Acacia Research Affiliate in Distribution Agreement With Beyond.com; Signature-mail is Internet's First `Virtual Software Manufacturing Web Site'.PASADENA, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 22, 1999-- Acacia Research Corp. (NASDAQ/NM:ACRI) Wednesday announced that affiliate Signature-mail.com has entered into a distribution agreement with Internet software superstore Beyond.com(TM) (NASDAQ/NM:BYND). The Signature-mail(TM) software, which is now available in both Macintosh and PC versions for $14.95, enables customers to personalize their e-mail with electronic images of their handwriting. Signature-mail.com's Web site is a "virtual manufacturing Virtual manufacturing The modeling of manufacturing systems using audiovisual or other sensory features to simulate or design alternatives for an actual manufacturing environment, or the prototyping and manufacture of a proposed product using computers. plant" -- open 24 hours a day, 7 days a week -- producing customized software See custom software. within seconds of receiving customers' orders. Signature-mail is downloaded onto the customer's computer and can then be used with e-mail programs such as 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. 4.0, Netscape Messenger The e-mail client in Netscape Communicator. It has been superseded by Netscape Mail. See Netscape Communicator. , Microsoft Outlook For the e-mail and news client bundled with certain versions of Microsoft Windows, see . Microsoft Outlook or Outlook (full name Microsoft Office Outlook Express, Outlook 98 and 2000, and Eudora 4.0 as well as computer faxes and Word documents. H. Lee Browne, Signature-mail.com's chief executive officer, said: "Signature-mail is the beginning of the next generation of e-mail because it lets people personalize their online messages with their own handwriting, just like they do with paper mail. Signature-mail customers can insert their colorful signatures, greetings and drawings -- anything they would like to write -- into their e-mail with the click of a mouse. "We have entered into a distribution agreement with Beyond.com, and are delighted to be associated with Beyond's technical innovation and leadership in software distribution," said Browne. The software is being offered at http://www.beyond.com, with the Macintosh version available at http://www.beyond.com/PKBD70067/prod.htm, and the PC version at http://www.beyond.com/PKSN105093/prod.htm. Signature-mail.com LLC (Logical Link Control) See "LANs" under data link protocol. LLC - Logical Link Control is a private company that develops and markets software and services that personalize e-mail with proprietary mass customization technologies. The company will sell through electronic and conventional media and deliver its products directly to customers online. Signature-mail.com has a series of 10 patent applications for unique features as well as methods used for the automated mass customization of the production and delivery. Acacia Research owns 25 percent of Signature-mail.com. Acacia Research Corp. is a diversified company diversified company A company engaged in varied business operations not directly related to one another. A diversified company is less likely to suffer either a collapse or a spectacular gain in earnings compared with a firm concentrating its operations in a with interests in several enterprises -- CombiMatrix Corp. (biochips/drug discovery technology), Greenwich Information Technologies LLC (video and audio-on-demand technology), MerkWerks Corp. (software development), Signature-mail.com llc (personalized e-mail service), Soundbreak.com Inc. (Internet music and e-commerce), Soundview Technologies Inc. (V-chip technology), and Acacia Capital Management (investment advisory services advisory services advisory services provided to the public, in their capacity as owners and managers of animals, are an important part of veterinary science. They may be provided by government bureaux, by commercial companies who deal in pharmaceuticals or animals or animal ). |
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