Fast Extends Its Contract With Wind Telecomunicazioni.Business and Technology Editors OSLO, Norway--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 19, 2001 Agreement Includes Extension of Search Service to Italia OnLine parent company, Wind, and Solidifies FAST's Position as Italy's Number One Provider of Search Fast Search & Transfer(TM) (FAST), a leading developer of search and real-time content filtering See Web filtering and parental control software. technologies, today announced the extension of its contract with Wind Telecomunicazioni S.p.A (WIND) for search services provided to the INWIND portal. In addition, FAST will power international search on Italy's largest portal, Italia OnLine, which is now owned by WIND. INWIND portal (www.inwind.it), which already uses FAST for Internet and wireless web search both for national and international queries, will continue using FAST and implement the innovative concept of integrated search results which combine web pages and specialty catalog items such as Mp3, multimedia and image files in the same results page. On the other side, Italia OnLine portal (www.iol.it) will use Arianna, its own proprietary search technology, concerning the Italian web domain. FAST has been chosen for the worldwide web context due to its "Universal Search" ability, providing great search, both wireline and wireless, and specialty search catalogs. "FAST offers clear advantages to European customers" said John M. Lervik, 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 FAST. "The fact that we can provide the freshest search index, best language support and integrated search results is only part of the equation. We understand the European marketplace and we think that our heritage and local presence is an advantage for Italia OnLine and Inwind, two of the most popular destination sites in Italy". About WIND WIND Telecomunicazioni SpA, which is owned by Enel (73.4%) and France Telecom (26.6% via the Orange Group), is the first Italian telecommunications operator capable of offering integrated fixed-line, mobile and Internet communications. It is Italy's leading portal with 550 million page views a months and the country's most important ISP (1) See in-system programmable. (2) (Internet Service Provider) An organization that provides access to the Internet. Connection to the user is provided via dial-up, ISDN, cable, DSL and T1/T3 lines. (Internet Service Provider Internet service provider (ISP) Company that provides Internet connections and services to individuals and organizations. For a monthly fee, ISPs provide computer users with a connection to their site (see data transmission), as well as a log-in name and password. ). Following completion of its merger with Infostrada, as of October 2001, WIND has a total of 22.5 million customers, including 6,9 million fixed-line, 7,4 million mobile users and 8,2 million Internet subscribers. Over the last 12 months Wind has led the way among alternative operators to the former state monopoly in winning new customers. The merged company boasts over 18,000 km of optical fiber backbone and over 2,000 km of metropolitan area networks serving more than 30 cities. About FAST Fast Search & Transfer ASA Asa (ā`sə), in the Bible, king of Judah, son and successor of Abijah. He was a good king, zealous in his extirpation of idols. When Baasha of Israel took Ramah (a few miles N of Jerusalem), Asa bought the help of Benhadad of Damascus and (FAST) unlocks the ever-expanding volume of information on the Internet and within enterprise environments through a powerful platform of scalable search and real-time alert solutions. Patented products and services include the world's most comprehensive and freshest Web search engine See Web search engines. , www.AlltheWeb.com, and high-capacity search and real-time content matching engines for the enterprise market. Market leaders relying on FAST's highly scalable and portable offerings include Dell, eBay, Ericsson, IBM (International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY, www.ibm.com) The world's largest computer company. IBM's product lines include the S/390 mainframes (zSeries), AS/400 midrange business systems (iSeries), RS/6000 workstations and servers (pSeries), Intel-based servers (xSeries) , KPNQwest, Qwest, Reed Elsevier (Scirus.com), T-Online, Terra Lycos and it partners such as Lycos Europe Introduction LYCOS Europe is a pan-European network of websites, offering a broad variety of content channels and online services, e.g. communication tools & communities, websearch, e-commerce, webhosting, homepagebuilding and Internet access. , and TIBCO Software Tibco Software Inc. is a software company, with headquarters in Palo Alto, California. Tibco sells business process management and business integration software. History Vivek Ranadive founded the company as Teknekron Software Systems (TSS) in 1985. . FAST has operations in Europe and the United States United States, officially United States of America, republic (2005 est. pop. 295,734,000), 3,539,227 sq mi (9,166,598 sq km), North America. The United States is the world's third largest country in population and the fourth largest country in area. , with research facilities in Norway. FAST shares are traded on the Oslo Stock Exchange Oslo Stock Exchange An exchange founded in 1819 and trading stocks, bonds, and stock options that is considered the options market of Norway. under the ticker FAST in Oslo, Norway. Please visit www.fastsearch.com for more information or try www.alltheweb.com. (c) 2001 Fast Search & Transfer ASA - Fast Search & Transfer, FAST, and the FAST four-colored logo are trademarks of and "All The Web All The Time is a registered trademark of Fast Search & Transfer ASA. All rights reserved. FAST disclaims any proprietary interest in the marks and names of others. All other trademarks mentioned in this document are the property of their respective owners. |
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