Akamai and Apple Deliver Streaming Media Content for FOXSports.com; Super Bowl streaming event expected to be one of the largest streaming media events in history.Business Editors CAMBRIDGE, MA--(BUSINESS WIRE)--January 25, 2000 Akamai Technologies, 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 :AKAM AKAM Akamai Technologies, Inc. (stock abbreviation) AKAM Automated Key Access Machine ), the foremost provider of global, high performance services for the delivery of Internet content, streaming media, and applications, and Apple Computers (NASDAQ:AAPL AAPL Apple Computer, Inc. (stock symbol) AAPL American Association of Professional Landmen AAPL American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law AAPL Advance Audiovisual Presentation Limited AAPL Advocates for Arkansas Public Libraries ) announced today that FOXSports.com will be delivering the daily live Super Week Webcasts, live chats from the FOXSports.com web site, as well as all four FOXSports channels on Apple's QuickTime TV (QTV QTV QuickTime TV (Apple Computer, Inc.) QTV Queer Television QTV Quality Television (Philippine cable TV channel) QTV Qualified Through Verification (USDA) QTV Quran Television ) Network, for which Akamai is the exclusive network provider. Using Akamai's FreeFlow(SM) Streaming service, FOXSports will air the Super Bowl Webcasts daily at 3:00 P.M. EST and run through Friday and during halftime of Super Bowl XXXIV Super Bowl XXXIV was the 34th championship game of the modern National Football League (NFL). The game was played on January 30, 2000, at the Georgia Dome in Atlanta, Georgia, following the 1999 regular season. . The Webcasts, which will be live from Atlanta, feature analysis, updates, and news surrounding the upcoming Super Bowl broadcast. The FOXSports channels on Apple's QTV, which are delivered through Akamai's FreeFlow Streaming service, feature four separate channels that give daily sports updates such as the recent Webcast of Michael Jordan's announcement to become the head of basketball operations for the Washington Wizards and Casey Martin's PGA (1) (Professional Graphics Adapter) An early IBM PC display standard for 3D processing with 640x480x256 resolution. It was not widely used. (2) (Programmable Gate Array) See gate array and FPGA. debut. Combined with the recent acquisition of Network24, Akamai's FreeFlow Streaming offers world-class technology for streaming reliability and performance using the largest global network for the delivery of Internet content, streaming media, and applications all built on Akamai's EdgeAdvantage(TM) platform. About Akamai Akamai Technologies is headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and has offices in San Mateo, California San Mateo is a city in San Mateo County, California, in the San Francisco Bay Area. It is one of the larger suburbs on the San Francisco Peninsula, located between Burlingame to the north, Foster City to the East, and Belmont to the south. and subsidiaries in Europe. Akamai provides global Internet content, streaming media, and applications delivery services for hundreds of customers, improving Web site speed and reliability and enabling richer, more engaging Web site content. Currently, Akamai has deployed 2000 servers in 40 countries across 100 different telecommunications networks. Akamai (pronounced AH kuh my) is Hawaiian for intelligent, clever and cool. The release contains information about future expectations, plans and prospects of Akamai's management that constitute forward-looking statements for purposes of the safe harbor provisions under The Private Securities Litigation Reform Act The Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 (PSLRA) implemented several significant substantive changes affecting certain cases brought under the federal securities laws, including changes related to pleading, discovery, liability, class representation and awards fees and of 1995. Actual results may differ materially from those indicated by these forward-looking statements as a result of various important factors including, but not limited to, the dependence on Akamai's Internet content delivery service, a failure of its network infrastructure, the complexity of its service and the networks on which the service is deployed, the failure to obtain access to transmission capacity and other factors that are discussed in the Company's Registration Statement on Form S-1 and other documents periodically filed with the SEC. |
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