AirMedia offers special, limited-time promotion on service plans for the AirMedia live Internet Broadcast Network.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)--September 16, 1996-- Offer is Available to Registered Global Village NewsCatcher Users; Good Through January 31, 1997 AirMedia is providing registered users of Global Village's NewsCatcher wireless receiver special, limited-time promotional subscription plans for the AirMedia Live Internet Broadcast Network. The AirMedia Live Internet Broadcast Network wirelessly delivers breaking headline news, weather reports, sports scores, entertainment information and interactive game challenges, plus stock market updates, and e-mail notifications from a variety of leading branded Internet and online sources. With a wireless receiver such as Global Village's NewsCatcher and the AirMedia Live Internet Broadcast Network, any desktop PC in the home or office is transformed into a 24-hour personalized per·son·al·ize tr.v. per·son·al·ized, per·son·al·iz·ing, per·son·al·iz·es 1. To take (a general remark or characterization) in a personal manner. 2. To attribute human or personal qualities to; personify. news, information and messaging center that receives information in real-time and independent of a modem or Internet connection. With AirMedia Live, PC users can be the first to get breaking information hot off the Internet without going online to search for it. Starting immediately and effective through the end of January 1997, the subscription promotion includes three levels: the Power Up Plan, Premiere Plan, and Premiere Plus E-Mail Plan. NewsCatcher is delivered with the basic Power Up Plan free for one year to all NewsCatcher users. Operational right out of the box, AirMedia Live's Power Up Plan starts bringing information to a desktop PC as soon as the NewsCatcher receiver is hooked up and the AirMedia Live software is installed. With the Power Up Plan, users receive breaking news stories as they happen throughout the day, headline news updates twice an hour, financial market updates at the close of the market, daily weather reports, end-of-game sports scores, weekly movie reviews, information on travel bargains several times per day, weekly lottery results for all states, weekly horoscopes, and one ongoing interactive game challenge. Premiere Plan broadcasts are provided free for 90 days to all registered NewsCatcher users. After 90 days the subscription rate will be $5.95 per month. With the AirMedia Live Premiere Plan, users get all of the information provided through the Power Up Plan but with more frequent broadcasts and updates, as well as news stories in additional categories. With the Premiere Plan, users receive constant broadcasts of breaking and national news stories, stock market updates twice per hour while the market is open, three-day weather forecasts, updated sports scores as they happen, weekly movie reviews, information on travel bargains several times per day, daily lottery results, daily horoscopes, and three ongoing interactive game challenges. Additional ongoing news headlines are provided all day long for sports, financial and special industry news stories including technology and healthcare. The Premiere Plus E-Mail Plan is also free for the first 90 days to all registered NewsCatcher users, and will be available for $9.95 per month thereafter. Users can also become Charter Members and lock in the $9.95 per month subscription rate by providing future billing information upon registration. The Premiere Plus E-Mail Plan delivers all the critical information available through the Premiere Plan with the same broadcast schedule. It also provides instant notification of incoming e-mail messages, with information on the sender and which e-mail service See Internet e-mail service. "It's From". This feature provides great flexibility and freedom since it eliminates the need to constantly go online to check for new e-mail messages. With the promotional Premier Plus E-Mail Plan, users get up to 100 new e-mail alerts per month, and AirMedia Live provides single-click access to the online service and e-mail providers such as CompuServe or 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. (ISP (1) See in-system programmable. (2) (Internet Service Provider) An organization that provides access to the Internet. Connection to the user is provided via dial-up, ISDN, cable, DSL and T1/T3 lines. ) like EarthLink Network for retrieval of the full message. The information delivered over the AirMedia Live Internet Broadcast Network is provided in real time by a wide variety of leading online and Internet information services See IIS. including CompuServe, Reuters NewMedia, SportsLine USA, Quote.com, LottoWorld Magazine, Freese-Notis Weather, MovieFone, CommunicationsNOW, COMTEX Information Service, Business Wire, PR Newswire  This article or section is written like an .Please help [ rewrite this article] from a neutral point of view. Mark blatant advertising for , using . , Ziff-Davis Wire Highlights, Knight-Ridder/Tribune Business News, The Sports Network, TravelGram, Yoyodyne Entertainment and more. AirMedia Live is the 1996 Gold Medal gold medal traditional first prize. [Western Cult: Misc.] See : Prize winner of New Media Magazine's Invision Award for technical innovation and creative excellence in interactive multimedia, and was honored as a Premiere Product at Infoworld's highly respected Demo '96 conference. More information on AirMedia Live is available at http://www.airmedia.com. AirMedia Live is a product of AirMedia, a leading provider of Internet software and services based in Newport Beach, CA. AirMedia develops and markets products and broadcast services that merge computing computing - computer and wireless communications wireless communications System using radio-frequency, infrared, microwave, or other types of electromagnetic or acoustic waves in place of wires, cables, or fibre optics to transmit signals or data. technologies. The growing list of licensees for its AirMedia Live software, hardware and wireless network technologies includes communications and multimedia peripheral companies, PC and handheld manufacturers, and information providers. The company also provides software solutions for paging, broadband and narrowband In communications, transmission rates up to T1 speeds (1.544 Mbps). The upper limit is moving target. At one time, narrowband meant 150 bps (that is 150 bits per second!). Then, the upper limit became 2,400 bps. Later, it moved to 64 Kbps. Contrast with wideband and broadband. personal communications systems In telecommunication, a communications system is a collection of individual communications networks, transmission systems, relay stations, tributary stations, and data terminal equipment (DTE) usually capable of interconnection and interoperation to form an integrated whole. (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 parent company, Ex Machina, Inc., of 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. Ex Machina was recently named one of the 100 most important wireless companies by Mobile Letter Magazine. The company's products are sold directly, in the computer and office products retail channel and through OEM (Original Equipment Manufacturer) The rebranding of equipment and selling it. The term initially referred to the company that made the products (the "original" manufacturer), but eventually became widely used to refer to the organization that buys the products and relationships with such companies as Motorola, Apple Computer, Global Village Communication, Intel, Hewlett Packard, Symantec, GTE GTE General Telephone & Electronics GTE Génie Thermique et Énergie (French) GTE Gas Turbine Engine GTE Global Tropospheric Experiment GTE Geothermal Energy GTE Gas Turbine Efficiency plc (Sweden & USA) and Sprint. More information is available http://www.exmachina.com. EDITORS NOTE: For information on where to buy the NewsCatcher wireless receiver, your readers may visit the AirMedia web site, http://www.airmedia.com, or call 1-800- AIRMEDIA (1-800-247-6334). AirMedia is a division of Ex Machina, Inc. AirMedia and AirMedia Live are trademarks of Ex Machina. NewsCatcher is a trademark of Global Village Communication. All other trademarks and brand names are properties of their respective owners. CONTACT: AirMedia Sandra Sick, 714-644-8223 x251 sandras@exmachina.com or Technology Solutions, Inc. Patricia Mozzillo, 212-696-2000 x252 pmozzillo@tsipr.com |
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