"NEWSCAST TODAY" NOW AVAILABLE VIA FEDLINK.WavePhore, Inc. (Nasdaq:WAVO WAVO Association of Women Against Violence ), Phoenix, Ariz., a new media content integrator and architect of digital-delivery systems, has announced that its Newscast Today service is now available through FEDLINK FEDLINK Federal Library Information Network . The FEDLINK agreement allows all federal government agencies -- executive, legislative, judicial, military, civilian, and independent agencies -- to utilize the FEDLINK contract vehicle to subscribe to Verb 1. subscribe to - receive or obtain regularly; "We take the Times every day" subscribe, take buy, purchase - obtain by purchase; acquire by means of a financial transaction; "The family purchased a new car"; "The conglomerate acquired a new company"; WavePhore's Newscast Today business intelligence service. Using FEDLINK service contracts, federal libraries, information centers, and other offices can obtain WavePhore's Newscast services directly. In addition to the Newscast Today basic information package, there are 20 other high tech, international, and financial information providers included as part of the FEDLINK contract. In 1997, more than 800 government agency members of FEDLINK spent in excess of $70 million for information retrieval information retrieval Recovery of information, especially in a database stored in a computer. Two main approaches are matching words in the query against the database index (keyword searching) and traversing the database using hypertext or hypermedia links. services. Newscast's increasing popularity is due to several factors. The service is browser-based requiring no dedicated servers on-site. Newscast allows Intranet and Internet-based delivery of current news as well as in-depth archive searches. Newscast provides customization of the user interface and information profiles for organizations and individuals. "During the past year, WavePhore has successfully sold its popular Newscast Today service to independent government agencies. Our goal is to further streamline the process," said WavePhore chairman, president, and CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. David Deeds. "To that end, our new contract with FEDLINK facilitates the process, by making it faster and easier for all federal government agencies to subscribe to our full-featured information services See Information Systems. ." ABOUT NEWSCAST Newscast Today is the Web's premier business information source designed for information professionals. Accessed from the World Wide Web or integrated into intranets and extranets, Newscast Today delivers real-time business news gathered from more than 4,500 publishing, broadcasting, financial, and government data sources to over 200,000 corporate users throughout the world. ABOUT FEDLINK Established in 1976, FEDLINK (the Federal Library and Information Network) is a cooperative program The Cooperative Program is a unified funds collection program of the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC) designed to support SBC seminaries, mission agencies and denominational ministries. of FLICC FLICC Federal Library and Information Center Committee (The Federal Library and Information Center Committee). FEDLINK, a Library of Congress sponsored network, offers any U.S. federal agency, through its library, information center, or other information-oriented office, the opportunity to enhance the resources available to meet the requirements of its personnel. ABOUT WAVEPHORE WavePhore, Inc. (Nasdaq:WAVO) is the leading new media content integrator and architect of digital delivery systems. WavePhore partners with the foremost providers of news, business data, Web-based content and multimedia programming to deliver selective intelligence and quality content to an information-dependent society. WavePhore (www.wavephore.com) enables people and enterprises to more efficiently receive, manage and productively use all types of urgent, insightful, or relevant information. The company's technologies and services aggregate, filter, customize and distribute digital content (text, graphics, music, and video) using a wide range of reliable, low-cost broadcast (FM sideband sideband, any frequency component of a modulated carrier wave other than the frequency of the carrier wave itself, i.e., any frequency added to the carrier as a result of modulation; sidebands carry the actual information while the carrier contributes none at all. , TV-VBI), satellite and Web-based delivery systems. It has technology sourcing and strategic alliances with Microsoft, Intel, Compaq, Sony, Gateway, STB See set-top box. STB - set-top box , ADS and PBS PBS in full Public Broadcasting Service Private, nonprofit U.S. corporation of public television stations. PBS provides its member stations, which are supported by public funds and private contributions rather than by commercials, with educational, cultural, National Datacast, in addition to information service agreements with some two hundred Fortune 1,000 companies worldwide. Additional information on WavePhore is available via the Internet at www.wavephore.com. Information on its consumer services can be found at www.wavetop.net; business products and services at www.newscast.net, and www.ewatch.com and network equipment and backbone services at www.wavephore.net. For more information, call (602)952-5500 x239 or (202)707-4848. |
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