ClickServices.com Announces Strategic Alliance with ScreamingMedia; Wireless Users Get Access to ScreamingMedia's Online Content.Business Editors & Technology Writers NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 1, 2000 ClickServices.com, a leading wireless Internet applications and portal provider, today announced a strategic alliance with ScreamingMedia, the premium aggregator and distributor of online content. Under the terms of the agreement, ClickServices will be able to deliver real-time content from ScreamingMedia's more than 380 content providers to wireless users through any wireless device. Internet sites harvesting and filtering customized news, feature stories and photos using ScreamingMedia's proprietary system will now have the ability to offer a suite of multi-lingual applications to their mobile subscribers utilizing ClickServices.com's Wireless Communications wireless communications System using radio-frequency, infrared, microwave, or other types of electromagnetic or acoustic waves in place of wires, cables, or fibre optics to transmit signals or data. Platform (WCP WCP World Climate Programme (WMO) WCP Web Characterization Project (OCLC) WCP Wing Commander Prophecy WCP Workers' Compensation Program WCP WIN-T ). The WCP provides wireless access to the Internet on any legacy or Wireless Application Protocol (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. ) handheld device including mobile phones, pagers and personal digital assistants. "By partnering with ScreamingMedia, we gained instant access to hundreds of Web content providers and furthered our strategic mission to bring the best of digital content to wireless users," said Sundaram Natarajan, 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. of ClickServices.com. "This alliance with an industry leader and innovator like ScreamingMedia reinforces the value of our wireless Internet implementation capabilities and our commitment to breaking down barriers to wireless communication." To facilitate the growing demand for virtually instant wireless Internet capabilities, ClickServices.com has launched the Click&Go Wireless Alliance Program that provides key information on how to leverage and integrate ClickServices.com's eXtensible Markup Language See XML. (language, text) Extensible Markup Language - (XML) An initiative from the W3C defining an "extremely simple" dialect of SGML suitable for use on the World-Wide Web. http://w3.org/XML/. (XML XML in full Extensible Markup Language. Markup language developed to be a simplified and more structural version of SGML. It incorporates features of HTML (e.g., hypertext linking), but is designed to overcome some of HTML's limitations. ) interface. ClickServices.com's XML interface will allow wireless access to web content within 72 hours -- a process that previously required up to one year to implement. Information on this program can be found at www.clickservices.com/alliance. About ScreamingMedia ScreamingMedia (www.screamingmedia.com) has developed a leading global technology platform for the aggregation and distribution of digital content over the Internet. Using its proprietary technologies, ScreamingMedia aggregates content from a wide range of content providers and filters, delivers and efficiently integrates this content into its customers' Web sites almost instantaneously. ScreamingMedia has assembled a growing digital content network, which as of Mar. 31, 2000, consisted of over 800 Web site and wireless customers and content from over 380 sources. The company is based 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. and has over 180 employees. The company was founded in 1993 by Alan Ellman, who serves as ScreamingMedia's president. ScreamingMedia's chief executive officer is Kevin C. Clark, and its chairman of the board is Jay Chiat Jacob Morton "Jay" Chiat (October 25, 1931 – April 23, 2002) was an American advertising designer. Chiat was born in the Bronx in New York City and grew up in Fort Lee, New Jersey. , founder of Chiat/Day Advertising. About ClickServices.com ClickServices.com is enabling Wireless Internet technology through a Wireless Communications Platform(R) that allows carriers, Dot.com's, and corporations to empower their mobile users with on-the-go access to information. ClickServices.com accelerates time-to-market (TTM TTM Trailing 12 months. Often used with Earnings Per Share. ) and supports all types of wireless communication devices (including phones, pagers and personal digital assistants) with any type of network technology through any carrier. ClickServices.com's multi-language platform supports Brazilian Portuguese Brazilian Portuguese (português brasileiro in Portuguese) is a group of dialects of Portuguese written and spoken by virtually all the 190 million inhabitants of Brazil and by a couple million Brazilian emigrants, mainly in the United States, United Kingdom, Portugal, , Chinese, Danish, Dutch, English, French, German, Italian, Norwegian, Spanish, Suomi and Swedish. For more information, visit www.clickservices.com. |
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