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VODAFONE SELECTS FAST FOR WORLDWIDE MOBILE SEARCH SERVICES
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VODAFONE SELECTS FAST FOR WORLDWIDE MOBILE SEARCH SERVICES
Fast Search & Transfer(TM) (FAST(TM)), 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(TM) 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.”
The FAST Data Search suite of enterprise search solutions offers the most
comprehensive combination available of powerful real-time search technology,
business search management tools, and information analysis capabilities. FAST
Data Search enables companies and organizations to develop information
transparency and utilization across organizational units and geographical areas.
This results in improved efficiency through collaboration, information sharing,
and real-time data monitoring and filtering, as well as a dramatic boost in ROI
and lowered total cost-of-ownership.
For more information:
Vodafone Group Fast Search & Transfer
Tim Brown, Group Corporate Affairs Director Peter Gorman (U.S.)
Tel: +44 (0) 1635 673310 Tel: +1 781 304 2495
pr@fastsearch.com
Investor Relations
Melissa Stimpson Sven Arne Gylterud (Europe)
Darren Jones Tel: +47 23 01 12 75
Tel: +44 (0) 1635 673310
Media Relations
Jon Earl
Janine Young
Emma Conlon
Tel: +44 (0) 1635 673310
Tavistock Communications
John West
Justin Griffiths
Tel: +44 (0) 20 7920 3150
About Vodafone
Vodafone is the world’s largest mobile community, with equity interests in 26
countries and Partner Networks in a further 10 countries, serving over 125
million proportionate customers.
Vodafone’s global consumer service offering, Vodafone live!, opens up a world
of mobile colour communication, bringing news, information, e-mail, chat,
location-based services, games and shopping to customers’ mobile devices.
Vodafone live! is available in 15 countries globally and has connected more than
three million customers worldwide.
About FAST
FAST creates the real-time search and filter technology solutions that are
behind the scenes at the world’s best known companies with the most demanding
search problems. FAST’s flexible and scalable integrated technology platform
elevates the search capabilities of enterprise customers and connects people to
the relevant information they seek regardless of medium. This drives revenues
and reduces total cost of ownership by effectively leveraging IT infrastructure.
FAST’s powerful enterprise search technology solutions are used by a wide range
of global customers and partners, including AT&T, Cardinal Health,
CareerBuilder.com, Charles Schwab & Co., Chordiant, CIGNA, CNET, Dell, Fidelity
Investments, FirstGov.gov (GSA), Freeserve, IBM, LexisNexis, Nordstrom,
Overture, Reed Elsevier, Reuters, SBC Communications, Tenet Healthcare,
T-Online, US Army, and Virgilio (Telecom Italia).
FAST Data Search supplies a complete information retrieval solution ideal for
key vertical markets and applications including e-Commerce and Internet Portals,
Financial Services; Government; Life Sciences; Media and Publishing; and
Telecom.
FAST operates globally with presence in the United States, Europe, and Japan.
FAST is publicly traded under the ticker symbol ‘FAST’ on the Oslo Stock
Exchange. Please visit http://www.fastsearch.com for more information.
(c) 2003 Fast Search & Transfer ASA – Fast Search & Transfer, FAST, and the FAST
four-colored logo are trademarks of Fast Search & Transfer ASA. All rights
reserved. FAST disclaims any proprietary interest in the marks and names of
others. All other trademarks mentioned in this document are the property of
their respective owners.
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