Allegiant announces QuickTime 2.5 Windows support; multimedia and Web-authoring-tools firm commits to Apple's cross-platform digital video standard.SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 7, 1997--At Macworld Expo Tuesday, Allegiant Technologies Inc. announced that it has joined the third-party co-development team of QuickTime 2.5 for Windows (QT 2.5-Win). Allied with such developers as Electric Image, Strata, Specular spec·u·lar adj. Of, resembling, or produced by a mirror or speculum. spec  u·lar·ly adv.Adj. 1. , Adobe, Macromedia, Media 100 and others, Allegiant intends to implement key parts of the QT 2.5-Win technology into SuperCard, its flagship application for multimedia, courseware and Web authoring tool. ``Allegiant SuperCard has always excelled at enabling multimedia developers to exploit the power of QuickTime on the Macintosh,'' said Joel Staadecker, chief executive officer of Allegiant. ``Our new cross-platform 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. plug-in, Roadster, further leverages the QuickTime technology for delivery on the World Wide Web. Now, with new QuickTime 2.5 for Windows, we can provide our developers state-of-the-art enhancements in the Windows version of Roadster, and to our forthcoming SuperCard for Windows,'' Staadecker said. ``Apple is delighted Allegiant Technologies chose to invest in QuickTime for Windows,'' said Carlos Montalvo, vice president of Apple Computers' Interactive Media Group. ``Allegiant has a reputation for providing best-of-class multimedia technology with products like Roadster and SuperCard. We look forward to Allegiant exploiting the capabilities of QuickTime for Windows and further pushing the state of the art in multimedia development,'' Montalvo added. QT 2.5-Win support will first appear in Allegiant's cross-platform Internet browser See Web browser. plug-in, Roadster. First released in August 1996, Roadster plays back interactive, media-rich multimedia content and Web-based applications See Web application. that have been developed in SuperCard. ``But our work with QT 2.5-Win is really just a first step in what we see as a fundamental commitment to Apple's overall QuickTime Media Layer strategy. QTML QTML QuickTime Media Layer QTML Quick Time Media Layer gives us a way to leverage core Apple technology and Allegiant's expertise in building leading-edge authoring tools for multimedia, Internet, courseware and custom- application development,'' Staadecker said. About Allegiant Allegiant Technologies develops and markets innovative multimedia, Internet and applications-development software that empowers people to interactively educate, entertain, present and manage information. Allegiant's flagship product A primary product of a company, which is typically why the company was founded and/or what made it well known. For example, MS-DOS, Windows and the Microsoft Office suite have been flagship products of Microsoft. CorelDRAW is a flagship product of Corel Corporation. , SuperCard 2.5, was honored with the 1995 MacUser Editors' Choice (``Eddy'') award for ``Best New Multimedia Authoring Application.'' Allegiant Roadster plays interactive multimedia over the World Wide Web and is a key delivery solution for SuperCard on the Windows platform. Allegiant also develops Allegiant Marionet, a highly rated, script-level interface to the Internet that allows developers to integrate complete Internet protocol See Internet and TCP/IP. (networking) Internet Protocol - (IP) The network layer for the TCP/IP protocol suite widely used on Ethernet networks, defined in STD 5, RFC 791. IP is a connectionless, best-effort packet switching protocol. support inside most popular authoring tools and productivity applications. Marionet was recently licensed by Apple Computer to provide core capabilities for deploying custom Internet applications to serve its broad base of Internet users Internet user n → internauta m/f Internet user Internet n → internaute m/f . CONTACT: Allegiant Technologies Inc., San Diego San Diego (săn dēā`gō), city (1990 pop. 1,110,549), seat of San Diego co., S Calif., on San Diego Bay; inc. 1850. San Diego includes the unincorporated communities of La Jolla and Spring Valley. Coronado is across the bay. Kathy Episcopo, 619/587-0500, ext. 127 619/587-1314 (fax) info@allegiant.com www.allegiant.com |
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