Customers Can Now Shop At Amazon.com Via the New Wireless Pocket PC; New Devices Can be Purchased At Amazon.com's Electronics Store.Business Editors, High-Tech Writers SEATTLE and REDMOND, Wash.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 19, 2000 Leading online retailer Amazon.com (www.amazon.com) in conjunction with Amazon Anywhere announced today that customers can shop at Amazon.com via the new Pocket PC through Pocket Internet Explorer A version of Microsoft Internet Explorer for the Pocket PC operating system. at www.amazon.com/pocketpc. In addition, customers can buy or place pre-orders, while supplies last, on Pocket PC devices It may never be fully completed or, depending on its its nature, it may be that it can never be completed. However, new and revised entries in the list are always welcome. This is a list of Pocket PC and Windows CE devices, and companies that make, or have made, them. from Casio, Compaq, and Hewlett-Packard in the Amazon.com Electronics store. "We want to provide customers with the convenience of shopping at Amazon.com through a variety of mobile devices, helping them to find and discover anything they may want to buy online," said Joe Galli, Amazon.com's president and COO. "The Pocket PC puts the power of the PC in your pocket, providing mobile individuals with the ability to shop at Amazon.com from anywhere at any time. There is tremendous potential for a more robust mobile shopping experience at Amazon.com via the Pocket PC, including digital music, software, and book downloads." Windows-powered Pocket PCs, the next generation PDAs from Microsoft and its partners, give customers the freedom to manage their work and life anytime, anywhere. Pocket PCs provide pocket versions of popular desktop applications, including Microsoft Outlook For the e-mail and news client bundled with certain versions of Microsoft Windows, see . Microsoft Outlook or Outlook (full name Microsoft Office Outlook , Microsoft Word A full-featured word processing program for Windows and the Macintosh from Microsoft. Included in the Microsoft application suite, it is a sophisticated program with rudimentary desktop publishing capabilities that has become the most widely used word processing application on the market. , Microsoft Excel (tool) Microsoft Excel - A spreadsheet program from Microsoft, part of their Microsoft Office suite of productivity tools for Microsoft Windows and Macintosh. Excel is probably the most widely used spreadsheet in the world. Latest version: Excel 97, as of 1997-01-14. , and Internet Explorer Microsoft's Web browser, which comes with Windows starting with Windows 98. Commonly called "IE," versions for Mac and Unix are also available. Internet Explorer is the most widely used Web browser on the market. It has also been the browser engine in AOL's Internet access software. . Customers can easily access the Web using Pocket Internet Explorer, allowing them to shop securely, check stock quotes, check e-mail, and more. Customers also have the ability to download e-books with Microsoft Reader Microsoft Reader is a Microsoft program for reading of e-books. The current version for desktops is 2.6.1 (Build), copyright 2000-2007, and requires Windows Vista Ultimate or Windows XP Tablet Edition - UMPC only. Version 2.1. and access digital music, audio, and video with Microsoft Windows See Windows. (operating system) Microsoft Windows - Microsoft's proprietary window system and user interface software released in 1985 to run on top of MS-DOS. Widely criticised for being too slow (hence "Windoze", "Microsloth Windows") on the machines available then. Media Player. By using any Pocket PC device, customers can shop online at Amazon.com by entering the URL URL in full Uniform Resource Locator Address of a resource on the Internet. The resource can be any type of file stored on a server, such as a Web page, a text file, a graphics file, or an application program. www.amazon.com/pocketpc in the Pocket Internet Explorer address bar and clicking Go. Registered Amazon.com customers are ready to purchase more than 18 million products with 1-Click, including music, DVDs, videos, books, toys, video games See video game console. , software, tools, hardware, lawn and patio items, and consumer electronics. Customers can open new accounts with Amazon.com directly from their Pocket PC and start shopping from anywhere at any time. Customers can also search for specific products, compare prices, or check on pending orders. Beginning today in Amazon.com's Electronics store (www.amazon.com/electronics), shoppers can buy the HP Jornada 545 ($499.99) and the Casio Cassiopeia Casio Cassiopeia was the brand name of a PDA manufactured by Casio. It used Windows CE as the Operating system. Casio was one of the first manufacturers of PDAs, developing at the beginning small pocket-sized computers with keyboards and grayscale displays and subsequently moving E-115 ($599.99) and place pre-orders for the Compaq iPAQ H3650 ($499.99) and the Compaq Aero 1550 ($299.99). Customers can also choose from a wide variety of Pocket PC accessories. To help customers choose from the selection of Pocket PCs and accessories, Amazon.com Electronics provides detailed buying guides, expert product reviews, and multiple product images. Combined with candid comments and ratings from people who have bought and used the products, these make it easy for shoppers to choose the right products for their needs. About Amazon Anywhere Launched as a business division of Amazon.com in October 1999, Amazon Anywhere is a leader in mobile e-commerce, providing customers with access to Earth's Biggest Selection on Amazon.com from hand-held wireless Internet devices. Amazon Anywhere is available on Internet-ready phones, the Palm VII The Palm VII product family consisted of two products, the Palm VII and the Palm VIIx Palm Pilots. These