Actioneer Inc. Signs Infoplease.com as Service Provider for the Actioneer Smart Portal Service; Information Please Selected as the First Preferred Partner for Fast Web Access Service.NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 22, 1999-- Actioneer, Inc. today announced that Information Please, a premier provider of reference information on the Web, has partnered with Actioneer to become the first Preferred Partner for the new Actioneer(R) Smart Portal(TM) service, an easier, faster way to access frequently visited electronic services. Web-based reference services provided by www.infoplease.com can now be accessed in a couple of keystrokes via the Actioneer Smart Portal service, available for free download from www.actioneer.com. Actioneer provides Web users with easy access to the www.infoplease.com almanacs, dictionary, encyclopedia and biography services, enabling use of those services without the time-consuming "point and click" navigation needed to reach them via conventional Web browsers The following is a list of web browsers. Historical Historically important browsers In order of release:
"Actioneer's Smart Portal is a terrific new front-end tool, enabling seamless access to the Web and 'need-to-know' information -- infoplease.com's specialty," said Elizabeth Buckley Kubik, Vice President of Information Please. "We are pleased to be partnering with Actioneer to provide access to our authoritative information in this easy new way." As a Preferred Partner, Information Please will provide links to Actioneer on its Web site (www.infoplease.com), and Actioneer will include connectors to Information Please services in its "starter set" of Actioneer connectors provided as part of the download of software enabling (programming) software enabling - (Or "enabling") Modification of the design or implementation of software to allow internationalisation to take place. In particular, enabling may refer to the modification of software to support double-byte character sets, hence "Unicode the Actioneer Smart Portal service. The Actioneer Smart Portal service is the first new method for accessing the Web since the browser. Users can quickly and easily access selected Web services (1) Loosely, any online service delivered over the Web. Such usage appears in articles from non-technical sources, but not in IT-oriented publications, because definition #2 below describes the correct use of the term. , including the infoplease.com Web site and other services such as online stock quotes, ticket agencies, book and CD merchants, local movie times, TV listings, concert schedules and white and yellow pages, headlines and weather. "Actioneer gives users the fastest access to 'e-services' on the Web and the desktop," said Tom Hagan, chief executive officer of Actioneer. "We call it an 'unbrowser' -- an intuitive, always-available interface that saves users time when they look up information or buy things on the Web, or when they capture information for their handheld or desktop organizers." Hagan added that the company will be announcing additional Preferred Partners in coming weeks. Connectors to Preferred Partner services will come pre-built into the Actioneer Smart Portal software Portal Software was founded in 1985 as Portal Information Network, one of the first ISPs in the San Francisco Bay Area. It was founded by John Little. The company offered its own interface through modem access that featured Internet email. when downloaded for installation on the desktop. These "pipelines" exchange information from one place to another -- on the desktop or on the Web. The starter set of connectors within the service providing access to useful online information services See Information Systems. , Web merchants and electronic organizers. The company maintains a growing catalog of Actioneer connectors to services of all kinds, almost all available for download free of charge, on their Web site at www.actioneer.com. The new capability for easing access to Web services builds on Actioneer's success with providing easy access to electronic organizers, including Palm Desktop, 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 (R) and Lotus Notes Messaging and groupware software from IBM Lotus that was introduced in 1989 for OS/2 and later expanded to Windows, Mac, Unix, NetWare, AS/400 and S/390. Notes provides e-mail, document sharing, workflow, group discussions and calendaring and scheduling. (R) desktop organizers, and Palm(TM) handheld organizers. Lotus Notes and Domino Advisor magazine granted Actioneer its Gold-level "Cool New Product" award; ZDNet and PC Magazine named Actioneer for Palm handhelds "Product of the Year", saying "Actioneer is one of the most innovative products to arrive this year for any platform." Using Actioneer Using Actioneer is simple. To look up a fact in the infoplease.com almanacs, for example, you need only enter the fact you are looking for Looking for In the context of general equities, this describing a buy interest in which a dealer is asked to offer stock, often involving a capital commitment. Antithesis of in touch with. in Actioneer's note-like window along with the keyword phrase "find fact". Actioneer goes to the Web and requests the fact from the infoplease.com almanac almanac, originally, a calendar with notations of astronomical and other data. Almanacs have been known in simple form almost since the invention of writing, for they served to record religious feasts, seasonal changes, and the like. , which displays the results. Similarly, word definitions from the infoplease.com dictionary are easily accessed with the keyword "lu"(for "look up"), the encyclopedia with "ency" and the biographical dictionary Biographical dictionaries — a type of encyclopedic dictionary limited to biographical information — have been written in many languages. Many attempt to cover the major personalities of a country (with limitations, such as living persons only, in Who's Who with "bio". To access services available through Actioneer, you never need to open your browser or navigate to any site -- Actioneer detects user-defined keywords in the message to dispatch the request to the proper Web destination. Actioneer also streamlines access to electronic organizers. To capture an item for entry into the Lotus Notes Calendar, for instance, you simply click open the Actioneer window and type "Sales meeting sales meeting n → reunión f de ventas Fri 4 pm". Actioneer automatically interprets the text and presents for verification a display showing that the action message is to be sent to your Friday Calendar page as a 4:00 p.m. appointment. One click then enters the information instantly into your Notes Calendar, whether Notes is open or not. The initial release of the Actioneer Smart Portal Service includes connectors providing access to over 25 e-services on the WebConnectors are also available at no charge for the Lotus Notes R5 Calendar and To Do lists and, as of July 1, free Calendar and To Do list connectors will be available for Microsoft Outlook and Palm Desktop electronic organizers and for Lotus Notes 4.6. Not all Smart Portal connectors will be free. In third quarter 1999, Actioneer will release Actioneer 3.0 Pro, upgrade connector sets providing enhanced Calendar, To Do list, Journal and messaging functionality for Lotus Notes, Palm Desktop and Microsoft Outlook users. The Actioneer Pro upgrade connector sets will be priced at under $30. Actioneer Inc. provides products and services that simplify access to online information services, electronic organizers and Web-based merchants. The Actioneer 3.0 Smart Portal service provides the first new Web access method since the introduction of the browser. Actioneer is bundled with Lotus Notes R5, and with various 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 Palm Computing platform See platform. products. Recently, Actioneer was chosen as the top-rated product for the Palm Platform by PC Computing, Fast Company, Fortune, ZDNet, and others. Red Herring Red Herring A preliminary registration statement that must be filed with the SEC describing a new issue of stock (IPO) and the prospects of the issuing company. Notes: and Upside Magazine have listed Actioneer as one of the top private Internet companies, and Computerworld chose Actioneer as one of its "100 Hot Emerging Companies". Actioneer, Inc. has offices in San Francisco San Francisco (săn frănsĭs`kō), city (1990 pop. 723,959), coextensive with San Francisco co., W Calif., on the tip of a peninsula between the Pacific Ocean and San Francisco Bay, which are connected by the strait known as the Golden and Cambridge, Mass. |
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