Women.com Networks Provides Wireless Content for Women on the Go Via Palm VII Organizer
SAN MATEO, Calif. — October 4, 1999 — Women.com Networks, Inc. (www.women.com), a leading Internet destination for women, today announced it will deliver Internet content and features wirelessly via the Palm VII(TM) organizer, the first handheld computing product for out-of-the-box wireless Internet access. The Palm VII organizer is available nationwide starting today from Palm Computing, a 3Com company (Nasdaq:COMS).
"By providing personalized women's content on the Palm VII organizer, Women.com extends its brand from the desktop to the palmtop and continues to lead the way in offering women a convenient way to access useful information," said Ellen Pack, senior vice-president and founder, Women.com.
Women.com has created a Web clipping application that is easily downloaded to a Palm VII organizer, providing personalized content in three categories: health and fitness, home and garden and horoscopes. Specific features include:
— The Burn Barometer – a tool that calculates the number of calories burned during activities such as: shopping, hiking or running
— Good Housekeeping Institute's "StainBuster" – useful information to help remove stains in carpet, clothing and upholstery
— The Handy Home Estimators – a tool that helps calculate the amount of paint, wall paper, drywall or tile needed for a household project
— Astronet.com – a Women.com site, offers daily horoscopes from the largest astrology and horoscope provider on the Web
Palm VII users can download the Women.com Web clipping application at www.Palm.Net andhttp://my.women.com.
"Women.com and Palm Computing share a common vision – to make information on the Internet easily accessible for women, the fastest growing population online," said Liz Brooking, director of marketing communications for Palm Computing. "We are pleased to see popular Internet content providers like Women.com offering valuable, personalized information wirelessly for people on the move."
The new Palm VII connected organizer provides women the ability to conduct e-commerce transactions, offers easy, secure access to Internet information and serves as a means of sending and receiving short messages. The product, which shipped today nationwide for an estimated retail price of $ 499, enables users to obtain the information and tools they want and need from Web sites via a wireless connection to the Internet.
About Women.com Networks, Inc.
Women.com (www.women.com) is a leading Internet network dedicated to women, featuring award-winning original content, personalized services, community and online shopping. The network is comprised of more than 90,000 pages of content organized into 20 topical channels, including career, entertainment, family, health, home, horoscopes, technology and Internet, and pregnancy. Women.com also offers extensive membership services and benefits, including personalized content, personal home pages, e-mail, and access to community forums and clubs. In addition, the company enjoys strategic relationships with The Hearst Corporation and Rodale Press, Inc., enabling Women.com to offer an online newsstand featuring content from 13 of the world's leading women's magazines, including Cosmopolitan, Good Housekeeping, Prevention and Redbook.
3Com, the 3Com logo and Palm Computing are registered trademarks, Palm VII is a trademark and Palm.Net is a servicemark of 3Com Corporation or its subsidiaries.
This announcement may contain forward looking statements about our revenues, earnings, margins, and other future plans and objectives. These statements are subject to risks and uncertainties that could cause our actual results to vary materially from the results and objectives discussed in the forward looking statements. Among the factors that could cause actual results to differ are: increased competition from other web sites offering similar content, unexpected problems with our computer infrastructure that affect the delivery of our content, effectiveness of our marketing and advertising programs, market acceptance of our content and services, and other factors that may influence future business and financial results, including those set forth in the Women.com Networks Form S-1 registration statement filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on May 13, 1999, as amended to date. All forward looking statements are based on the information available to Women.com Networks on the date hereof, and Women.com Networks assumes no obligation to update such statements.
CONTACT:
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Annika Jensen, 650/378-4908
Ajensen@women.com