Business Week Offers Free email; World's Leading Business Magazine Joins CommTouch to Provide Free, Lifetime email Accounts on the Internet.NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 28, 1998--Business Week, the world's best-selling best·sell·er also best seller n. A product, such as a book, that is among those sold in the largest numbers. best business magazine, has partnered with leading email provider CommTouch Software to offer free email accounts email account email n → compte m (e-)mail at the Business Week Web site (http://www.businessweek.com). Business people can now conveniently check their email in-box whenever they visit Business Week Online to read the latest business news and financial information. New visitors can register online to establish their free, private email address See Internet address. of username The name you use to identify yourself when logging into a computer system or online service. Both a username (user ID) and a password are required. In an Internet e-mail address, the username is the left part before the @ sign. For example, KARENB is the username in karenb@mycompany. @BusinessWeekMail.com. The Business Week Online Web site is a comprehensive Internet destination that offers business people the latest financial data, career advice and job listings, travel reservations, investment insights, as well as Business Week's award winning editorial content. With a free Business Week email account, busy executives can now send and receive email when they visit the Business Week Web site for their daily news briefing. "Every survey tells us that time is the rarest commodity for business people today," said Business Week Online general manager David Smith. "By offering email on the Web site where our readers go for business news every day, we enable busy executives to complete two daily and essential tasks at the same time." Because email messages are securely stored at the Business Week Online Web site, people can easily check their email through the browser browser Software that allows a computer user to find and view information on the Internet. The first text-based browser for the World Wide Web became available in 1991; Web use expanded rapidly after the release in 1993 of a browser called Mosaic, which used on any computer in the world that is connected to the Internet -- at a client's office, at the airport, at a cyber (1) From "cybernetics," it is a prefix attached to everyday words to add a computer, electronic or online connotation. The term is similar to "virtual," but the latter is used more frequently. See virtual. cafe or at the library. Road warriors
The Road Warriors were a professional wrestling tag team famously comprised of Michael "Hawk" Hegstrand and Joseph "Animal" Laurinaitis, though other members will no longer have to lug (1) (Linux Users Group) A formal or informal organization of Linux users who gather together virtually or in person to exchange information and resources. Some groups maintain mailing lists and send out newsletters for their members. their laptops with them everywhere simply to stay in email contact. The flexible email service See Internet e-mail service. provided by CommTouch also allows users to forward all of their email messages from multiple accounts to a single, highly accessible Business Week mailbox A simulated mailbox in the computer that holds e-mail messages. Mailboxes are stored on disk as a file of messages, a database of messages or as an individual file for each message. The standard mailboxes are usually In, Out, Trash and Junk (Spam). . "Email has become the business executive's most potent communication tool," explained CommTouch president Isabel Maxwell. "Millions of loyal Business Week readers can now have unlimited access to email from an established and trusted source." The Business Week partnership supports CommTouch's strategy of delivering second generation email and personal communication technologies through widely visited consumer Web sites. More than 6 million readers rely on Business Week to deliver the latest business news every week. About CommTouch CommTouch is the leading provider of partner-branded email software, offered exclusively in partnership with major online consumer brand marketers and media outlets. The CommTouch email interface is totally customizable to enhance brand awareness and customer affinity relationships. The company partners with internationally recognized consumer-driven organizations, including Discovery Channel Online, Nippon Telephone & Telegraph telegraph, term originally applied to any device or system for distant communication by means of visible or audible signals, now commonly restricted to electrically operated devices. Attempts at long-distance communication date back thousands of years (see signaling). , Hachette Multimedia, animalhouse.com, The Headbone Zone and The Jerusalem Post. With more than seven years of delivering intuitive, award-winning email software, and with over 4 million satisfied users, CommTouch offers its partners a comprehensive turn-key email service. The company's president is Isabel Maxwell. Additional information about CommTouch can be obtained at its Web site (http://www.commtouch.com). Founded in 1991, CommTouch is headquartered in Silicon Valley, Calif., and has a major research & development center in Ein Vered, Israel. About Business Week Business Week is the world's largest business magazine. It has a worldwide circulation of over 1,000,000 and is read by 6.7 million people each week. In 1994 and 1996 Business Week received the National Magazine Award for General Excellence, the magazine industry equivalent to the Pulitzer Prize Pulitzer Prize Any of a series of annual prizes awarded by Columbia University for outstanding public service and achievement in American journalism, letters, and music. Fellowships are also awarded. . The goal of the Business Week Online Web site (http://www.businessweek.com) is to provide the same high-quality business news, analysis and features that Business Week Magazine delivers to its print readers.
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