AirMedia Partners with Prodigy Internet to Offer AirMedia Live Wireless E-Mail Alerts via Prodigy E-Mail Agents.NEWPORT BEACH Newport Beach, residential and resort city (1990 pop. 66,643), Orange co., S Calif., on Newport Bay and the Pacific Ocean; inc. 1906. It is a popular seaside resort and yachting center. Manufactures include electrical and medical equipment, computers, boats, and adhesives. , Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 20, 1997-- AirMedia is growing its E-Mail partner roster, making it easy for all E-Mail users to instantly know when they have new mail without going online to check AirMedia, Inc. today announced a partnership with Prodigy, Inc. to provide wireless E-Mail alerts to AirMedia Live subscribers with Prodigy Internet E-Mail accounts. AirMedia Live's wireless E-Mail alert capabilities are being integrated into Prodigy Agents technology, the company's Web-based software programs that are designed to perform various simple tasks on the user's behalf. Prodigy E-Mail Agent is the first agent to be introduced, with others scheduled for roll-out in the coming months. With AirMedia Live's wireless E-Mail alerts, E-Mail users don't have to stop what they're doing to go online to check for new E-Mail messages. AirMedia Live E-Mail alerts let the user know when they have new mail and who it's from, giving the user the flexibility and freedom to decide whether or not to retrieve the message at that time or later on. The wireless E-Mail alert capabilities also provide one of the benefits of a full-time E-Mail connection like those used in corporations -- that is, instantly knowing new mail has arrived. Set-up and activation of Prodigy E-Mail alerts is an easy, one-time process. When registering for the AirMedia service plan, the user simply notifies the customer service representative that he or she is a Prodigy Internet E-Mail user and provides the E-Mail address See Internet address. e-mail address - electronic mail address . Once that step is complete, the user can then complete the process by going to the Prodigy Agents Web site to identify and select AirMedia Live as the place to receive instant, wireless E-Mail alerts. Prodigy Internet members who are not AirMedia Live subscribers will also have single-click access to special offers for ordering AirMedia Live. "AirMedia Live's E-Mail alerts give Prodigy Internet customers the confidence that important E-Mail messages won't sit unnoticed and the flexibility to decide when to go online to read the entire E-Mail message. While many E-Mail users on a corporate level take instant E-Mail notification for granted, users outside of corporations don't usually have access to constant E-Mail monitoring through a full-time Internet or online connection. AirMedia Live has been providing wireless E-Mail alert capabilities to users since the service first launched, and Prodigy's E-Mail Agent is a great complement to the service, providing Prodigy users with an efficient, value-added feature," said Marci Weisler, AirMedia director of partner development. "The idea behind Prodigy Agents is to make it easier for our customers to tap into and efficiently utilize the vast resources available on the Internet. The E-Mail Agent is the first available for many obvious reasons, including the pervasiveness of E-Mail usage," said Inder Gopal, president and general manager of Prodigy Solutions. "Our Prodigy E-Mail Agent lets customers know instantly that they have new mail when they're not online, either through an alphanumeric pager and now AirMedia Live. We expect that our customers will appreciate the added flexibility that this additional option gives them." Additional online services and Internet Service Providers Internet service provider (ISP) Company that provides Internet connections and services to individuals and organizations. For a monthly fee, ISPs provide computer users with a connection to their site (see data transmission), as well as a log-in name and password. (ISPs) currently supporting AirMedia Live wireless E-Mail alert capabilities include CompuServe, EarthLink Network, Sprynet, ForeverMail, Big Foot, NetAddress, NetBox, and POBox, as well as various Corporate and University E-Mail programs. AirMedia recently announced its premier wireless Active Channel for Microsoft Internet Explorer See Internet Explorer. 