CellMania.com Announces Online Shopping Partnership With Shopnow.com.MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 17, 1999-- CellMania.com, the first wireless destination site to integrate e-commerce, community and applications, today announced an online shopping partnership with ShopNow.com Inc., a leading direct marketing and electronic commerce company. CellMania.com offers the leading brands of cellular phones, carriers, accessories and pagers on its web site. Users of ShopNow.com's extensive merchant and customer base will now have access to CellMania's unique wireless shopping experience. Additionally, ShopNow.com will offer CellMania.com users membership in the MyShopNow.com program (http://www.myshopnow.com), a collection of 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. , pre-stocked storefronts that offers members incentives in the form of cash-back rebates on purchases. "We're delighted that our customers will have a chance to benefit from our association with ShopNow.com -- and that current ShopNow.com users will get the broader choice in cellular that we can offer them," said Vas Bhandarkar, Sr. VP Business Development of CellMania.com. "It's a highly synergistic synergistic /syn·er·gis·tic/ (sin?er-jis´tik) 1. acting together. 2. enhancing the effect of another force or agent. syn·er·gis·tic adj. 1. online partnership." "CellMania.com adds tremendous depth to our cellular category of products and services," said Anne-Marie Savage, executive vice president of ShopNow.com. "Since it's our policy to provide our users with the best possible shopping experience through selection, convenience and service, CellMania.com is a natural fit for us. ShopNow.com is proud to welcome CellMania.com to our community retailers." About CellMania.com CellMania.com (http://www.cellmania.com) is the Internet's leading information resource and online store for all wireless products, such as cellular phones, pagers and accessories, and provides expert advice and community-generated product ratings. CellMania.com has coverage for more than 90 percent of the US and offers more than 50 phones and 10,000 plans from leading manufacturers like Motorola (MOT), Nokia (NOK NOK In currencies, this is the abbreviation for the Norwegian Krone. Notes: The currency market, also known as the Foreign Exchange market, is the largest financial market in the world, with a daily average volume of over US $1 trillion. ) and Ericsson (ERICY) and service providers like Sprint PCS (1) (Personal Communications Services) Refers to wireless services that emerged after the U.S. government auctioned commercial licenses in 1994 and 1995. This radio spectrum in the 1. (PCS), AT&T(T), Nextel(NXTL) and GTE GTE General Telephone & Electronics GTE Génie Thermique et Énergie (French) GTE Gas Turbine Engine GTE Global Tropospheric Experiment GTE Geothermal Energy GTE Gas Turbine Efficiency plc (Sweden & USA) (GTE). CellMania.com also delivers value-added services A value-added service (VAS) is a telecommunications industry term for non-core services or, in short, all services beyond standard voice calls and fax transmissions. such as customized content, to data enabled communications devices Typically refers to a terminal used to send voice, video or text. Mobile phones, wireless PDAs and personal computers equipped with microphones, speakers and cameras are all considered communications devices. See modem. . The Mountain View, Calif. based company was founded in 1999 by Dr. Ronjon Nag, President and 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 Neerav Berry, Vice President Marketing. About ShopNow.com ShopNow.com (http://www.shopnow.com) provides shoppers and merchants with a dynamic online marketplace and a broad array of effective e-commerce and direct marketing solutions. The ShopNow Network, an online marketplace, is comprised of ShopNow.com, MyShopNow.com and the individual websites of its merchant customers. ShopNow aggregates more than one million products and services from more than 29,000 merchants at one Web site that can be rapidly and efficiently searched by category, merchant or product. MyShopNow enables shoppers to create personalized online stores by selecting the types of products and services offered to them. ShopNow.com has offices in Washington, Georgia Washington (originally called Heard's Fort) is a city in Wilkes County, Georgia, United States. The population was 4,295 at the 2000 census. The city is the county seat of Wilkes CountyGR6. and California. |
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