Children's Hospital of Philadelphia Hosts Live Internet Videochat With Santa.News/Assignment Editors NASHUA, N.H. & PHILADELPHIA--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec. 14, 2000 CUseeMe Networks Partners with Children's Hospitals This is a list of children's hospitals. See also Pediatric Care. International
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U.S. to Enable Children to Videochat and Share their Christmas Lists with Santa Online CUseeMe Networks (NASDAQ NASDAQ in full National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations U.S. market for over-the-counter securities. Established in 1971 by the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD), NASDAQ is an automated quotation system that reports on : CUSM CUSM Cisco Usable Square Meters ), the leading provider of voice and visual communications solutions for the Internet, today announced that it will bring Santa to hospitalized children at The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia is one of the largest and oldest children's hospitals in the world. "CHOP" has been ranked as the best children's hospital in the United States by U.S. News & World Report and Child Magazine in recent years. live via the Internet on December 14. CUseeMe has partnered with children's hospitals from across the U.S. to make this special engagement for Santa possible. In its second year, the goal of the Santa project is to allow children who can't get to the mall and sit on Santa's lap to still have the opportunity to see and talk with him before Christmas. To participate in the interactive videochat over the Internet, Santa and the hospitals will use CUseeMe Web technology, which enables live audio, video and text chat to be embedded within a standard PC Web browser The program that serves as your front end to the Web on the Internet. In order to view a site, you type its address (URL) into the browser's Location field; for example, www.computerlanguage.com, and the home page of that site is downloaded to you. . All of the hospitals will be linked together in a group Internet videoconference with Santa. "We are very excited to be bringing Santa to our kids in such a unique way." said Teri Winston, Child Life Therapist at The Children's Hospital A children's hospital is a hospital which offers its services exclusively to children. The number of children's hospitals proliferated in the 20th century, as pediatric medical and surgical specialties separated from internal medicine and adult surgical specialties. of Philadelphia. "The holidays are a tough time to be hospitalized. The videochat is a unique and fun activity for the kids to experience the holiday spirit." The videochat with Santa will take place Thursday, December 14th at 12:00 p.m. EST. Hospitals participating with The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia include MassGeneral Hospital for Children and University of Chicago Children's Hospital. Santa will be able to see each of the children in his Web browser and talk with them individually. The children will take turns sharing their Christmas lists with Santa, asking questions about the reindeer reindeer, ruminant mammal, genus Rangifer, of the deer family, found in arctic and subarctic regions of Eurasia and North America. It is the only deer in which both sexes have antlers. and elves, and chatting with the children at other hospitals. About CUseeMe Networks CUseeMe Networks puts businesses and consumers face-to-face by developing and hosting innovative solutions for interactive voice and visual communications over the Internet. The company's groundbreaking CUseeMe Web technology enables live audio, video, and collaboration capabilities to be embedded in a standard Web page for applications such as visual instant messaging Exchanging text messages in real time between two or more people logged into a particular instant messaging (IM) service. Instant messaging is more interactive than e-mail because messages are sent immediately, whereas e-mail messages can be queued up in a mail server for seconds or , Internet videochat, face-to-face e-commerce, and dynamic Web-based conferencing. Information about CUseeMe Networks can be found on the web at http://www.cuseeme.com. All trademarks are recognized. |
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