BRIDGE Powers TD Waterhouse Quotes & News, Now On AT&T Digital PocketNet Service; BRIDGE Provides Premium Financial Information, News and Wireless Applications to Initiative.Business Editors and Technology Writers NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 16, 2001 Bridge Information Systems (BRIDGE(R)), the largest provider of financial information services See Information Systems. in North America North America, third largest continent (1990 est. pop. 365,000,000), c.9,400,000 sq mi (24,346,000 sq km), the northern of the two continents of the Western Hemisphere. , announced today that it is the provider of financial information for TD Waterhouse TD Waterhouse is the brand used for both British and Canadian brokerages within the TD Bank Financial Group. The brand originated as a United States brand for discount brokerage when TD purchased Waterhouse Securities. Quotes & News, now available on AT&T Digital PocketNet(SM) service, a wireless service with unlimited access to featured wireless Internet sites, e-mail and a wireless personal organizer. This announcement follows an agreement BRIDGE made with TD Waterhouse Group, Inc. (NYSE/TSE:TWE TWE Test of Written English TWE ThinkWave Educator (teacher productivity application) TWE That Was Easy TWE tap water enema TWE Threat Warning Equipment TWE Transitional Work Experience TWE Triangle Wind Ensemble ), the global online financial services The examples and perspective in this article or section may not represent a worldwide view of the subject. Please [ improve this article] or discuss the issue on the talk page. firm, in May of last year, whereby BRIDGE powers the information services offered through TD Waterhouse's applications for wireless devices around the globe with BRIDGE data, news and analytics via BridgeConnect, BRIDGE's mobile financial information service. With today's announcement, the BRIDGE powered TD Waterhouse Quotes & News service is now available to all AT&T Digital PocketNet subscribers. This free and unlimited access service can be found on the AT&T Digital PocketNet Finance menu providing subscribers with access to unlimited quotes; daily and weekly price charts; news, searching capabilities by company, symbol, category or keyword; and advanced quote lists. "We are excited to be able to enhance our existing relationship with TD Waterhouse," said Peter Coker, Executive Vice President, BRIDGE Internet Services. "Together we will be able to offer superior products for users of wireless devices all over the world." "This further demonstrates how AT&T Wireless provides a variety of options for our wireless users," said Andy Willett, VP of Business Development for AT&T Wireless. "We continue to, bring portable Internet content to our AT&T Digital PocketNet wireless customers in a cost-effective and efficient manner." "Together with BRIDGE, TD Waterhouse's web-ready phone service is an innovative solution designed for investors who need to follow the markets from anywhere in the world," said Richard J. Rzasa, Chief Information Officer of TD Waterhouse Group, Inc. "Both BRIDGE and AT&T Wireless are leaders within their industry and we are pleased to partner with them on this initiative." BridgeConnect brings financial information to WAP (1) (Wireless Access Point) See access point. (2) (Wireless Application Protocol) A standard for providing cellular phones, pagers and other handheld devices with secure access to e-mail and text-based Web pages. enabled devices. By leveraging industry standard technology, BridgeConnect delivers the latest and most comprehensive financial information from around the world to mobile phones and PDAs. For a demonstration visit wdat.com via your WAP mobile phone. Bridge Internet Solutions provides Internet solutions to over 100 major clients globally including the top five online brokerages. Bridge Internet Solutions include the delivery and display of financial data and services over the Internet, the Internet, the, international computer network linking together thousands of individual networks at military and government agencies, educational institutions, nonprofit organizations, industrial and financial corporations of all sizes, and commercial enterprises creation and maintenance of information, Web Design, Web Hosting Making a Web site available on the Internet. Many ISPs host a few personal Web pages for an individual at no additional cost above the monthly service fee, but the address is subordinate to the ISP; for example, www.friendlyisp.com/pat_smith. and Network services. Local language capabilities and innovative investment tools such as research-on-demand are part of the BRIDGE solution. AT&T Digital PocketNet service provides wireless Internet services to consumers in major markets across the country, with free, unlimited access to more than 70 leading Internet sites, as well as flat-rate pricing for e-mail and wireless Internet web browsing. Additionally, businesses can add software and hardware to their networks that allow employees to use AT&T Digital PocketNet service to access specific applications on their corporate intranet site or connect with their corporate e-mail while away from the office. About BRIDGE BRIDGE, together with its principal operating units, Bridge Information Systems, Telerate(R), Inc., eBRIDGE(SM), Bridge Trading, and BridgeNews(SM), is the largest provider of financial information and related services in North America and one of the fastest growing in the world. BRIDGE information products include a wide range of workstations, market data feeds and web-browser-based applications, combined with comprehensive market data, in-depth news, powerful analytic tools and trading room The notion of "trading room" (sometimes used as a synonym of "trading floor", see below) is widely used in financial markets to refer to the office space where market activities are concentrated in investment banks or brokerage houses. integration systems. BridgeNews leverages a network of 600 BRIDGE journalists in more than 100 locations that break news that affect securities markets globally. BRIDGE is the co-producer of the Nightly Business Report Nightly Business Report is a financial news television program that is broadcast live, weekday evenings on most of the public television stations in the United States. Frequently abbreviated to NBR, the show is produced by public television station WPBT-TV in Miami, Florida, and and is a leading provider of financial news and information to media companies worldwide. BRIDGE, with 5000 employees worldwide, and over a quarter of a million users in over 65 countries, is headquartered in New York City New York City: see New York, city. New York City City (pop., 2000: 8,008,278), southeastern New York, at the mouth of the Hudson River. The largest city in the U.S. with the BRIDGE Trading and Technology center in St. Louis, and major regional centers in Europe, the Middle East, Africa, and the Pacific Rim Pacific Rim, term used to describe the nations bordering the Pacific Ocean and the island countries situated in it. In the post–World War II era, the Pacific Rim has become an increasingly important and interconnected economic region. . For more information visit the BRIDGE web site at http://www.bridge.com. About AT&T Wireless (www.attws.com) AT&T Wireless (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange :AWE) is among the world's premier wireless voice, data and fixed wireless communications companies, serving more than 15 million customers, including consumers, businesses, and government. With annualized annualized Of or relating to a variable that has been mathematically converted to a yearly rate. Inflation and interest rates are generally annualized since it is on this basis that these two variables are ordinarily stated and compared. revenues of more than $11 billion, AT&T Wireless provides services to customers across the globe. About TD Waterhouse TD Waterhouse Group, Inc., (NYSE/TSE:TWE), provides investors with a broad range of brokerage, mutual fund, banking and other consumer financial products on an integrated basis. In the United States, TD Waterhouse is the only online discount broker to have a retail branch in all 50 states. Worldwide, TD Waterhouse currently services 4.4 million customer accounts in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, Australia, and Hong Kong. The firm also services customers in Japan and India through joint ventures in those countries. TD Waterhouse can be found on the Internet at www.tdwaterhouse.com and on America Online at Keyword: TD Waterhouse. |
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