4.0, the newest version of Microsoft's (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 : MSFT MSFT Microsoft (stock symbol) MSFT Movimento Sociale Fiamma Tricolore (Italy) MSFT Multi-Stage Fitness Test MSFT Master of Science in Family Therapy MSFT Macalester Students for Fair Trade ) Web browser The program that serves as your front end to the Web on the Internet. In order to view a site, you type its address (URL) into the browser's Location field; for example, www.computerlanguage.com, and the home page of that site is downloaded to you. . AirMedia is providing seamless integration An addition of a new application, routine or device that works smoothly with the existing system. It implies that the new feature or program can be installed and used without problems. Contrast with "transparent," which implies that there is no discernible change after installation. of its wireless delivery technology with Internet Explorer 4.0, so Prodigy Internet E-Mail customers using AirMedia Live and Internet Explorer 4.0 can also receive streaming, wireless, inbound E-Mail alerts, news and content to the Active Desktop on a desktop or mobile computer. Prodigy, Inc. Prodigy, Inc. creates and distributes online- and Internet-related services and software through three principal business units: Prodigy Internet, focusing on the Prodigy Internet and Prodigy Classic services; Prodigy Solutions, focusing on software development and distribution; and Prodigy International, focusing on international business activities. AirMedia, Inc. AirMedia Live is the product of AirMedia, Inc., a privately held provider of Internet software and services based in Newport Beach, CA and New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of , NY. AirMedia develops and markets products and broadcast services that merge computing and wireless communications technologies to improve the way people access, receive and send information from the Internet and online world, or from an Intranet, in both desktop and mobile environments. The only company in the push technology arena with a wireless solution for delivering the best of the Internet's content to computer users, AirMedia's products and services are used by both consumers and professionals at home, on the road and in the office. AirMedia Live was awarded the prestigious Editors' Choice Awards for push technology by PC Magazine and Internet User and was honored as a Premiere Product at InfoWorld's highly respected Demo '96 conference. Current AirMedia Live content partners include CBS (Cell Broadcast Service) See cell broadcast. SportsLine, CMP's TechWeb, CNET (body) CNET - Centre national d'Etudes des Telecommunications. The French national telecommunications research centre at Lannion. , CNN CNN or Cable News Network Subsidiary company of Turner Broadcasting Systems. It was created by Ted Turner in 1980 to present 24-hour live news broadcasts, using satellites to transmit reports from news bureaus around the world. Interactive, Forbes Digital Tool, Knight-Ridder, Quote.com, Reuters, The Weather Channel, ZDNet, and many more. The growing list of licensees for its AirMedia Live Internet Broadcast Network and Internet Antenna includes Global Village Communication (NASDAQ: GVIL), Hewlett-Packard (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange : HWP HWP Height (and) Weight Proportionate HWP Half-Wave Plate HWP Highway Patrol HWP Height Weight Proportional HWP Hewlett-Packard Corporation (stock symbol) HWP Hydrolyzed Whey Peptides ), and NEC (NEC Corporation, Tokyo, www.nec.com, www.necus.com) An electronics conglomerate known in the U.S. for its monitors. In Japan, it had the lion's share of the PC market until the late 1990s (see PC 98). NEC was founded in Tokyo in 1899 as Nippon Electric Company, Ltd. , as well as a cross-section of leading communications and multimedia peripheral companies, Internet retailers and online content providers. The company also provides software solutions for paging, broadband and narrowband personal communications systems (PCS (1) (Personal Communications Services) Refers to wireless services that emerged after the U.S. government auctioned commercial licenses in 1994 and 1995. This radio spectrum in the 1. ) and digital cellular networks through its Notify! Products Group. -0- If you are interested in additional information on AirMedia, please visit the AirMedia Web site at www.airmedia.com, or call 1-800-AIR-MEDIA (1-800-247-6334). AirMedia and AirMedia Live are trademarks or registered trademarks of AirMedia, Inc. AirMedia, Inc. was formerly known as Ex Machina, Inc. All other trademarks and brand names are properties of their respective owners. CONTACT: AirMedia, Inc. Sandra Sick 714/737-5410 x251 sandras@corp.airmedia.com or Technology Solutions, Inc. Patricia Mozzillo 212/696-2000 x252 pmozzillo@tsipr.com or Prodigy, Inc. Mike Darcy 914/448-8846 darcy@prodigy.net |
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