College Club Goes International; Company Launches Service into Canada and Europe.SAN DIEGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 19, 1999--College Club (www.collegeclub.com), the world's largest and fastest growing online college community, Tuesday announced the company's international expansion into Canada and Europe. In response to a tremendous demand by universities and students for communication services around the world, College Club has opened regional offices in Toronto and Vancouver, Canada; London; and Paris. "Providing communication tools and building community among college students online is the core of our business," said Michael Pousti Michael C. Pousti is an American businessman. Pousti currently is chairman and chief executive officer of SMS.ac, a mobile social data-communication company with more than 40 million members.[1] SMS.ac claims to be adding as many as 750,000 customers each month. , chief executive officer and president of College Club. "It is a natural expansion for us to offer our community and communication services to all of the students in Canada and in Europe." College Club offers a free unified messaging Having access to e-mail, voice mail and faxes via a common computer application or by telephone. For example, unified messaging may send faxes and digitized voice mail to a mail server that turns them into e-mail attachments. system to all users. The system offers free e-mail See Internet e-mail service. , free voice-mail and the ability to check e-mail via the telephone. It also enables users to access the members in specific groups via the telephone, facilitating greater communication for campus-based clubs and organizations. College Club also has added a paging service to its existing free voice- and e-mail services See Internet e-mail service. , enabling members to be paged when they receive new e-mail. Localized Translated into the spoken language of the country. See localization. community services offer individual campuses the opportunity to easily create and maintain their own campus intranet for individuals, groups and organizations on campus. In other news, College Club Tuesday unveiled the redesign re·de·sign tr.v. re·de·signed, re·de·sign·ing, re·de·signs To make a revision in the appearance or function of. re of its site to include enhanced community and unified messaging features. In addition to an entirely new look and feel, College Club now offers its registered members added functionality and additional phone capabilities. "Our redesign reflects our commitment to continually expand and enhance our features to facilitate better communication among our members on more than 4,000 U.S. and now Canadian and European campuses," said Pousti. Founded in 1993, College Club is the world's largest online college community. Located at www.collegeclub.com, College Club is the only college portal that affords students across the country free unified messaging services. Focused on college students, the Web site also offers a unique online community encouraging online chats, campus groups, personal hobby A hobby is a spare-time recreational pursuit. Origin of term A hobby-horse was a wooden or wickerwork toy made to be ridden just like the real hobby. From this came the expression "to ride one's hobby-horse", meaning "to follow a favourite pastime", and in turn, and interest clubs, nationwide discounts and much more. Used as a virtual intranet, College Club's integrated network A network that supports both data and voice and/or different networking protocols. See converged network and new public network. can also be used by student organizations and groups for communication purposes. |
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