Baseline Sports Selects EasyLink's Integrated Desktop Messaging for Rapid and Reliable Document Delivery; Solutions Enable Efficient Communication With Outside Sales Force.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers EDISON, N.J.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 19, 2003 EasyLink Services Corporation (Nasdaq:EASY), a leading global provider of services that power the exchange of information between enterprises, their trading communities and their customers, today announced that Baseline Sports, Inc. has selected EasyLink's Integrated Desktop Messaging to enhance communication lines with its outside sales force, accounting department and customers. Baseline Sports, a full service distributor of trading cards, die cast collectibles, racing apparel, autographed au·to·graph n. 1. A person's own signature or handwriting. 2. A manuscript in the author's handwriting. tr.v. au·to·graphed, au·to·graph·ing, au·to·graphs 1. memorabilia mem·o·ra·bil·i·a pl.n. 1. Objects valued for their connection with historical events, culture, or entertainment: posters, publicity photographs, and other movie memorabilia. 2. , games and other collectibles, regularly processes purchase orders, invoices and other transaction-based documents with a fairly large sales force in the field. EasyLink's solutions provide an efficient, universal line of communication with Baseline's customers and employees. EasyLink's Integrated Desktop Messaging solutions, including E-Mail to Fax, Fax to E-Mail and PC to Fax services, enable users to send or receive transactions as faxes directly from their desktop workstations. Baseline Sports has specifically implemented EasyLink's E-Mail to Fax and Fax to E-mail Services See Internet e-mail service. . The field representatives and outside sales force are able to fax in orders to the main office that are received as e-mails. At the same time, the accounting department at Baseline is able to e-mail all purchase orders, invoices and other transaction-based documents to be received in a fax format. EasyLink's Integrated Desktop Messaging offers the following benefits for enterprises: -- Improved workforce efficiency and productivity resulting from the elimination of workflow disruption; -- Elimination of fax servers; -- Elimination of the technology risk inherent to using proprietary solutions; and -- The ability to move from paper-intensive to electronic documents with ease. Gary L. Roberson, CPA (Computer Press Association, Landing, NJ) An earlier membership organization founded in 1983 that promoted excellence in computer journalism. Its annual awards honored outstanding examples in print, broadcast and electronic media. The CPA disbanded in 2000. , Vice President/Controller at Baseline Sports, Inc., noted, "We needed an automated au·to·mate v. au·to·mat·ed, au·to·mat·ing, au·to·mates v.tr. 1. To convert to automatic operation: automate a factory. 2. solution that would enable fast, efficient communication with our employees, customers and vendors regardless of what technology they have available. The communications are often time-sensitive, making rapid and reliable delivery essential. EasyLink's Integrated Desktop Messaging Services have met all of these requirements." "As more companies move toward e-mail as a primary method of communication, we have to consider the need to integrate the use of fax machines and e-mail systems throughout business. Even though documents can be facilitated more quickly, efficiently and cost effectively via electronic means, some processes still require the use of paper-driven faxes," said Bill Fallon, Vice President of Product Marketing at EasyLink. About EasyLink Services Corporation EasyLink Services Corporation (NASDAQ: EASY), headquartered in Edison, New Jersey Edison Township (usually known as Edison) is a township in Middlesex County, New Jersey, United States. As of the United States 2000 Census, the township had a total population of 97,687, making it at the time the fifth largest municipality in New Jersey. As of the U.S. , is a leading global provider of services that power the exchange of information between enterprises, their trading communities, and their customers. EasyLink's networks facilitate transactions that are integral to the movement of money, materials, products, and people in the global economy, such as insurance claims, trade and travel confirmations, purchase orders, invoices, shipping notices and funds transfers, among many others. EasyLink helps more than 20,000 companies, including over 400 of the Global 500, become more competitive by providing the most secure, efficient, reliable, and flexible means of conducting business electronically. For more information, please visit http://www.EasyLink.com. About Baseline Sports, Inc. Baseline Sports, headquartered in Norfolk, Virginia Norfolk is an independent city in the Commonwealth of Virginia, in the United States of America. With a population of 234,403 as of the 2000 census, Norfolk is Virginia's second-largest incorporated city. , is a master distributor of cards, collectibles, die-cast and games, and has been in business since 1985. Baseline Sports also has an office in North Carolina North Carolina, state in the SE United States. It is bordered by the Atlantic Ocean (E), South Carolina and Georgia (S), Tennessee (W), and Virginia (N). Facts and Figures Area, 52,586 sq mi (136,198 sq km). Pop. and distribution centers in Jacksonville, Florida “Jacksonville” redirects here. For other uses, see Jacksonville (disambiguation). Jacksonville is the largest city in the state of Florida and the county seat of Duval County. and Cleveland, Ohio "Cleveland" redirects here. For the Cleveland metropolitan area, see . For other uses, see Cleveland (disambiguation). Cleveland is a city in the U.S. state of Ohio and the county seat of Cuyahoga County, the most populous county in the state. . For more information, please visit http://www.blsports.com. This news release may contain statements of a forward-looking nature relating to relating to relate prep → concernant relating to relate prep → bezüglich +gen, mit Bezug auf +acc the future events or the future financial results of EasyLink. Investors are cautioned that such statements are only predictions and that actual events or results may differ materially. In evaluating such statements, investors should specifically consider the various factors which could cause actual events or results to differ materially from those indicated from such forward-looking statements forward-looking statement A projected financial statement based on management expectations. A forward-looking statement involves risks with regard to the accuracy of assumptions underlying the projections. , including the matters set forth in the Company's reports and documents filed from time to time with the Securities and Exchange Commission. |
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