CD Line and Sumeria Inc. Announce Agreement.SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 6, 1996--CD Line, S.p.A., an independent distribution and publishing company based in Milan, Italy, and Sumeria Inc., an independent publishing company based in 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 , announce a marketing and development relationship. Included in the agreement are three of Sumeria's award-winning series of CD ROM CD ROM Compact Disk Read Only Memory titles, including Wild Africa Wild Africa is a BBC nature documentary series exploring the natural history of the African continent, first transmitted in the UK on BBC2 in November 2001. , OceanLife, and Exploring Ancient Cities. In addition to the near term release of titles for Windows, Windows 95, and Macintosh operating system (operating system) Macintosh Operating System - (Mac OS) Apple Computer, Inc.'s proprietary operating system for their Macintosh family of personal computers. The part of the operating system that simulates the desktop is called "Finder. based computers, the companies will collaborate on several cutting-edge products which use MPEG (Moving Pictures Experts Group) An ISO/ITU standard for compressing digital video. Pronounced "em-peg," it is the universal standard for digital terrestrial, cable and satellite TV, DVDs and digital video recorders (DVRs). technology, Digital Video Disk (DVD DVD: see digital versatile disc. DVD in full digital video disc or digital versatile disc Type of optical disc. The DVD represents the second generation of compact-disc (CD) technology. ), and internet distribution technology. Aldo Sansone, Managing Director of the Italian company says that "CD Line and Sumeria have worked together for several years. Sumeria's ongoing development of high quality titles has convinced us that Sumeria can be an important part of CD Lines new efforts in multimedia publishing". CD Line will release its first four products, fully localized for the Italian market in the July 1996 timeframe including: Exploring the Lost Maya, Wild Africa, and OceanLife volumes III and IV. CD Line was founded in 1994 by Aldo Sansone with the mission to sell and distribute multimedia products on CD ROM for the Italian market. By 1995 CD Line supported 330 stores in Italy through telemarketing; In 1995 CD Line started a Sales Network that covers the entire Italian market and all distribution channels: Music Stores, Video Stores, Video Game Stores, and other distributors. Sumeria's founder, Jerry Borrell is "pleased to establish this new aspect of our longstanding relationship with CD Line and to be a part of CD Line's growth in the Italian market. CD Line is a reputable, fast-growing company with which we are proud to be associated." The agreement includes distribution, marketing, advertising, trade-show representation, direct sales, and other collaborative efforts in Italian markets for IBM compatible (computer) IBM compatible - A computer which can use hardware and software designed for the IBM PC (or, less often, IBM mainframes). This was once a key phrase in marketing a new PC clone but now in 1998 is rarely used, the non-IBM wintel personal computer manufacturers such and Macintosh computers. CONTACT: CD Line Aldo Sansone, 011-392-89405533 or Sumeria, San Francisco Jerry Borrell, 415-904-0800 |
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