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Vodafone selects FAST
Vodafone selects FAST for worldwide mobile search
services
04 January 2004
Fast Search & Transfer™ (FAST™),
the leading developer of enterprise search and real-time alerting
technologies, and Vodafone, the world's largest mobile community,
today announced that FAST Data Search™ has been selected
as the mobile search platform for Vodafone live!.
The new search facility on Vodafone live! enables
customers to use their mobile handsets to search across an extensive
portfolio of content and an index of worldwide WAP content using
a hosted installation of FAST Data Search. This enables Vodafone
to quickly connect its customers to relevant services within the
Vodafone live! offering as well as to the mobile Internet. The
service is already live in Egypt, France, Germany, Greece, Italy,
the Netherlands, Malta, Portugal, Spain, Sweden and Switzerland,
with the UK scheduled early next year.
"Providing our customers with access to the
information and entertainment content they want, when they need
it, is one of our key aims with Vodafone live!," said Guy
Laurence, Global Marketing Director - Global Products and Content
Services, at Vodafone. "The integration of a mobile search
function that is quick and easy to use, is the latest addition
to Vodafone live! ensuring that our customers' experience is first
class every time."
"FAST strives to provide mission-critical search
solutions for enterprises with the most complex information retrieval
situations, as well as to further develop its search technology
for deployment with the latest technological advancements,"
said John M. Lervik, chief executive officer of FAST. "Vodafone
live! is clearly taking mobile services to the next step by allowing
customers quick access to entertainment and information services
through integrated camera phones. We are pleased that Vodafone
has selected FAST to improve the overall search experience of
its Vodafone live! offering."
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