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Live Wireless Financial Data for PDAs

8th April 2003

UK : ADVFN, the UK's number one stocks and shares Web site, is providing live stocks and shares information to investors on the move. The first advertiser of this new service is Intel.

Investors, using any mobile device running on Microsoft* Windows* Powered Pocket PC, as well as other PDAs, can keep track of the markets in real-time, regardless of location. The service provides access to live quotes, live trade screens (Level 1), news and charting functions for the FTSE and London Stock Exchange.

'PDA Mobile' and 'PDA Mobile Plus' users will benefit from a greater volume of data than possible with previous financial offerings for mobile phones. The service is user-friendly, with information presented through a Web browser in full-colour graphics. Users can navigate their way around the
ADVFN PDA site in the same way they use a desktop PC or Laptop.

The 'PDA Mobile' service costs £30 a month and provides real-time
information for London Stock Exchange shares and delayed FTSE. The 'PDA
Mobile Plus' service, costing £50 per month, has additional real-time FTSE.
Users need to visit www.advfn.com/pda/ to register, where they will set up a
username and password. Then they can go to pda.advfn.com on their device and
get the data instantly.

"With stocks and shares, every second counts and every tool matters.
Increasing numbers of people need to be on the move and traders need tools
traditionally only available on their desktop. Now ADVFN has made these
tools completely mobile. ADVFN is in the palm of their hands and they can
take their trading anywhere," said Clement Chambers, CEO of ADVFN.

"With mobile ADVFN, I have monitored big positions from a Gondola in Venice.
At last an active trader no longer needs to be welded to their desk. ADVFN
and wireless technology sets traders free," he continued.

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