Infogear

InfoGear Technology Corporation, founded in 1995, was a startup technology and services company focused on the market for Internet appliances.

InfoGear had offices in California and R&D center in Israel. InfoGear developed a line of Internet appliances, of which the best known was the iPhone, an award-winning Internet screenphone. The first-generation iPhone shipped in 1997 and the second in 1999. It was ultimately distributed in the United States, Australia, South Africa and New Zealand.

The iPhone featured an integrated Web browser and e-mail client, a tiltable 7.4-inch gray scale touchscreen, a 56-kilobits-per-second modem, two phone jacks, a full duplex speaker phone, and a small keyboard. It had integrated caller-id, answering machine, and supported several web-telephony integrations, like the ability to call a number from a yellow-pages directory web page, using its second line, by touching the screen.

The InfoGear Network provided user-relevant information and services in conjunction with e-commerce, content and service partners.

InfoGear was acquired by Cisco Systems on March 16, 2000. [cite web | url=http://newsroom.cisco.com/dlls/fspnisapi6cab.html | title=Cisco Systems to Acquire InfoGear Technology Corporation | author=Cisco | date=March 16, 2000 | work=newsroom.cisco.com | accessdate=2007-01-28 ]

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