InfoSpace.com and Intel to Collaborate on Web Appliances - Company Business and Marketing

Edge: Work-Group Computing Report, Jan 10, 2000

InfoSpace.com, a leading provider of infrastructure services for Web sites, merchants and wireless devices, Wednesday announced that it has teamed with Intel to help drive the emerging Web appliance market. InfoSpace.com will provide Intel with infrastructure services for Intel's new Web appliances available through service providers in mid-2000. Intel's new Internet-enabled Web appliances integrated with InfoSpace.com's leading Internet services will bring the power of the Internet to home devices by providing a fast and simple way to access new Internet services.

"We see a huge opportunity in the home Web appliance market to extend our vision of providing Internet services on any device," said Naveen Jain, chairman and CEO, InfoSpace.com. "Providing a services infrastructure to these devices means consumers will now have access to the most advanced communications, commerce and other services directly from their home devices eliminating the barriers that exist today for access to the Internet."

"When combined with InfoSpace.com's Internet services, we can offer advanced consumer Web appliance products that service providers can customize and brand as their own and then resell to their customers," said Claude Leglise, vice president of the Intel Architecture Business Group and general manager of the Home Products Group. "The combination of InfoSpace.com's integrated services and their technical flexibility have made it easy to implement their services on the new Web appliances."

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, pages, 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.