[2] Shop@AOL Launches LiveProducts -- Interactive Product Demonstrations Designed to Enrich Consumer's Online Shopping Experience.DULLES, Va. and NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec. 9, 1999-- LiveProducts Technology Lets Online Shoppers "Touch" and Test Most Popular Electronic Gifts With One Click of the Mouse Listen to Ring of a Cell Phone, Learn to Program a VCR VCR: see videocassette recorder. VCR in full videocassette recorder Electromechanical device that records, stores on a videotape cassette, and plays back on a TV set recorded images and sound. , or Try Out a Digital Camera America Online's (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange : AOL (A division of Time Warner, Inc., New York, NY, www.aol.com) The world's largest online information service with access to the Internet, e-mail, chat rooms and a variety of databases and services. ) Shop@AOL, cyberspace's No. 1 shopping destination, today launched LiveProducts interactive product demonstrations to allow online shoppers to experience many of the most popular consumer electronic holiday gifts from the comfort of their own homes. Featuring the award-winning technology of e-SIM (AMEX AMEX See: American Stock Exchange : EIM EIM Enterprise Incentive Management EIM Enterprise Information Management EIM Enterprise Identity Mapping (IBM) EIM Enterprise Instant Messaging EIM Employee Internet Management EIM European Institute for the Media ), the leader in electronic product simulations for e-commerce, interactive training and product development, LiveProducts enables Shop@AOL customers to instantly experience fully interactive product simulations that recreate the look and sound of the real product, or watch animated walk-throughs of the product features. By simply clicking on one of the products displayed, shoppers can easily test the ringer on a cell phone or click on the phone keypad and digits will appear on the phone's screen; they can maneuver the features of a digital camera; or even learn how to program a VCR before deciding whether to make a purchase. If shoppers then want to buy the product, it's only one click away. In addition, LiveProducts stores the complete owner's manual for each of the products to enable users to quickly find all the information they need. Patrick Gates, AOL's Vice President of E-Commerce, said: "Our new LiveProducts feature exemplifies Shop@AOL's focus on customer service and providing customers with a user-friendly, best-of-breed shopping experience. "By offering AOL shoppers innovative, easy-to-use, graphically-advanced technology to shop for consumer electronics, Shop@AOL continues to put the customer first while making shopping online easier, more convenient, and more fun than ever." LiveProducts can be found at AOL Keyword: "Live Products" and in the Consumer Electronics department of Shop@AOL. LiveProducts highlights a number of popular consumer electronic gift items, which currently include a Samsung TV/VCR, a Casio G-Shock watch, a GE Advantium oven, a digital camera, and a Sensory Science MP3 player A digital music player that supports the MP3 format, which was the audio format that started a revolution in online music downloads and distribution. All portable music players, the iPod being the most popular, support MP3 along with one or more other audio formats. . About America Online See AOL. , Inc. Founded in 1985, America Online, Inc., based in Dulles, Virginia Dulles, Virginia is an unincorporated census-designated place located in Loudoun County, Virginia, part of the Washington Metropolitan Area. The headquarters of AOL, Orbital Sciences Corporation and ODIN technologies and the former headquarters of MCI Inc. are located in Dulles. , is the world's leader in interactive services, web brands, Internet technologies and e-commerce services. America Online, Inc. operates: two worldwide Internet services, America Online, with more than 19 million members, and CompuServe, with more than 2.2 million members; several leading Internet brands including ICQ ("I Seek You") A conferencing program for the Internet from Mirabilis, Tel Aviv, Israel (www.icq.com). It provides interactive chat, e-mail and file transfer and can alert you when someone on your predefined list has also come online. , AOL Instant Messenger See AIM. , Digital City Inc.; the Netscape Netcenter and AOL.COM portals; Netscape Navigator An earlier Web browser for Windows, Macintosh and X Windows from Netscape that provided secure transmission over the Internet. Soon after its introduction in 1994, Navigator, or just "Netscape," as it was commonly called, quickly became the leading browser on the Web. and Communicator browsers; AOL MovieFone; Spinner.com (1) (Computer Output Microfilm) Creating microfilm or microfiche from the computer. A COM machine receives print-image output from the computer either online or via tape or disk and creates a film image of each page. , Winamp and SHOUTcast. Through its strategic alliance with Sun Microsystems Sun Microsystems, Inc. (NASDAQ: JAVA[3]) is an American vendor of computers, computer components, computer software, and information-technology services, founded on 24 February 1982. , the company develops and offers easy-to-deploy, end-to-end e-commerce and enterprise solutions for companies operating in the Net Economy. About Shop@AOL Recently called "the Internet's Miracle Mile" by Forrester Research, Shop@AOL delivers the easiest, most compelling and dynamic shopping experience available in cyberspace. AOL's cutting-edge new shopping experience brings together millions of products from more than 275 brand-name merchants, a 100% Guarantee of satisfaction and security, a graphically superior and user-friendly interface, and convenient shopping tools and features, all in one easy to use, best-of-breed shopping destination. About e-SIM e-SIM is a leading provider of advanced simulation technology for product design as well as Web-based solutions to the consumer electronics industry. e-SIM's proprietary simulation technology enables the distribution of electronic LiveProducts, "virtual products" that look and behave like real products, over the Internet or Intranet for web-based electronic commerce, interactive customer support and marketing. Using its proprietary technology, e-SIM will be launching its new Web service and portal site, www.livemanuals.com, featuring product simulations, animated walk-throughs of product features, and online user manuals. e-SIM's simulation technology builds off its RapidPLUS line of software products, which enables product designers and engineers to easily create simulated computer prototypes of electronic products that are fully functional, interactive and behaviorally identical to the manufactured products and systems. RapidPLUS offers automatic software code generation capabilities that significantly reduce the time to market for development of new products. For more information on e-SIM, please visit e-SIM's Web site located at www.e-sim.com. |
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