AT&T@Home Showcases "Hands-On" Broadband Internet Exhibit At Woodfield Mall, Oct 6 - 8, 2000.Business Editors/Newspaper, TV, Radio and Technology Writers CHICAGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 4, 2000 Co-Sponsors Excite@Home and Cisco Systems “Cisco” redirects here. For other uses, see Cisco (disambiguation). Cisco System,Inc. (NASDAQ: CSCO, HKSE: 4333 ) is an American multinational corporation with 54,000 employees and annual revenue of US $28.48 billion as of 2006. Present Interactive Computers, Whirlpool Futuristic Refrigerator, Internet Seminars, "Who Wants To Be A Millionaire" Games, Prizes and Much More! Chicagoland residents will have the opportunity to experience first-hand how high speed Internet access See how to access the Internet. over cable - with speeds substantially faster than traditional Internet access -- can revolutionize their world at AT&T@Home Broadband Internet See broadband. Home Tour at Woodfield Mall Woodfield Mall is a shopping mall located in the Chicago suburb of Schaumburg, Illinois at the intersection of Golf Road and Illinois Route 53. Woodfield opened on September 9, 1971 with 59 stores, growing to 189 stores with 1. , Friday, October 6 through Sunday, October 8. The hands-on exhibit boasts state-of-the-art computers, interactive games and leading computer experts. Co-sponsored by Excite@Home and Cisco Systems, the mall tour will provide consumers with information on how to build their own Web pages and offer training on how to master the Internet. The weekend activities will include four (4) kiosks with 16 demonstration sites fully equipped with high speed Internet accessible computers, children's activities, on-site experts to answer questions and Whirlpool's computer-equipped Internet home refrigerator that keeps an inventory on food by scanning bar codes and automatically places restocking orders over the Internet to the supermarket. Consumers can register to win a vacation in picturesque Aruba. Additionally, they can win prizes during the day by playing on-site games including, karaoke karaoke (Japanese; “empty orchestra”) Use of a device that plays instrumental accompaniments to songs with the vocal tracks removed, permitting the user to sing the lead. , Who Wants To Be A Millionaire, and more. Internet experts will present seminars on various topics including: "Kids on the Net": Help your children get the most from the Internet. Learn about educational Web sites, using the Internet effectively for research and school projects, parental control software, and guiding your child's online experience. "Intertainment - Having Fun on the Net": The Web is not just a place to collect information anymore. Enjoy video on demand, digital commercial free music, live television, radio from all over the country, live concerts, animation, and more over the Net. Learn how to download music, send voice and video mail, play games, enter contests, and download and send photographs. "Front Page": Learn to build your own personal Web page quickly and easily with Microsoft's Front Page. This brings Web page building to a whole new level of professionalism. Participants can receive a free copy of Front Page for a 45-day trial period. Building on the success of its 1998 and 1999 tour, this traveling exposition visits 40 cities over a 20-week period through the fall of 2000. "The mall environment has proven to be a great venue to showcase the power and speed of broadband Internet access Broadband Internet access, often shortened to just "broadband", is high speed Internet access—typically contrasted with dial-up access over modem. Dial-up modems are generally only capable of a maximum bitrate of 56 kbit/s (kilobits per second) and require the full use of a ," said Byron Smith, executive vice president and chief marketing officer, consumer broadband services for Excite@Home. "We believe that seeing is believing Seeing is believing is an idiom first recorded in this form in 1639 that means "only physical or concrete evidence is convincing".[1] Seeing is Believing may refer to:
"We're very excited about having the Internet Home Tour come to the Chicagoland area for a second year," said Bob Krahman, Director of @Home Marketing for AT&T Broadband in the Greater Chicago Market. "Holding this event at Woodfield Mall allows us to expose even more consumers to the power of the Internet delivered over Broadband." Excite@Home and Cisco Systems are spearheading the Broadband Internet Home Tour to create awareness of the enormous capabilities of Internet access over broadband. Broadband functionality allows users to experience the Internet like never before at blazing speeds. Visit the site at www.broadband.home.com. Broadband is critical to delivering value-added Internet services and devices to the home and Cisco is teaming up with technology leaders like Excite@Home and AT&T@Home to help ensure broadband is easily and readily available to consumers nationwide. About AT&T Broadband AT&T Broadband is one of the nation's leading providers of video, broadband and data services. AT&T Broadband is a business unit of AT&T that provides cable television entertainment and information programming services to more than 16 million customers across the country. The company also provides a host of advanced video services through AT&T Digital Cable and is actively developing competitive local broadband telephone See IP phone, softphone and VoIP. services. AT&T Broadband is part of AT&T Corp. (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange :T), the world's leader in telecommunications services and technology. About Excite@Home Excite@Home (Nasdaq: ATHM ATHM Excite@Home (NASDAQ symbol) ATHM Alternative Therapies in Health and Medicine ATHM American Textile History Museum (Lowell, MA) ) is the leader in broadband, offering residential and commercial broadband services, with a global footprint of 105(a) million homes under long-term cable and DSL DSL in full Digital Subscriber Line Broadband digital communications connection that operates over standard copper telephone wires. It requires a DSL modem, which splits transmissions into two frequency bands: the lower frequencies for voice (ordinary contract. Excite@Home offers consumers broadband services over cable-modem, DSL and other last-mile connections and businesses high-speed commercial services. Excite@Home has over 30(a) million cable franchise homes under contract outside of North America North America, third largest continent (1990 est. pop. 365,000,000), c.9,400,000 sq mi (24,346,000 sq km), the northern of the two continents of the Western Hemisphere. and localized versions of the Excite service in 10 leading international markets. About Cisco Systems Cisco Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ:CSCO CSCO Cisco Systems Incorporated (stock symbol) CSCO Chief Supply Chain Officer ) is the worldwide leader in networking for the Internet. News and information are available at the Cisco Press Cisco Press is a publishing alliance between Cisco Systems and the Pearson Education division of Pearson PLC. Room. Cisco, Cisco Systems, and the Cisco Systems logo are registered trademarks of Cisco Systems, Inc. and/or its affiliates in the U.S. and certain other countries. All other trademarks mentioned in this document are the property of their respective owners. Excite@Home, @Home, @Work, Excite, Blue Mountain, the stylized styl·ize tr.v. styl·ized, styl·iz·ing, styl·iz·es 1. To restrict or make conform to a particular style. 2. To represent conventionally; conventionalize. @ logo and MatchLogic are trademarks of or licensed to At Home Corporation and may be registered in certain jurisdictions. All other brand names are trademarks of their respective owners. Legal Notices. (a) Effective upon the closing of Excite Chello. |
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