Anawave Software Announces Purchase of Award Winning Internet Newsreader Application; Anawave Acquires MicroPlanet's Gravity for Windows 95/NT.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)--Dec. 17, 1996--Anawave Software Inc., a pacesetting Internet service and software company, today announced an agreement with MicroPlanet, Inc., a software development company, to acquire its Gravity off-line newsreader A client program that is used to read messages from Internet-based discussion groups (the venerable Usenet) or syndication feeds such as RSS and Atom. Some programs provide a search and organization tool for both newsgroups and feeds as well as local e-mail messages, contacts and other application. Gravity 1.0, a PC Magazine Editor's Choice Award winner for newsgroup newsgroup Internet forum for discussion of specific subjects. Newsgroups are organized into subjects (e.g., automobiles); each typically has several subgroups (e.g., classic cars, Formula One racing cars). readers, was designed exclusively for the 32-bit Windows environment (1) (upper case "W") Refers to computers running under a Microsoft Windows operating system. (2) (lower case "w") Also called a "windowing environment," it refers to any software that provides multiple windows on screen such as Windows, Mac, Motif and X Window. , making it both powerful and easy to use. Anawave has acquired from MicroPlanet the rights to the Gravity newsreader product and its technology. The Company plans to introduce Gravity version 1.1, a significant upgrade, and distribute it electronically in January under the Anawave brand. Under the terms of the agreement, MicroPlanet will continue to develop the Gravity product and technology in conjunction with Anawave's product development team for the duration of two years. The companies also will work together to integrate the newsreader technology in future Anawave software applications. "We are excited to add Gravity to our growing product family of Internet software tools that help make Web publishing Creating a Web site and placing it on the Web server. A Web site is a collection of HTML pages with the home page typically named INDEX.HTML. Web sites are designed using Web authoring software which provides a graphical layout capability or by hand coding in HTML or both. easy and fun for users of all levels," said Paul Summers, president and CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. of Anawave Software. "We believe Gravity is the best newsreader software application on the market today." Gravity Gravity is a rules-based USENET newsreader that allows the user to filter information from the thousands of newsgroups This is a list of newsgroups that are significant for their popularity or their position in Usenet history. As of October 2002, there are about 100,000 Usenet newsgroups, of which approximately a fifth are active. on the Internet. Users are able to sort through information on newsgroups by defining specific actions to be automatically implemented by the Gravity product. These responses include activities such as retrieving specific articles, throwing away articles, saving articles to specific directories or files, or forwarding articles on a special topic to specific addresses. Gravity fully supports off-line reading, allowing the user to continue to work while the program is searching and retrieving articles. The user can then read the articles at their leisure, and not have to sort through useless information. Pricing and Availability Gravity 1.1 will be available in January for $29.95 through Anawave's Web site at http://www.anawave.com . This upgraded version will be available for free to all registered Gravity 1.0 users. As with all Anawave Software products, users can download Gravity 1.1 for a 30-day free trial. MicroPlanet Company Information MicroPlanet, Inc. is located in Raleigh, North Carolina For other uses of this name, see Raleigh. Raleigh (IPA: /ˈrɑli/, ral-ee) is the capital of the State of North Carolina and the county seat of Wake County. . For further information on the company, please contact Tony Edwards at 919/831-9733, or visit the company's Web site at http://www.microplanet.com . Anawave Software Company Information Anawave Software, Inc. provides cost-effective, easy-to-use Internet products and services. Anawave Software is a leading developer and publisher of Internet-related software products. The company also offers a full-featured Web hosting service A web hosting service is a type of Internet hosting service that allows individuals and organizations to provide their own websites accessible via the World Wide Web. Web hosts are companies that provide space on a server they own for use by their clients as well as providing , AnaServe Web Hosting, which allows users to publish Web pages on the Internet both quickly and easily. With almost 2,000 clients, AnaServe is one of the fastest growing and largest Web hosting services in the world. CONTACT: Anawave Software, Inc. Marissa Jabczenski, 714/250-7262 marissaj@anawave.com |
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