iAnywhere Launches Beta of AvantGo for RSS19 October 2005
iAnywhere, a subsidiary
of Sybase, Inc. (NYSE: SY), today announced the beta release of new RSS
(Really Simple Syndication) features for its popular AvantGo(R) mobile
Internet service. The new features give users greater ease-of-use for viewing
mobile RSS subscriptions online or offline, and expands the content available
through AvantGo by including the millions of RSS feeds offered by bloggers and
major media. AvantGo users can now add any RSS feed to their account, without
installing additional software, and then synchronize using a wireless or
desktop Internet connection to receive the feed items in a format optimized
for their device.
"AvantGo has a trendsetting audience and RSS support has been one of our
top user requests," said Jon Asmussen, product manager, AvantGo at iAnywhere.
"Today we're responding by delivering a simple, free service for reading RSS
feeds on a smartphone or PDA."
New features of AvantGo for RSS include the following:
-- Easily view new RSS items/articles: AvantGo RSS channels include all
active items in a feed. Any new items since a user's last
synchronization are noted next to the channel name on the AvantGo
homepage and appear in bold text within the RSS channel.
-- Save RSS items: To save an item, the user simply selects the disk
icon next to the item title, with the ability to save up to five
items per RSS channel.
-- Easily share photos: If an RSS feed channel includes photos, a
"Slideshow" link will appear at the top of the channel homepage.
Users can select the Slideshow link to easily flip through the photos
in the feed. Since photos are already delivered to the device during
AvantGo syncs, users can share pictures from their mobile device
without waiting for each image to be retrieved over the wireless
network. Users of photo sharing sites that offer photo feeds can make
AvantGo their mobile photo album.
-- Channel personalization: Users can adjust channel settings to
optimize feed subscriptions, setting the maximum allowable size for
the channel and whether or not to include images. Users can also
modify the link depth setting, which tells AvantGo how many page
levels it should crawl when synchronizing the channel.
-- Easily subscribe to RSS channels with AvantGo's AutoChannel(TM) for
RSS: Users can take advantage of the AvantGo AutoChannel for RSS
bookmarklet which enables easy on-the-fly subscriptions to a site's
RSS channel. When a user is on a page that includes an RSS feed, a
browser bookmark can quickly add that page into AvantGo for RSS.
-- Publishers can create a button that enables users to quickly add their
site to AvantGo: Content publishers such as bloggers, online media
and magazines can use an AvantGo button creation tool to generate
code for a button to place on their Website, making it easy for
readers to take the site's feed mobile.
Availability
The beta version of iAnywhere's new AvantGo for RSS service is immediately
available for AvantGo 5.7 users. To learn more or to subscribe to an RSS
channel with AvantGo, go to: http://www.avantgo.com/rss. AvantGo for RSS
supports RSS versions 0.91, 1.0 and 2.0 and Atom syndication formats.
Supported devices include Palm OS 5, Windows Mobile Pocket PC, Symbian OS UIQ
and Symbian OS v6.1 Series 60. To sign up for the free AvantGo mobile
Internet service, go to: http://www.avantgo.com.
About AvantGo
AvantGo is a free service that delivers rich, personalized mobile websites
to smartphones and PDAs. Today, hundreds of major brands, including American
Airlines, CNET, GM, The History Channel, Rolling Stone and The New York Times,
leverage AvantGo to target a highly desirable demographic of millions of
registered users. AvantGo offers the convenience of anywhere, anytime access,
seamlessly supporting both wireless and "sync and go" connectivity. To learn
more about AvantGo visit http://www.avantgo.com.
About iAnywhere
iAnywhere provides software solutions that enable applications used on the
front lines of business to be just as reliable, secure and available as those
at headquarters. The company holds worldwide market leadership positions in
mobile and embedded databases, mobile device management and security, and
mobile middleware. Millions of subscribers, 15,000 customers and 1,000
partners rely on the company's award-winning technologies, including SQL
Anywhere(R), Afaria(R), and the AvantGo(R) mobile Internet service. iAnywhere
is a subsidiary of Sybase, Inc. (NYSE: SY). Visit http://www.ianywhere.com for
more information.
Sybase, iAnywhere, iAnywhere Solutions, SQL Anywhere, Afaria and AvantGo
are trademarks, registered trademarks or service marks of Sybase, Inc. or its
subsidiaries. (R) indicates registration in the United States of America. All
other company and product names mentioned may be trademarks of the respective
companies with which they are associated.
Special Note: As used in this release, iAnywhere means iAnywhere
Solutions, Inc., a subsidiary of Sybase, Inc. Statements concerning iAnywhere
Solutions' product market, relationships with its customers and new products
are forward-looking statements that involve a number of uncertainties and
risks and cannot be guaranteed. Factors that could ultimately affect such
statements are detailed from time to time in Sybase's Securities and Exchange
Commission filings, including but not limited to its annual report on Form 10-
K and its quarterly reports on Form 10-Q (copies of which can be viewed on the
Company's web site).
Contacts: Crystal King
iAnywhere
(978) 287-1524
crystal.king@ianywhere.com
Scott Malinowski
Citigate Cunningham
(617) 374-4223
smalinowski@cunningham.com
Source: PR Newswire
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