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The mySimon shopping bot service this week will be able to put the power of e-commerce in the palms of consumers’ hands, literally.
MySimon, which offers automated online comparison shopping with its Virtual Learning Agent technology, has inked a deal with 3Com subsidiary U.S. Palm Computing to embed a special version of the VLA into 3Com’s Palm VII handheld electronic organizer, which starts shipping today in the New York market only.
Since October 1998, shoppers have gone to the mySimon Web site to search for a product with the help of a VLA bot, which crawls to all available retailers and returns real-time prices.
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