CYBERsitter filters pornography for Worldwide Online Internet service customers.SANTA BARBARA Santa Barbara (săn'tə bär`brə, –bərə), city (1990 pop. 85,571), seat of Santa Barbara co., S Calif., on the Pacific Ocean; inc. 1850. , Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 18, 1996--Solid Oak Software Inc. has announced that it has entered into an agreement with Worldwide Online Corp., Toronto, to include CYBERsitter Lite, an easy-to-use Windows program that filters adult-oriented material and pornography pornography Depiction of erotic behaviour intended to cause sexual excitement. The word originally signified any work of art or literature depicting the life of prostitutes. on the Internet, with its Internet service. "We chose CYBERsitter because we provide a simple and affordable Internet access See how to access the Internet. for our customers as our primary business objective, and it meets this criteria," said Stan Krupinski, vice president marketing of Worldwide Online. Worldwide Online offers very reasonable service packages for home users. A better solution than censorship, "CYBERsitter can both filter and monitor objectionable Internet World Wide Web sites, newsgroups This is a list of newsgroups that are significant for their popularity or their position in Usenet history. As of October 2002, there are about 100,000 Usenet newsgroups, of which approximately a fifth are active. , chat lines, FTP sites A server on the Internet that maintains files for downloading. An FTP site may be one or more servers or just one or two folders dedicated to file transfer on a single server. See FTP and anonymous FTP. , incoming and outgoing e-mail, and file downloads," said Marc Kanter, vice president of Solid Oak Software. CYBERsitter can optionally keep a secret log of every Internet site that is visited, thus making it easy for the parent, teacher or employer to see exactly what the individual is doing. Newly recognized offensive Internet sites are regularly added to the "filter file" by Solid Oak and can be automatically updated by the user. Free, full-working, 10-day trial versions of CYBERsitter are available for download from Solid Oak Software's Web site at http://www.solidoak.com or in the CompuServe forum (GO SOLIDOAK). CYBERsitter retails for $39.95 and is also available in many stores or directly from Solid Oak Software. It can be ordered by calling 800/388-2761 or 805/967-9853. Solid Oak Software is a six-year-old company specializing in the business of developing, publishing and marketing computer software for the home, school and business. A strong emphasis is in providing OEM (Original Equipment Manufacturer) The rebranding of equipment and selling it. The term initially referred to the company that made the products (the "original" manufacturer), but eventually became widely used to refer to the organization that buys the products and software for Internet service providers Internet service provider (ISP) Company that provides Internet connections and services to individuals and organizations. For a monthly fee, ISPs provide computer users with a connection to their site (see data transmission), as well as a log-in name and password. , and hardware and software manufacturers. -0- NOTE: Kanter and Krupinski are available for interviews. CONTACT: Marc Kanter, Vice President Solid Oak Software Inc. P.O. Box 6826 Santa Barbara, Calif. 93160 805/967-9853, ext. 55 E-mail: mkanter@solidoak.com or Stan Krupinski Worldwide Online Corp. 36 Toronto St., Suite 250 Toronto, Ontario M5C 2C5 416/214-6416 E-mail: gyrfalcn@wwonline.com |
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