Autonomy Unveils Kenjin At Demo 2000; Free Consumer Service Automatically Connects and Delivers Information from the Web, PCs and People.Business Editors Demo 2000 INDIAN WELLS Indian Wells may refer to:
Autonomy, Inc., today announced Kenjin(TM), a unique service that automatically delivers information (regardless of its location) to consumers as they use their personal computer. With Kenjin, consumers no longer have to stop what they are doing to search for information. Instead, as they surf the Web, draft an e-mail or write a letter, Kenjin automatically connects and delivers related information from the Web, the hard drive and Kenjin users with similar interests. Kenjin uses Autonomy's core technology, which is capable of analyzing a piece of text and identifying its main ideas. This technology gives Kenjin the unique ability to understand the concepts, not keywords, in browsers, e-mail or desktop applications. After conducting a real-time analysis of the text in a Web page, Word document or e-mail message, Kenjin automatically recommends links to relevant information from the Web, the PC or individuals that have opted to share their interests with others. The links are displayed in a small window or a tool bar. According to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. Autonomy 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. Mike Lynch, Kenjin offers consumers a more dynamic and efficient way to find information. &uot;People waste too much time looking for Looking for In the context of general equities, this describing a buy interest in which a dealer is asked to offer stock, often involving a capital commitment. Antithesis of in touch with. information and wading through the inaccurate results of search engines,&uot; said Lynch. &uot;Kenjin brings information to you effortlessly, so you can do other things. For example, if you were writing an e-mail about adventure travel in the Himalayas, you would automatically be offered links to hotels in Katmandu or guided trips to Mount Everest. Kenjin would also connect you with individuals that have trekked with Nepalese Sherpas.&uot; Kenjin represents the first time consumers have access to the same enterprise-proven technology found in Autonomy's products. More than 200 customers, including Fortune 500 companies like British Aerospace British Aerospace (BAe) was a UK aircraft and defence systems manufacturer, now part of BAE Systems. History The company was formed as a statutory corporation on April 29, 1977 as a result the Aircraft and Shipbuilding Industries Act. , Lucent, and Merrill Lynch Merrill Lynch & Co., Inc. (NYSE: MER TYO: 8675 ), through its subsidiaries and affiliates, provides capital markets services, investment banking and advisory services, wealth management, asset management, insurance, banking and related products and services on a global basis. along with leading Internet companies, such as internet.com, are using Autonomy to power their corporate portals and commercial Web sites. &uot;Autonomy developed its technology as a way for companies to harness the vast amounts of prose they create each day,&uot; said Mike Lynch. &uot;With Kenjin, the same powerful technology once only available to leading companies is being offered to consumers for free. And it is easy to use. There is no complex software to install or manuals to study. If you can connect to the Internet, you can use Kenjin.&uot; Pricing and Availability Kenjin is expected to be available in May 2000. Consumers will be able to download this free service from Autonomy's Web site. For more information, visit www.autonomy.com/kenjin. About Autonomy, Inc. Autonomy's technology powers large-scale, personalized systems for knowledge management, enterprise portals, new media publishing and electronic commerce. Because of its ability to analyze any piece of text (independent of the document's language) and identify and rank the main ideas, Autonomy can automate a broad range of otherwise labor intensive Labor Intensive A process or industry that requires large amounts of human effort to produce goods. Notes: A good example is the hospitality industry (hotels, restaurants, etc), they are considered to be very people-oriented. See also: Capital Intensive, Trading Dollars tasks. These range from categorizing information by subject matter, to inserting hypertext links to related material, to profiling users based on the ideas in the text they read or write, to delivering information to those most likely to be interested. Autonomy (EASDAQ See European Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotation. :AUTN AUTN Autonomy (stock symbol) AUTN Authentication Token (3GPP) AUTN Authentication Token for Network ) was founded in 1996 and has offices in Boston, Chicago, Dallas, San Francisco San Francisco (săn frănsĭs`kō), city (1990 pop. 723,959), coextensive with San Francisco co., W Calif., on the tip of a peninsula between the Pacific Ocean and San Francisco Bay, which are connected by the strait known as the Golden , 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 , and Washington, D.C. in the United States as well as offices in Amsterdam, Brussels, Cambridge, England, Frankfurt, Milan, Paris, Oslo and Sydney. Among its 200-plus customers are Alcatel, Associated Press, Barclays Bank, British Aerospace, Clorox, News Corp., Procter &Gamble, Lucent Technologies, Merrill Lynch, SF Gate, Semi-tech, The Royal Mail, Unilever, and the United States Department of Defense. In addition, several software companies are licensing Autonomy's technology to add intelligence to their online publishing, knowledge management, email routing and document management applications, including OpenMarket, Aeneid, CoreChange, Delano, FutureTense, Hyperwave, Insight, Intraspect, KnowledgeTrack, Global Recall, Nexor, Sagemaker and Verge. On July 10, 1998, the company went public on the EASDAQ stock exchange. For further information, please contact Autonomy at (415) 243-9955 or visit the company's website at http://www.autonomy.com. 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