This portal aims to eliminate redundancies and burdens for suppliers
through integration and collaboration, with the promise of lower costs, easier business
practices, and marked increases in efficiencies for the entire industry (Turban et. al.,
2002).
???. Personal/Mobile.portals: Following the trends towards mobile (or pervasive) computing,
personal/mobile portals are increasingly being embedded into mobile phones,
wireless PDAs, and the like. Some appliances are also being equipped with personal
portals aimed at allowing them to communicate with other appliances, or to be used
more easily from a distance.
???. Information.portals: Although information portals can, in most cases, also be classified
into one of the other categories, they can also be viewed as a category in their
own right as portals whose prime aim is to provide a specific type of information.
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The sports information portal, ESPN (http://msn.espn.go.com/), is one example of
an information portal. Another is Portals Community (http://www.portalscommunity.
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