Casio and America Online Announce Agreement to Deliver AOL E-Mail Via Casio's Pocket PCs; AOL Will Make Programming Services Available on Casio Pocket PCs.Business/Technology Editors CES 2000 DOVER, N.J., and DULLES, Va.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 6, 2000 America Online See AOL. , Inc. (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange : AOL (A division of Time Warner, Inc., New York, NY, www.aol.com) The world's largest online information service with access to the Internet, e-mail, chat rooms and a variety of databases and services. ) the world's leading interactive services company, and CASIO Computer Co., Ltd., in conjunction with Casio, Inc., today announced an agreement that will enable AOL members to access their AOL email via Casio's CASSIOPEIA, the No. 1 selling WinCE line of Pocket PCs. The agreement calls for AOL and Casio to work to develop software that will allow AOL members to use the CASSIOPEIA Pocket PC to access, send and receive their AOL e-mail. Casio will distribute this software with its CASSIOPEIA line of Pocket PCs, which AOL will also make available for download from the AOL service. "We are pleased to be working with AOL to help users of the CASSIOPEIA Pocket PCs to be able to send and read their AOL email anywhere, at any time," said Gary Rado, President of Casio, Inc. "Casio is committed to developing new markets for personal multimedia products. Our strategy is to target the mobile needs that arise for personal computers, the Internet, and the rapid growth of mobile telecommunications markets and to give the consumer an extra benefit or feature in all of our products. As people become more dependent on being able to access important information no matter where they are, our agreement with AOL will help us give AOL members the ability to have quick and easy access to important information at all times." "Our agreement with Casio is an important example of how AOL is revolutionizing the way people communicate," said Barry Schuler Barry Martin Schuler (born September 7, 1953 in Jersey City, New Jersey) is American Internet pioneer, perhaps best known for making the Internet easy to use consumers while working for America Online for seven years, and being the CEO for three years. , AOL's President of Interactive Services. "With our AOL Anywhere strategy we are working to extend popular AOL applications to devices beyond the PC, and we think AOL members will further enjoy the convenience this agreement with Casio will bring." About America Online, Inc. Founded in 1985, America Online, Inc., based in Dulles, Virginia Dulles, Virginia is an unincorporated census-designated place located in Loudoun County, Virginia, part of the Washington Metropolitan Area. The headquarters of AOL, Orbital Sciences Corporation and ODIN technologies and the former headquarters of MCI Inc. are located in Dulles. , is the world's leader in interactive services, Web brands, Internet technologies, and e-commerce services. America Online, Inc. operates: two worldwide Internet services, America Online, with more than 19 million members, and CompuServe, with over 2 million members; several leading Internet brands including ICQ ("I Seek You") A conferencing program for the Internet from Mirabilis, Tel Aviv, Israel (www.icq.com). It provides interactive chat, e-mail and file transfer and can alert you when someone on your predefined list has also come online. and Digital City, Inc.; the Netscape Netcenter and AOL.COM portals; and the Netscape Navigator An earlier Web browser for Windows, Macintosh and X Windows from Netscape that provided secure transmission over the Internet. Soon after its introduction in 1994, Navigator, or just "Netscape," as it was commonly called, quickly became the leading browser on the Web. and Communicator browsers. Through its strategic alliance with Sun Microsystems Sun Microsystems, Inc. (NASDAQ: JAVA[3]) is an American vendor of computers, computer components, computer software, and information-technology services, founded on 24 February 1982. , the Company develops and offers easy-to-deploy, end-to-end e-commerce and enterprise solutions for companies operating in the Net Economy. About CASIO Casio Computer Co., Ltd., Tokyo, Japan, is one of the leading consumer electronics companies in the world. Since its establishment in 1957, Casio has been active in the development of electronic calculators, timepieces, musical instruments, digital cameras, LCD TVs A flat panel TV that uses LCD technology or a rear-projection TV that is based on LCD microdisplay panels. See flat panel TV, rear-projection TV and LCD. , wide range of communications devices and Handheld PCs. Casio's corporate activities are guided by the motto: "Creativity and Contribution." Visit Casio's global web site at http://www.casio.co.jp Casio, Inc., Dover, NJ, is the U.S. subsidiary of Casio Computer Co., Ltd., Tokyo, Japan. Casio, Inc., with sales over $450-million, markets calculators, watches, Palm-size PCs, business organizers, LCD TVs, electronic cash registers, digital imaging products and musical keyboards. Casio, the unexpected extra - for more information visit our web site at http://www.casio.com (1) (Computer Output Microfilm) Creating microfilm or microfiche from the computer. A COM machine receives print-image output from the computer either online or via tape or disk and creates a film image of each page. |
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