were produced by Palm, Inc., before it was split into PalmOne and PalmSource. They had antennas for wireless data communication on the Mobitex network under the now defunct Palm. , and other PDA (Personal Digital Assistant) A handheld computer for managing contacts, appointments and tasks. It typically includes a name and address database, calendar, to-do list and note taker, which are the functions in a personal information manager (see PIM). devices via our open URL www.amazon.com/pocketpc. Service and handset providers that feature mobile shopping for their customers include Bell Mobility, Nextel, Nokia, Motorola, Bell Atlantic, Airtouch, and Sprint PCS. About Amazon.com Amazon.com (Amazon.com, Inc., and its subsidiaries) is the Internet's No. 1 music, No. 1 DVD DVD: see digital versatile disc. DVD in full digital video disc or digital versatile disc Type of optical disc. The DVD represents the second generation of compact-disc (CD) technology. and video, and No. 1 book retailer. Amazon.com (Nasdaq:AMZN AMZN Amazon.com (NASDAQ symbol) ) opened its virtual doors on the World Wide Web in July 1995 and today offers Earth's Biggest Selection, along with online auctions and free electronic greeting cards See e-card. . Amazon.com lists more than 18 million unique items in categories including books, CDs, toys, electronics, videos, DVDs, home improvement products, software, and video games. Through Amazon.com zShops, any business or individual can sell virtually anything to Amazon.com's more than 17 million customers, and with Amazon.com Payments, any seller can accept credit card transactions, avoiding the hassles of offline payments. The company also participates in sothebys.amazon.com, the leading auction site for guaranteed art, jewelry, and collectibles, at www.sothebys.amazon.com. Amazon.com seeks to be the world's most customer-centric company, where customers can find and discover anything they may want to buy online. Amazon.com's All Product Search scours scour, scours 1. the chemical and physical cleaning of fleece wool. 2. diarrhea. dietetic scour see dietary diarrhea. peat scour see secondary nutritional copper deficiency. the Web to help customers find merchandise that is not available at Amazon.com, Amazon.com Auctions, or Amazon.com zShops, making Amazon.com the shopping destination to find anything. Amazon.com Anywhere is the leader in mobile e-commerce, providing access from anywhere in the world to Amazon.com through hand-held wireless Internet devices that use the Wireless Application Protocol (www.amazon.com/phone/) and on personal digital assistants (PDAs). Amazon.com operates two international Web sites: www.amazon.co.uk and www.amazon.de. It also operates the Internet Movie Database (www.imdb.com), the Web's comprehensive and authoritative source of information on more than 220,000 movies and entertainment programs and 800,000 cast and crew members dating from the birth of film in 1892 to 2003. Amazon.com has invested in leading Internet retailers that are improving the lives of customers by making shopping easier and more convenient: Greenlight.com, the only company that offers car buyers the control of auto purchasing online with ongoing service and support from local dealerships, at www.greenlight.com; living.com, the leading online home products and services retailer, at www.living.com; drugstore.com, an online retail and information source for health, beauty, wellness, personal care and pharmacy, at www.drugstore.com; Pets.com, the online leader for pet products, expert information, and services, at www.pets.com; HomeGrocer.com, the first fully integrated Internet grocery-shopping and home-delivery service -- with operations in Seattle; Portland, Oregon; and Southern California -- at www.homegrocer.com; Gear.com, which offers brand-name sporting goods at prices from 20 to 90 percent off retail, at www.gear.com; and Ashford.com, the leading Internet retailer of luxury and premium products and the Web's No. 1 retailer of watches and jewelry, at www.ashford.com; Audible, Inc., the leader in Internet-delivered spoken audio for PC-based listening or playback on AudibleReady(TM) portable digital audio devices, at www.audible.com; and eZiba.com, a leading online retailer of handcrafted hand·craft n. Variant of handicraft. tr.v. hand·craft·ed, hand·craft·ing, hand·crafts To fashion or make by hand. hand·craft products from around the world, at www.eziba.com. Amazon.com also has a minority interest in Della.com, which brings together leading retailers with gift registry, expert advice, and personalized gift suggestions to help everyone give better gifts, at www.della.com; NextCard, Inc., considered the industry's leading issuer of consumer credit on the Internet, at www.nextcard.com; and Kozmo.com, the world's leading "e-mmediate" Internet-to-door delivery service, at www.kozmo.com. This announcement contains forward-looking statements that involve risks and uncertainties that include, among others, Amazon.com's limited operating history, anticipated losses, significant amount of indebtedness, unpredictability of future revenues, potential fluctuations in quarterly operating results, seasonality, consumer trends, competition, risk of distribution center expansion, risks related to fourth quarter performance, risks of system interruption, management of potential growth, inventory risks, risks related to auction and zShops services, risks related to fraud and Amazon.com Payments, and risks of new business areas, international expansion, business combinations, and strategic alliances. More information about factors that potentially could affect Amazon.com's financial results is included in Amazon.com's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, including its 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. |
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