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A term coined to describe the large search engine sites, such as Yahoo! and Lycos, that have branched off to offer a wide variety of services. The idea is that a Web user would peer at the Web by using only one website: the portal. For example, you go to a portal to do searches, get stock quotes, buy things, etc. It would be your everything site. Each portal site wants to offer one of each type of service so that a user
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Web Portal - Cingular's Xpress Mail(SM) With BlackBerry(R) Goes Retail; Locationsin Metro NYC to Feature New Products for Mobile ProfessionalsNEW YORK, July 27 /PRNewswire/ -- The days of spending your dailycommute staring out the train window, teeth grinding, worried aboutthe e-mail piling up in your inbox are over. Now, thanks to CingularWireless, you can have instant access to your e-mail anytime - andgetting the service is as simple as walking into any Cingular store inNew York City.To meet demand from small businesses and mobile professionals,Cingular Wireless is now offering in retail stores its flagshipwireless e-mail and phone offering, Xpress Mail(SM) with theBlackBerry 6280(TM) and BlackBerry 7280(TM) wireless handhelds.Because BlackBerry handhelds maintain a constant connectionto Cingular's wireless network, customers don't have to "dial up" toget their e-mail. Retail locations throughout the metro area willhave retail space dedicated to these and other business products.- http://finance.lycos.com/home/news/story.asp?story=42717133
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