Actor Kevin Bacon and Director Paul Verhoeven to Appear On Lycos TV to Promote Their Upcoming Columbia Pictures Film 'Hollow Man'.Entertainment Editors WALTHAM, Mass.--(ENTERTAINMENT WIRE)--August 1, 2000 Users Can Watch First of a Kind "I-Junket," Online Press Interview, on Lycos TV Tuesday, August 1 Lycos, Inc. (NASDAQ NASDAQ in full National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations U.S. market for over-the-counter securities. Established in 1971 by the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD), NASDAQ is an automated quotation system that reports on : LCOS (Liquid Crystal on Silicon) A technology used to make microdisplays for rear-projection TVs and head-mounted displays (HMDs). Each LCoS chip hosts a grayscale LCD shutter sandwiched between a cover glass and a mirror. ), the Internet's leading multi-brand network, today announced that Lycos TV (http://tv.lycos.com), the Internet's only programmed multi channel video network, will air the first-ever online press interview or "I-Junket" from Columbia Pictures. Users can watch actor Kevin Bacon and director Paul Verhoeven promote their upcoming Columbia Pictures film, "Hollow Man," on Lycos TV, beginning Tuesday, August 1. The interview will air on the Special Events Channel (http://tv.lycos.com/hollowman) and will be archived for up to one year. Online press junkets, or "I-Junkets" are the latest trend film used by studios to drive attention to their releases this summer. Lycos and Columbia plan to rollout other "I-Junkets" over the coming months, allowing top stars to promote their upcoming releases online. Users can continue to watch the Special Events channel on Lycos TV for future interviews. About Lycos, Inc. Founded in 1995, Lycos, Inc. is a leading Web media company and owner of the Lycos Network, one of the most visited hubs on the Internet reaching nearly one out of every two U.S. Web users. The Lycos Network is a unified set of Web sites, attracting a diverse audience by offering a variety of services, including leading Web search and navigation resources; Web community and communications services including free homepage building, free Web-based e-mail See Internet e-mail service and HTML e-mail. , clubs, chat, instant messaging Exchanging text messages in real time between two or more people logged into a particular instant messaging (IM) service. Instant messaging is more interactive than e-mail because messages are sent immediately, whereas e-mail messages can be queued up in a mail server for seconds or ; a personalized My Lycos start page; a comprehensive shopping center shopping center, a concentration of retail, service, and entertainment enterprises designed to serve the surrounding region. The modern shopping center differs from its antecedents—bazaars and marketplaces—in that the shops are usually amalgamated into featuring more than 3,100 merchants; and an assortment of compelling content such as games, music, news, fun and educational information and activities for kids as well as information about investing, technology, entertainment, sports, small business, travel and more. The Lycos Network is composed of Lycos.com, Tripod, WhoWhere, Angelfire, MailCity, HotBot, HotWired, Wired News, Webmonkey, Sonique, Quote, Gamesville, Lycos Zone and Matchmaker Matchmaker - A language for specifying and automating the generation of multi-lingual interprocess communication interfaces. MIG is an implementation of a subset of Matchmaker. . Headquartered near Boston in Waltham, Mass., Lycos, Inc. is a global Internet leader with a major presence throughout the U.S., Europe, Asia, Canada and Latin America. On May 16, Lycos, Inc. entered into a definitive agreement with Terra Networks, S.A. (MC: TRR TRR Transportation Research Record (Journal) TRR Test Readiness Review TRR Target Ranging Radar TRR Total Rate of Return TRR Taiwan Research Reactor ; NASDAQ: TRRA TRRA Terminal Railroad Association (of St. Louis) TRRA Three Rivers Rowing Association (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) TRRA Three River Rowing Association (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) ), a global Internet company and the leading provider of Internet access and interactive content and services to the Spanish- and Portuguese-speaking world, under which Terra will acquire Lycos in a stock-for-stock transaction. Upon completion of the transaction, Lycos shareholders will own approximately 41.6% to 49.9% of the new company, Terra Lycos. The formation of Terra Lycos is subject to shareholder and regulatory approval. (c)2000 Lycos, Inc. - Lycos(R)is a registered trademark of Carnegie Mellon University Carnegie Mellon University, at Pittsburgh, Pa.; est. 1967 through the merger of the Carnegie Institute of Technology (founded 1900, opened 1905) and the Mellon Institute of Industrial Research (founded 1913). . All other product or service marks mentioned herein are those of Lycos or their respective owners. All rights reserved. |
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