AXS Technologies Closes Deal with VisualWOW.com; AXS' EyeSpy Image Server to Increase Speed & Clarity of Web Site's Digital Images.Business Editors/Hi-Tech Writers ANNAPOLIS, Md.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 26, 2001 AXS AXS Access AXS Anomalous X-Ray Scattering AXS Alpha Chi Sigma AXS Alpha X-Ray Spectrometer AXS Activex Script Technologies (www.axstech.com), whose patented parallel processing parallel processing, the concurrent or simultaneous execution of two or more parts of a single computer program, at speeds far exceeding those of a conventional computer. technology increases the speed at which high quality digital images are viewed, today announced that VisualWOW.com, an online service that allows professional photographers to buy and share digital photographs, has purchased AXS' EyeSpy(TM) Image Server for use on its Web site, www.VisualWow.com. "Retrieving multiple high quality images online entails significant download time," said Katharine Dixon, AXS Technologies' Vice President of Marketing. "With EyeSpy, VisualWOW.com customers can access their photographs instantaneously in·stan·ta·ne·ous adj. 1. Occurring or completed without perceptible delay: Relief was instantaneous. 2. , resulting in a more enjoyable visual experience online." VisualWOW.com selected EyeSpy because its superior technology makes it the ideal software for retrieving and navigating digital images on the Web. Once integrated, EyeSpy will enable VisualWOW.com to deliver high-resolution images with increased speed, zooming and panning abilities, and no visible pixellation effects. "With EyeSpy we can offer our customers online image enlargement enlargement, n an increase in size. enlargement, Dilantin, n.pr See hyperplasia, gingival, Dilantin. enlargement, idiopathic, n and detailed viewing capabilities without sacrifices to image quality," said Geoff Chesman, Chief Executive Officer and co-founder of VisualWOW.com. "These benefits are obvious - our customers will order more reprints and enlargements, increasing sales possibilities for our member photographers." About VisualWOW.com www.visualWOW.com VisualWOW.com, headquartered in Rockville, Md., is partnering with professional photographers to change the way consumers view and order photographs from special events. Founded by three professional photographers, VisualWOW.com is the only image sharing Web site developed by and for photographers. About AXS Technologies www.axstech.com AXS Technologies has developed and patented software technologies that exponentially ex·po·nen·tial adj. 1. Of or relating to an exponent. 2. Mathematics a. Containing, involving, or expressed as an exponent. b. increase the speed at which high quality digital imagery is accessed and deployed. Its products utilize cutting-edge parallel processing technology to set new standards in digital imagery by allowing commodity PCs to access in real time, high-resolution raster The horizontal lines (scan lines) displayed on a TV or computer monitor. This is the origin of the term "raster graphics," which is the major category that all bitmapped images and video frames fall into (GIF, JPEG, MPEG, etc.). image extractions with supercomputer supercomputer, a state-of-the-art, extremely powerful computer capable of manipulating massive amounts of data in a relatively short time. Supercomputers are very expensive and are employed for specialized scientific and engineering applications that must handle very performance. AXS Technologies is part of HPI HPI abbr. history of present illness Holdings SA, a publicly traded Swiss investment company. It is headquartered in Annapolis, Md. with research and development facilities in Lausanne, Switzerland. (EyeSpy(TM) and MapPix(TM) are Trademarks of AXS Technologies, Inc.) |
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