...CultureFinder.com, Legal Week, The Met. Office and SportsTicker to partner with on board info...
on board infoTM, the pioneering London-based electronic calendar software and e-commerce company, today announced four new strategic partnerships with CultureFinder.com and SportsTicker(R) (in North America) plus Legal Week and The Met. Office (in the UK). This takes the number of content providers for its eCalendar CompanionTM series to nine, following on from existing deals with American Express Publishing, The Economist, sportinglife.com, weatherplanner.com and ZDNet UK.
The eCalendar Companion series is a range of software designed for all popular electronic calendars on PCs, notebooks, handhelds and palmtops. It adds twelve months of important dates and information to the user's calendar according to their stated interests, and uses an innovative Internet update mechanism to maintain the information on a regular basis.
Ray Eitel Porter, Chief Executive Officer, on board info, (http://www.infuzer.com) said: "Content is key to our service and these new partners will allow us to offer an even more comprehensive range to our users. We also see the addition of such strong brand names as a great endorsement of the electronic calendar as an effective portal for reaching busy people on a daily basis. Personalising their calendars with relevant date-related information is just the start, however, the next step is to simplify their lives even further by enabling e-commerce services direct from the calendar."
These new partnerships will add a wealth of new information to the eCalendar Companion series:
From CultureFinder.com: access to a ticketing database of over 350,000 dates and events for The Arts in North America
From Legal Week: UK dates and events for the busy legal professional with information from the respected weekly publication
From The Met. Office: a continuously updated five-day weather forecast, for the cities of your choice in the UK
From SportsTicker: thousands of sporting events and fixtures from baseball to hockey, as well as keeping users up to date with scores, results and league standings for North America
Notes to Editors:
1. Earlier this year, on board info secured over $1,000,000 development capital to grow the number of premium content partners and to integrate e-commerce services in the next wave of product enhancements. The syndicate of investors was led by the NatWest IT Fund and Cambridge Research and Innovation Ltd (http://www.cril.demon.co.uk). on board info is supported by Interregnum Venture Marketing (http://www.interregnum.com), a specialist IT venture marketing company helping companies to devise business strategies to increase realisable market value.
2. Ray Eitel Porter founded on board info in 1996 and succeeded in bringing to market a range of software for the emergent handheld and mobile computing markets. The most successful was the eCalendar Companion range targeting business professionals who value the ability to personalise their calendar with dates and information which match their business and personal interests. Having formed key relationships with content partners, such as The Economist and The Automobile Association, and leading electronic calendar and palmtop suppliers, on board info is positioned to exploit the need for premium, personalised content and e-commerce services helping business users to be more productive. Successful promotions have already been run with The Financial Times, Microsoft, Psion and Lotus. New products currently under development will focus on providing information on topics such as sport, business, entertainment and the weather.
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