribing to QUIOS' Slashdot.org service now have the option to receive tech-related headlines on their mobile phone by most recent headlines, most popular headlines or user selected keywords. Options can be further personalized by choosing how many messages are received and how often. Users who want to activate mobile Slashdot headlines can register for free with QUIOS at www.quios.com, and customize the mobile information they wish to receive. About Slashdot Slashdot (www.slashdot.org) is the largest online community for open source developers, providing news, "Weblog See blog and Web log. (World-Wide Web) weblog - (Commonly "blog") Any kind of diary published on the World-Wide Web, usually written by an individual (a "blogger") but also by corporate bodies. " commentary, information and reviews. Founded by Rob "CmdrTaco" Malda in 1997, Slashdot fosters community and offers the open source industry's most insightful and progressive news that nerds can use. Slashdot is located in Holland, Michigan. Slashdot can be found at www.slashdot.org About QUIOS QUIOS (pronounced Kee-os) is the largest online community site for mobile phone users. The QUIOS Mobile Community(TM) provides members with mobile instant messaging and more, allowing members to stay in touch with each other and receive time sensitive information. The QUIOS website is serving more than 30 million page impressions to over 1 million users worldwide each month. The 300,000+ registered QUIOS members are sending more than 250,000 messages per day to 152 mobile networks worldwide. Founded in 1998 by Marc Vanlerberghe, QUIOS is located in San Francisco, California “San Francisco” redirects here. For other uses, see San Francisco (disambiguation). The City and County of San Francisco (EN IPA: [sænfrənˈsɪskoʊ] and funded by Draper Fisher Jurvetson Draper Fisher Jurvetson (DFJ) is a venture capital firm based in Menlo Park, California with affiliate offices in more than 30 cities around the world and over $4.5 billion in capital commitments. , Europ@web, Integral Capital Partners, and FLV FLV Flash Video FLV Forced Liquidation Value FLV Flanders Language Valley fund (Belgium) FLV Foreign Leave FLV Foreign Liaison Visit FLV Future Large Vehicle Fund. More information is available at www.quios.com. About Andover.Net Andover.Net (NASDAQ: ANDN) is the leading Linux destination on the Internet. Serving 60 million pages impressions to over 3 million users each month, Andover.Net (andover.net) includes the largest news/community site, Slashdot (slashdot.org); the largest site for programmer resources, Freshmeat.net (www.freshmeat.net); QuestionExchange (www.questionexchange.com), providing online Linux support; and the popular developer e-commerce site, ThinkGeek (www.thinkgeek.com). With these sites and our other Linux sites such as FreeCode (www.freecode.com) and LinuxDaveCentral (www.linux.davecentral.com), Andover.Net accounts for over 50% of the visits to Linux destinations on the Internet. Andover.Net also includes cross-platform sites such as MediaBuilder (www.mediabuilder.com) that provide programmer and developer resources for users of many popular operating systems in addition to Linux such as Windows, UNIX UNIX Operating system for digital computers, developed by Ken Thompson of Bell Laboratories in 1969. 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