AvantGo Goes RSS
I can still remember when AvantGo first came out nearly a decade ago and how excited I was by it. To be able to view “web sites” on my little handheld offline was great! Graphics and formatting all taken care for me. All I had to do was sync and go. Brilliant!
Well times have changed and content providers no longer seem to wish to have to develop for other browsers other then desktop ones. The dot com boom went BAM! and now companies need to look at the bottom line and making tiny web sites for a few users ain’t helping with keeping the ink in the black. That’s why when RSS came along, it shot off like a wild fire in the Santa Ana hills of Southern California. The server could take care of all the formatting and no extra time was needed from webmasters. Sure enough, this put a huge dent in AvantGo’s once held monopoly and now they’re coming back with an update to their formerly very popular AvantGo application: RSS!
iAnywhere, a subsidiary of Sybase, Inc. (NYSE: SY), today announced the beta release of new RSS (Really Simple Syndication) features for its popular AvantGoŽ mobile Internet service. The new features give users greater ease-of-use for viewing mobile RSS subscriptions online or offline, and expands the content available through AvantGo by including the millions of RSS feeds offered by bloggers and major media. AvantGo users can now add any RSS feed to their account, without installing additional software, and then synchronize using a wireless or desktop Internet connection to receive the feed items in a format optimized for their device. [Source]