AGENCY.COM Experts to Present At Internet World Fall 2000; Showcase of Multiple Digital Channel Capabilities in Alliance With IBM and RealNetworks.Business/Technology Editors Fall Internet World 2000 NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 24, 2000 AGENCY.COM (Nasdaq: ACOM (language) ACOM - An early system on the IBM 705. [Listed in CACM 2(5):16 (May 1959)]. ), a leading global e-business builder, today announced that the company will participate in Internet World Fall 2000, one of the world's largest e-business and Internet technology exhibitions. AGENCY.COM will demonstrate interactive technological solutions in conjunction with IBM (International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY, www.ibm.com) The world's largest computer company. IBM's product lines include the S/390 mainframes (zSeries), AS/400 midrange business systems (iSeries), RS/6000 workstations and servers (pSeries), Intel-based servers (xSeries) and RealNetworks and will participate in IBM's Wireless Internet Forum, which will take place in the IBM Partner Pavilion on Wednesday, October 25, 2000. AGENCY.COM and IBM will demonstrate the "Experience San Antonio" project, which leverages AGENCY.COM's multiple digital channel capabilities on IBM software. This multiple digital channel application is designed to run seamlessly across Web, PDA (Personal Digital Assistant) A handheld computer for managing contacts, appointments and tasks. It typically includes a name and address database, calendar, to-do list and note taker, which are the functions in a personal information manager (see PIM). , WAP (1) (Wireless Access Point) See access point. (2) (Wireless Application Protocol) A standard for providing cellular phones, pagers and other handheld devices with secure access to e-mail and text-based Web pages. and voice browsing platforms. AGENCY.COM built the application on IBM Websphere, leveraging its new voice XML XML in full Extensible Markup Language. Markup language developed to be a simplified and more structural version of SGML. It incorporates features of HTML (e.g., hypertext linking), but is designed to overcome some of HTML's limitations. services by using XML to store the data and XSL (eXtensible Stylesheet Language) A standard from the W3C for describing a style sheet for XML documents. It is the XML counterpart to the Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) in HTML and is compatible with CSS2. to deliver the information across multiple channel devices. "Experience San Antonio" guides the user through the city with an interactive map, a complete city guide including "See and Do," "Sleep and Stay," and "Eat and Drink" features as well as an itinerary feature that allows users to plan their entire stay using any or all devices. Peter Kestenbaum, VP of Marketing for AGENCY.COM, is one of the speakers in IBM's Wireless Internet Forum, a panel event that will showcase the capabilities of IBM's pervasive computing alliance partners. "We are extremely pleased to participate in a world-class exposition like Internet World Fall 2000. Such venues enable us to exhibit our innovative solutions across multiple digital channels directly to end users," Kestenbaum said. "A critical part of our success is attributable to selecting partners with whom we can develop and demonstrate our capabilities together." AGENCY.COM will also demonstrate the strategic opportunities offered in broadband technology by partnering with RealNetworks to showcase the companies' joint capabilities. About Internet World Fall 2000 Internet World Fall 2000 is Penton Media's (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange : PME) eighth annual Internet World event and will be held at the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center Jacob K. Javits Convention Center is a large convention center on the west side of Manhattan in New York City. It was designed by architects I. M. Pei and partners. The revolutionary space frame structure was built in 1986 and named for New York Senator Jacob K. in New York City New York City: see New York, city. New York City City (pop., 2000: 8,008,278), southeastern New York, at the mouth of the Hudson River. The largest city in the U.S. on October 23-27, 2000. Over 500 speakers and 1000 Internet companies are registered to participate in this year's event. In addition, other industry leaders will discuss major trends shaping e-business in noteworthy conference sessions including the Wireless Internet Forum, Internet Financial Services Forum The Financial Services Forum is a non-partisan financial and economic policy organization comprised of the CEOs of 20 of the largest and most diversified financial services institutions doing business in the United States. , Internet Entrepreneurs Forum, Electronic Commerce Symposium and Marketing One-to-One on the Web. About AGENCY.COM AGENCY.COM is a leading global e-business builder. The company provides strategy, branding and technology services that help its clients build and grow their interactive business across multiple digital channels - the Web, wireless and interactive television. Founded in January 1995, AGENCY.COM is headquartered in New York and has offices in Amsterdam, Atlanta, Boston, Chicago, Copenhagen, Dallas, London, Paris, Portland (OR), San Francisco, Vail (CO), Woodbridge (NJ) and affiliate offices in Miami (FL), Seoul, Korea and Singapore. AGENCY.COM serves a broad and diversified global client base in a variety of industries, including 3M, Bank of America
Bank of America (NYSE: BAC TYO: 8648 ) is the largest commercial bank in the United States in terms of deposits, and the largest company of its kind in the world. , British Airways, Colgate-Palmolive, Compaq, Heineken and Reuters. For investor information, please visit our Web site at http://www.agency.com/investors or call AGENCY.COM's Investor Relations line at 212.358.2702. To receive press releases going forward, please send contact information to investors@agency.com or call toll free 877.721.3006 for a fax copy. Matters discussed in this release may include forward-looking statements that involve risks and uncertainties, and actual results may be materially different. Factors that could cause actual events or results to differ from anticipated events or results include risk factors and other items that are contained in AGENCY.COM's reports and documents filed from time to time with the Securities and Exchange Commission. |
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