Additionally, these firms want to provide the content--including music, movies, Internet services, e-mail or business applications--that live on these devices.
Both firms are showing how big companies in a range of industries are likely to use theInternet to put themselves at the centre of new e-business ecosystems that will transform their entire way of doing business.
The museums, two of the world's most prominent, said in a joint statement the New York-based e-business would provide Internet access for people to learn about and purchase many forms of art and architectural models and design objects, beginning in late 2000 or early 2001.