AvantGo

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AvantGo was an online service with which messages / eNews could be transferred to a PDA or a smartphone and displayed. At the beginning of the millennium, many large companies were among the users.

Procedure

The user could subscribe to individual channels - specially tailored to the service - and then received current reports from various areas on the PDA. Companies such as CNN , Financial Times or ARD created the reports, while AvantGo selectively distributed them further according to user requirements. The data transfer to the PDA took place via data synchronization via a desktop PC. In this way, the user could load the new messages at home in the morning and read them later on the offline browser while on the move . In later versions, data synchronization was also possible on the go via mobile phone / WLAN.

AvantGo was available free of charge for private use for the Windows CE , Palm OS and Symbian operating systems , but a paid version was also available for "power users". The application could also be used as a web browser.

With the free version you had a data volume in a total of up to 2 MB, which could be distributed to the various desired channels. The paid version was equipped with up to 8 MB.

AvantGo, Inc.

The American company of the same name, AvantGo, Inc. , which is behind the service, was founded in 1997 , was listed on the NASDAQ stock exchange in 2000 and was headquartered in Hayward, California .

The company was best known for its free consumer service, which had seven million users at the end of 2002. The service was originally planned as a marketing tool to be able to offer backend solutions. Business remained below expectations due to the general reluctance to invest in connection with the bursting of the dot-com bubble . In 2002 the company ran into financial difficulties and had to lay off 40 percent of the workforce. Because of the sharp fall in the share price , AvantGo had to switch from the market for standard stocks to small caps on the Nasdaq . In 2003 AvantGo was acquired by Sybase for $ 38 million and incorporated into the iAnywhere division.

On June 30, 2009, AvantGo's mobile web content service was discontinued. The provider did not withdraw completely, he offered an alternative called Snac at mysnacs.com. However, this focused on Blackberrys and some Windows Mobile devices. The predecessor of Windows Mobile (Pocket PCs) was not supported, as was Palm OS devices.

Alternatives

An alternative program for receiving eNews for current handheld devices is Mobipocket . The open source program Plucker also enables the reception of any channels on PDAs - even for older devices.

With the fee-based program "World off-line" from Sunnysoft Internet pages can be downloaded and viewed in MS Internet Explorer.

Web links

supporting documents

  1. ↑ http://www.avantgo.de/frontdoor/index.html ( Memento from June 23, 2003 in the Internet Archive )
  2. ↑ http://www.stern.de/digital/computer/avantgo-immer-auf-den-punkt-informiert-3814966.html
  3. ↑ http://www.zdnet.de/39131544/inhalte-fuer-mobile-helfer-avantgo-2005/
  4. ↑ http://www.computerwoche.de/a/sybase-will-avantgo-uebernehmen,535304
  5. ↑ http://www.computerwoche.de/a/avantgos-ceo-tritt-zurueck,532878
  6. ↑ http://www.computerwoche.de/a/sybase-will-avantgo-uebernehmen,535304
  7. ↑ - ( Memento of the original from November 8, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.mysnacs.com