CNN Interactive news now available wirelessly with AirMedia Live.ATLANTA and NEWPORT BEACH Newport Beach, residential and resort city (1990 pop. 66,643), Orange co., S Calif., on Newport Bay and the Pacific Ocean; inc. 1906. It is a popular seaside resort and yachting center. Manufactures include electrical and medical equipment, computers, boats, and adhesives. , Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 19, 1997-- --CNN news wirelessly pushed to desktop and mobile computers; Stay informed at work or on the road -- CNN CNN or Cable News Network Subsidiary company of Turner Broadcasting Systems. It was created by Ted Turner in 1980 to present 24-hour live news broadcasts, using satellites to transmit reports from news bureaus around the world. , the world's news leader, and AirMedia, Inc., operator of the AirMedia Live Internet Broadcast Network, announced today that CNN Interactive(SM) news content is now available over AirMedia Live, the only wireless push information service. AirMedia and CNN Interactive have worked closely together to harness the strengths of CNN's vast, worldwide news gathering and reporting resources. As a result, AirMedia Live viewers receive constantly updated news reports and alerts that are wirelessly broadcast in real-time to desktop and mobile computers via AirMedia Live Internet antennas. AirMedia's CNN Interactive channel provides news in the following categories: national, world, science and technology, politics, sports and entertainment. AirMedia Live also broadcasts breaking news bulletins from CNN Interactive throughout the day. "CNN changed the way news and information are gathered and disseminated disseminated /dis·sem·i·nat·ed/ (-sem´i-nat?ed) scattered; distributed over a considerable area. dis·sem·i·nat·ed adj. Spread over a large area of a body, a tissue, or an organ. . AirMedia enhanced how people access and receive content and information from the Internet and online world," said Mark Bernstein, CNN Interactive vice president, business development. "By combining the strengths of both companies, we're able to open new doors in the world of information delivery and reach people via their computers in a completely new manner -- wirelessly." "We are committed to providing our customers timely and compelling news stories and important information that will help them stay on top of things in today's rapidly changing world and increase productivity," said John Payne, AirMedia president. "By delivering CNN Interactive's content using AirMedia Live's wireless push capability, we are helping computer users in both desktop and mobile environments keep up with what's happening no matter where they are." CNN Interactive provides news from around the world with the same accuracy, fairness and speed that viewers expect from all of CNN's news services. The division's products include: the CNN Interactive web sites, which receive more than 25 million page views per week; the CNN Interactive/PageNet pager news and information service, a groundbreaking alliance that delivers up-to-the-minute stories to alphanumeric alphanumeric (ăl'fən  mĕr`ĭk) or alphameric (ăl'fəmĕr`ĭk), the set of letters and numbers. pagers; and CNN Interactive Intercast programming, the most watched Intercast channel by a 2-to-1 margin. CNN Interactive's complete coverage of news, sports and weather is made possible by CNN's 31 bureaus and more than 3,500 experienced news professionals worldwide. AirMedia Live was awarded the prestigious Editors' Choice Awards for push technology by PC Magazine and Internet User Internet user n → internauta m/f Internet user Internet n → internaute m/f and was honored as a Premiere Product at InfoWorld's highly respected Demo '96 conference. It is also the 1996 Gold Medal gold medal traditional first prize. [Western Cult: Misc.] See : Prize winner of New Media Magazine's Invision Award for technical innovation and creative excellence in interactive multimedia, a CES Innovations '97 Award winner and was a finalist in the Software Publishers Association's (SPA) 1997 Codie Awards for best new software product of the year. AirMedia, Inc. develops and markets leading-edge 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. and push technology products and services that merge computing, the Internet and online services. The only company in the push technology arena with a wireless solution for delivering the best of the Internet's content to computer users, AirMedia's products and services are used by both consumers and professionals at home, on the road and in the office. The company's goal is to improve the way people access, receive and send information from the Internet and online world, or from an Intranet, in both desktop and mobile environments. AirMedia is a privately held company privately held company A firm whose shares are held within a relatively small circle of owners and are not traded publicly. , with offices in Newport Beach, CA and 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 , NY. The company also provides software solutions for paging, broadband and narrowband In communications, transmission rates up to T1 speeds (1.544 Mbps). The upper limit is moving target. At one time, narrowband meant 150 bps (that is 150 bits per second!). Then, the upper limit became 2,400 bps. Later, it moved to 64 Kbps. Contrast with wideband and broadband. personal communications systems In telecommunication, a communications system is a collection of individual communications networks, transmission systems, relay stations, tributary stations, and data terminal equipment (DTE) usually capable of interconnection and interoperation to form an integrated whole. (PCS (1) (Personal Communications Services) Refers to wireless services that emerged after the U.S. government auctioned commercial licenses in 1994 and 1995. This radio spectrum in the 1. ) and digital cellular networks through its Notify Products Group. More information is available at www.airmedia.com. -0- If you are interested in additional information on AirMedia, please visit the AirMedia Web site at www.airmedia.com, or call 1-800-AIR-MEDIA (1-800-247-6334). AirMedia, AirMedia Live and Ex Machina are trademarks or registered trademarks of AirMedia, Inc. AirMedia, Inc. was formerly known as Ex Machina, Inc. All other trademarks and brand names are properties of their respective owners. CONTACT: AirMedia, Inc. Sandra Sick, 714/737-5410 x251 sandras@corp.airmedia.com -or- Technology Solutions, Inc. Patricia Mozzillo, 212/696-2000 x252 pmozzillo@tsipr.com -or- CNN Interactive Kerrin Roberts, 404/827-5340 kerrin.roberts@turner.com |
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