Lycos Europe Selects 2Roam to Enable Access on Mobile Devices - 2Roam Inc - Brief Article

Wireless Internet, Sept, 2001

2Roam announced that Lycos Europe's Fireball, one of the most popular search engines in Germany, has selected 2Roam to optimize its site for wireless devices. With the 2Roam Wireless Solution, Fireball can now offer German users access to the site from any wireless device.

Fireball's wireless customers can perform Web searches as well as access newspaper articles from over 200 German speaking on-line newspapers, e-mail, and other features. Fireball is the first 2Roam customer supported by its newly opened branch in Munich, Germany.

Owned by Lycos Europe, Fireball is the first German speaking search engine with a daily index update receiving over 100 million page view per month. Fireball's wireless site features the popular Fireball WAP Search Engine and WAP Catalog, as well as shopping, FireMail, FireCard, weather information, a tariff guide, newspaper articles, and the scientific Wissen section. The Fireball mobile site is now live and accessible to the German wireless market, the largest in. Europe with over 5.1 million wireless Internet users.

2Roam's technology and partnerships are uniquely suited to address the mobile needs of international businesses such as Fireball. The 2Roam Wireless Solution processes the myriad of native wireless protocols and languages to optimize the delivery of Fireball content to any handheld device regardless of make, model, form, function, or screen size.

In addition to its long list of US-based customers, 2Roam has delivered wireless Web sites in several countries throughout Europe and Asia.