AvantGo to Offer InfoSpace.com’s Mobile Private Label Portals to Users of Palm Computing Platform, Windows CE and Wireless PDAs
SAN MATEO, Calif. and REDMOND, Wash. — January 18, 2000 — AvantGo Expands Relationship with InfoSpace.com
AvantGo, Inc., the authority in managing mobile information, today announced that it is expanding its business relationship with InfoSpace.com (NASDAQ:INSP), a leading provider of infrastructure services for consumers, merchants and wireless devices, to provide InfoSpace.com's mobile private label portals to handheld devices, such as those based on Palm Computing and Windows CE platforms, as well as wireless PDAs.
InfoSpace.com and AvantGo.com will provide business communities' private label portals with the ability to give their customers access to relevant real-world information any time, anywhere. The new services will allow businesses to offer mobile portals under their own brand. These businesses can then offer wireless services to their customers without having to go through a costly, proprietary development effort.
"We are pleased to be extending the reach of our wireless services to AvantGo.com's business communities' to users of PDAs and other handheld devices," said Naveen Jain, CEO of InfoSpace.com. "Where before we were offering broader information to AvantGo.com users, the flexibility and scalability of our wireless platform enables us to tailor our services to meet the needs of different business communities who use mobile devices."
AvantGo.com is the only free, interactive service to give individuals "on the go" connectivity to personalized content and rich interactive applications with easy access to thousands of popular Web sites via their mobile devices. With the agreement with InfoSpace.com, AvantGo.com will enable consumer and business users to interact with personalized information off-line or wirelessly in real-time any time, anywhere. The free service is available today to anyone who visits http://www.avantgo.com.
Felix Lin, CEO of AvantGo added: "Business leaders will be excited to hear that we are extending our relationship with InfoSpace.com to offer the fastest, most cost-effective way to wirelessly reach their customers."
About InfoSpace.com, Inc.
InfoSpace.com is a leading global Internet information infrastructure company. InfoSpace.com provides infrastructure services to consumers, merchants and wireless devices. InfoSpace.com's affiliate network consists of more than 2,100 Web sites. The Company's affiliates include AOL, Microsoft, Disney/InfoSeek's GO Network, NBC's Snap, Lycos, go2net Inc., DoubleClick, Dow Jones (The Wall Street Journal Interactive Edition) and ABC LocalNet, among others. In addition, the Company provides services to a network of wireless Internet devices including PCs, cellular phones, pagers, screen telephones, television set-top boxes, online kiosks, and personal digital assistants. These include relationships with Acer America, AT&T Wireless, Nokia, Nextel, Sprint, Mitsui, Lucent and @Home.
About AvantGo
The authority in managing mobile information, AvantGo, Inc. wirelessly extends Internet, intranet and extranet applications to handheld computers based on the Palm Computing and Windows CE platforms, as well as Internet-enabled cellular phones. With its core products, AvantGo Enterprise for Fortune 1000 companies and AvantGo.com for individuals on the go, the company helps organizations stay closer to their customers. Using AvantGo.com, today hundreds of thousands of individuals are accessing free, interactive and personalized content from leading media providers on more than 350 optimized channels. For more information, please visit the company's Web site at www.avantgo.com or call 650-638-3399.
This release contains forward-looking statements relating to the development of the Company's products and services and future operating results, including statements regarding the Company's agreement with AvantGo, that are subject to certain risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from those projected. The words "believe," "expect," "intend," "anticipate," variations of such words, and similar expressions identify forward-looking statements, but their absence does not mean that the statement is not forward-looking. These statements are not guarantees of future performance and are subject to certain risks, uncertainties and assumptions that are difficult to predict. Factors that could affect the Company's actual results include the progress and costs of the development of our products and services and the timing of market acceptance of those products and services. A more detailed description of certain factors that could affect actual results include, but are not limited to, those discussed in InfoSpace.com's Annual Report on Form 10-K, in the section entitled "Factors Affecting InfoSpace.com's Operating Results, Business Prospects and Market Price of Stock." Readers are cautioned not to place undue reliance on these forward-looking statements, which speak only as of the date of this release. InfoSpace.com undertakes no obligation to update publicly any forward-looking statements to reflect new information, events or circumstances after the date of this release or to reflect the occurrence of unanticipated events.
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CONTACT:
Evans Partners/for AvantGo
Angelique Faul, 650/595-8757 [email protected]
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InfoSpace.com
Joni Hanson, 425/602-0600 [email protected]