Britannica.com, a powerful new Web site featuring some of the highest quality content available on the Internet, today announced an agreement with Palm Inc. to bundle its Britannica(R) Traveler wireless application, which provides free access to the Encyclopaedia Britannica and useful local information, with certain future Palm(tm) handheld computers.
The announcement comes two months after Britannica.com Inc. introduced Britannica Traveler for the Palm VII handheld. Since then, thousands of customers have downloaded the application from www.britannica.com and www.palm.net. Under the agreement announced today, Britannica Traveler will be included among the applications shipped with various future Palm products, making it available more easily to a larger group of users.
"Britannica Traveler has been a success since its launch in April, and this agreement will increase its distribution and enhance our presence in the wireless market," said Don Yannias, chief executive officer of Britannica.com Inc. "Wireless transmission has great potential for us, and we intend to be a major player in this rapidly growing area."
"Wireless access to high-quality information, such as that from Britannica.com, is very appealing to our customers," said Byron Connell, vice president, consumer markets group at Palm Inc. "As content providers for future Palm handhelds, Britannica.com's application is helping us fulfill the mobile information needs of our customers."
Britannica Traveler gives users of wirelessly enabled Palm handheld computers free access to information from the Britannica.com Web site (www.britannica.com) once they have signed up for a wireless service, including the entire text of the Encyclopaedia Britannica and useful information on the area in which the user is located. Users can search the 44-million-word database and access specific articles through a wireless connection to a Britannica.com Web server.
Among the most useful features of the application is "Get Local," designed for travelers, which uses the geographical positioning capabilities of the Palm VII handheld and the geographical coding in the Britannica database to deliver local information automatically. A user in San Francisco, for example, will receive articles about the city, surrounding communities such as Berkeley, and notable people associated with the area, such as Mel Blanc, Clint Eastwood, Dianne Feinstein and Robert Frost.
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