BellSouth Selects Cyveillance For e-Business Intelligence Services; Latest Win Adds to Cyveillance's Growing List of Telecom Customers.ARLINGTON, Va.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 21, 1999-- Cyveillance(TM), a leading provider of e-Business Intelligence, announced today that BellSouth has purchased its e-Business Intelligence services and joins the company's growing list of telecom customers, which also includes Bell Atlantic and Sprint. Cyveillance specializes in providing corporate clients with critical market feedback from the Internet. The company's e-Business Intelligence Suite includes competitive, strategic, image and legal services legal services n. the work performed by a lawyer for a client. that focus helping clients understand how sites across the Internet are impacting return on their e-Business investment. Clients in the telecommunications Communicating information, including data, text, pictures, voice and video over long distance. See communications. industry are working with Cyveillance primarily to track issues such as misuse of intellectual property. In particular, Cyveillance uses it's NetSapien(TM) technology to identify Web sites leveraging a telecom company's name for their own financial gain. Thousands of sites across the Internet claiming or implying relationships by: illegally using company logos; using these companies' names in metatags, links and hidden/visible text; making false claims about sponsorships or other endorsements; Cyber Squatting squatting /squat·ting/ (skwaht´ing) a position with hips and knees flexed, the buttocks resting on the heels; sometimes adopted by the parturient at delivery or by children with certain types of cardiac defects. ; and linking to these companies' Web sites without authorization The right or permission to use a system resource; the process of granting access. See access control. . All of this activity is intended to divert di·vert v. di·vert·ed, di·vert·ing, di·verts v.tr. 1. To turn aside from a course or direction: Traffic was diverted around the scene of the accident. 2. eyeballs--or traffic--from potential customers searching the Web for a particular company, product or service. Such activity ultimately results in lost revenue opportunities and brand dilution for Cyveillance clients. "The rapid growth of the Internet is raising many new business issues for telecom companies, including not only how we deliver our services, but also how our intellectual property is used," said Sandy Evans, vice president and general counsel of BellSouth Intellectual Property Management Corporation. "We are using Cyveillance's e-Business Intelligence as part of our overall trademark protection program." The key to Cyveillance's e-Business Intelligence Suite is NetSapien(TM), a technology that functions like a human (hence its name), but moves at the speed of the Internet. NetSapien scours scour, scours 1. the chemical and physical cleaning of fleece wool. 2. diarrhea. dietetic scour see dietary diarrhea. peat scour see secondary nutritional copper deficiency. the Internet at high speeds to locate information that meets customer-defined business criteria. NetSapien doesn't just look for URLs or key words, however, it searches like a human would, actually looking inside Web sites, pages and 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). postings to provide in-depth information about the intent, content and meaning of each site, page and posting. Then, NetSapien analyzes and prioritizes the data, working in conjunction with our experienced e-Business Analysts, to provide our clients with relevant, actionable Giving sufficient legal grounds for a lawsuit; giving rise to a Cause of Action. An act, event, or occurrence is said to be actionable when there are legal grounds for basing a lawsuit on it. information. About BellSouth BellSouth is a $24 billion communications services company. It provides telecommunications, wireless communications wireless communications System using radio-frequency, infrared, microwave, or other types of electromagnetic or acoustic waves in place of wires, cables, or fibre optics to transmit signals or data. , cable and digital TV, directory advertising and publishing and Internet and data services to nearly 35 million customers in 19 countries worldwide. For more information on BellSouth, visit www.bellsouth.com. About Cyveillance Named one of Digital South magazine's "Top 50 Companies to Watch in 1999," Cyveillance is a leading provider of e-Business Intelligence. The privately held company privately held company A firm whose shares are held within a relatively small circle of owners and are not traded publicly. , founded in 1997, helps major corporations, organizations and select government agencies manage their e-Business strategies by providing critical market feedback from the Internet. The company's e-Business Intelligence Suite includes competitive, strategic, image and legal services that focus on helping clients understand how sites across the Internet are impacting their businesses. Using client-driven business criteria, Cyveillance combines its powerful NetSapien technology with experienced e-Business Analysts to find and prioritize pri·or·i·tize v. pri·or·i·tized, pri·or·i·tiz·ing, pri·or·i·tiz·es Usage Problem v.tr. To arrange or deal with in order of importance. v.intr. sites of greatest business impact to its clients. Cyveillance clients include leaders in the computer, financial, automotive, publishing, music, motion picture, apparel, pharmaceutical and telecommunications industries. For additional information on Cyveillance, visit www.cyveillance.com. |
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