APARTMENTS.COM OPTIMIZES FOR MOBILE, OFFERS SEND2PHONE LISTINGS

Apartments.com has made its more than three million apartment listings available through web-enabled mobile phones. The Apartments.com site has been optimized for mobile browsing and lets renters conduct fully customizable search of all apartment listings on Apartments.com through a mobile phone. Other than "Apartments.com Mobile Web," Apartments.com also offers a "Send2Phone" feature allowing renters to send information about an apartment listing from the Apartments.com site to their mobile phones as a text message. Chris Brown, VP of product management at Apartments.com, said, "After taking into consideration multiple operating systems, mobile devices and carriers, Apartments.com has created a user-friendly experience for renters on the mobile web, delivering apartment listings, photos, and detailed information through a rich data format conveniently accessible from any web-enabled mobile phone and carrier." Apartments.com is a division of Chicago-based Classified Ventures LLC. -Smarajit Dasgupta