ADVISORY/CNN to Hold News Conference at Internet World Wednesday, April 5, at 11:15 a.m. PT.News/Assignment Editors ADVISORY...for Wed. (April 5) Spring Internet Internet Publicly accessible computer network connecting many smaller networks from around the world. It grew out of a U.S. Defense Department program called ARPANET (Advanced Research Projects Agency Network), established in 1969 with connections between computers at the World 2000
WHO: Donna Lewis, CNN vice president and deputy general counsel
WHAT: CNN Interactive and an online business company targeting the
professional business market will hold a live, joint news
conference at the Spring Internet World Conference.
WHEN: 11:15 a.m.-12 p.m., (PT) Wednesday, April 5
WHERE: Room 406A, Los Angeles Convention Center
1201 South Figure Street, Los Angeles, Calif. 90015
CNN CNN or Cable News Network Subsidiary company of Turner Broadcasting Systems. It was created by Ted Turner in 1980 to present 24-hour live news broadcasts, using satellites to transmit reports from news bureaus around the world. Interactive is responsible for the award-winning Adj. 1. award-winning - having received awards; "this award-winning bridge spans a distance of five miles" news site CNN.com, as well as ten other Web sites and the distribution of CNN news content via other platforms such as pagers, mobile phones and other devices. In February 1999, CNN Interactive launched CNN Mobile, the most comprehensive and advanced 24-hour global and pan-regional news and information service for GSM (Global System for Mobile Communications) A digital cellular phone technology based on TDMA that is the predominant system in Europe, but also used worldwide. Developed in the 1980s, GSM was first deployed in seven European countries in 1992. mobile phones. The CNN Web sites, which include CNN.com, CNNfn.com and CNNSI CNNSI Cable News Network and Sports Illustrated .com, are among the world's leading news and information Web sites. The CNN Web sites have served an average of 650 million page impressions a month in 2000 and served more than 6.7 billion page impressions in 1999. |
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