Avantgo and Women.com Enable Women On the Go to Access Information Via Mobile Devices.Business Editors SAN MATEO San Mateo (săn mətā`ō), city (1990 pop. 85,486), San Mateo co., W Calif., on San Francisco Bay; inc. 1894. It is a commercial and retail center with some high-technology manufacturing. San Mateo, Spanish for St. , Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 7, 2000 Partnership Extends Women.com Content to Handheld Devices and Internet-Enabled Phones Women.com Networks, Inc. (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 : WOMN; www.women.com), the leading Internet destination for women and a top 50 Internet property, today announced a relationship with AvantGo Inc., a mobile Internet Refers to gaining access to the Internet using a lightweight, handheld device. See Mobile IP, PDA, smartphone and mobile TV. company, to further extend Women.com's reach via mobile devices and Internet-enabled phones. The initial deployment of Women.com content on the AvantGo mobile Internet service will include Women.com's daily horoscopes from its Astronet site, the leading online provider of horoscopes and astrology-related content. Women.com's branded, optimized content on the AvantGo service is available on Palm OS and Windows CE-based handheld devices and Internet-enabled phones. The service allows users to browse their favorite Web sites or download content and applications from more than 400 content channels specially optimized for mobile devices' small screen. "With increased demand for `daily addictions' like horoscopes, teaming up with AvantGo is part of our strategy to deliver news and information from Women.com whenever and wherever she wants it," said Ellen Pack, founder and senior vice president, Women.com Networks. "In the next three years, Internet-enabled handheld and smart phone users are expected to reach 90 million*--a huge market opportunity for Women.com as we continue to increase our scale and reach through wireless devices." "Providing up-to-date news and information targeting the increasing population of wireless women means working with leaders in women's content online," said Ann Culver cul·ver n. A dove or pigeon. [Middle English, from Old English culufre, from Vulgar Latin *columbra, from Latin columbula, diminutive of columba, dove.] , director of partner marketing and development for AvantGo Mobile Internet. "Women.com is a leader in this area and we are excited about the opportunity to work together." AvantGo subscribers can sign up for the Women.com channel at: http://avantgo.com/channels/detail.html?cha_id=1595&cat_id= About Women.com Networks Among the top 50 Internet properties, Women.com (NASDAQ: WOMN; www.women.com) is the leading women's Internet network offering programming, community, shopping and personalized per·son·al·ize tr.v. per·son·al·ized, per·son·al·iz·ing, per·son·al·iz·es 1. To take (a general remark or characterization) in a personal manner. 2. To attribute human or personal qualities to; personify. services that are relevant, interesting and immediate to women online. Uniting the most popular brand names in the world, such as Cosmopolitan cos·mo·pol·i·tan adj. Growing or occurring in many parts of the world; widely distributed. n. A cosmopolitan organism. , Good Housekeeping Good Housekeeping is a women's magazine owned by the Hearst Corporation, featuring articles about women's interests, product testing by The Good Housekeeping Institute, recipes, diet, health as well as literary articles. , Redbook, Prevention and Harlequin Harlequin (här`ləkwĭn, –kĭn): see commedia dell'arte. Harlequin Principal stock character of the Italian commedia dell'arte. , Women.com incorporates its assets into a network which is 100,000 pages deep and 18 topical channels wide. Voted "Best Fitness Hub" and "Best House & Home Hub" by Yahoo! Internet Life Yahoo! Internet Life was a monthly magazine published by Ziff-Davis, which licensed the name from Yahoo!, a well known search engine website. It was created and launched by Barry Golson, the former executive editor of Playboy and TV guide. and named one of the "best fitness sites" by Health magazine, Women.com offers expert advice, in-depth information and unique services and tools to assist visitors in every area of their lives, from health to home, parenting to career. Founded in 1992, Women.com has offices in San Mateo, Calif. and New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of , NY. About AvantGo Inc. AvantGo provides infrastructure software and services that enable businesses to create tighter relationships with their employees and customers through mobile devices. AvantGo Enterprise(TM) solutions enable organizations to wirelessly extend knowledge management, field force automation, inventory management and other business applications to their employees using mobile devices and Internet-enabled phones. The AvantGo mobile Internet service allows companies to extend content and e-commerce beyond desktop computers to individuals on the go. Using AvantGo, individuals gain free access to interactive services and personalized content from brand-name publishers and e-commerce web sites. For more information, please visit the company's web site at www.avantgo.com or call 650-638-3399. AvantGo, AvantGoEnterprise and the AvantGo logo are trademarks of AvantGo, Inc. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners. This announcement may contain forward looking statements about our revenues, earnings, margins, and other future plans and objectives. These statements are subject to risks and uncertainties that could cause our actual results to vary materially from the results and objectives discussed in the forward looking statements. Among the factors that could cause actual results to differ are: increased competition from other web sites offering similar content, unexpected problems with our computer infrastructure that affect the delivery of our content, effectiveness of our marketing and advertising programs, market acceptance of our content and services, and other factors that may influence future business and financial results, including those set forth in the Women.com Networks Annual Report on Form 10-K Form 10-K A report required by the SEC from exchange-listed companies that provides for annual disclosure of certain financial information. Form 10-K See 10-K. for the year ended December 31, 1999 filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission. All forward looking statements are based on the information available to Women.com Networks on the date hereof here·of adv. Of this. hereof Adverb Formal or law of or concerning this Adv. 1. hereof - of or concerning this; "the twigs hereof are physic" , and Women.com Networks assumes no obligation to update such statements. *Source: Jupiter Communications; December 1999; US Mobile Internet Access Device Projections, 1998-2003 Editors note: The asterisk (1) See Asterisk PBX. (2) In programming, the asterisk or "star" symbol (*) means multiplication. For example, 10 * 7 means 10 multiplied by 7. The * is also a key on computer keypads for entering expressions using multiplication. symbol (*) may not appear properly in some systems. |
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