OracleMobile.com and Strategy.com, respectively subsidiaries of Oracle, adatabase supplier and MicroStrategy, a data-warehousing firm, allow users to select information they want to receive on their wireless devices from corporate websites.
Papal historian Anura Guruge, author of two books about the papacy and creator of adatabase of past popes, said there is some aversion among cardinals who select the pontiff to long papacies.