Comcast selects Intersphere to develop advertiser web sites.BLUE BELL, Pa. and PHILADELPHIA--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 25, 1997-- Intersphere Communications Ltd. was named today by Philadelphia-based Comcast Cablevision as a preferred vendor to integrate Intersphere's web development capabilities with the Comcast@home Internet program for the Philadelphia market and surrounding suburbs. As a result, Comcast will offer Philadelphia-based advertisers value-added web sites to be hosted within the Comcast@home Philadelphia-area web site located on the WWW WWW or W3: see World Wide Web. (World Wide Web) The common host name for a Web server. The "www-dot" prefix on Web addresses is widely used to provide a recognizable way of identifying a Web site. at http://www.inphiladelphia.com . The web site is a World Wide Web-oriented "community" that offers information covering arts, dining, health, real estate, business, education, marketplace, sports, community, entertainment, news, and travel on a local and national scale. "Comcast's broadband, fiber optic Internet connection via cable modems is the next logical step in increasing the speed and quality of Internet connectivity," said Jeffery Erb, vice president of Intersphere. "Our preferred selection will enable Intersphere to provide high quality web sites to Comcast advertisers using the most advanced web development techniques at an affordable cost." The agreement calls for Intersphere to provide efficient, economic, and creative mechanisms for Comcast advertisers to reach customers via the Internet. Web site components and services available to advertisers to be developed by Intersphere include graphic development, HTML HTML in full HyperText Markup Language Markup language derived from SGML that is used to prepare hypertext documents. Relatively easy for nonprogrammers to master, HTML is the language used for documents on the World Wide Web. coding, E-mail capabilities, Real Audio, QuickTime Video & VR and other Internet plug-ins such as Java and Shockwave. Filemon Lopez, Comcast's senior vice president of Advertising Sales, said, "Intersphere has a proven record in the development of quality Web sites in the Philadelphia marketplace. This level of quality makes them a valuable resource for Comcast as it develops this exciting new Internet opportunity for its' advertisers." Intersphere Communications Ltd. is a full-service advertising agency that emphasizes the use of the Internet as a creative, communication medium. Company information can be found at their WWW site at http://www.intersphere.com/ . Intersphere Communications Ltd. is a wholly owned subsidiary Wholly Owned Subsidiary A subsidiary whose parent company owns 100% of its common stock. Notes: In other words, the parent company owns the company outright and there are no minority owners. of Interactive Gaming and Communications Corp., a publicly traded company publicly traded company A company whose shares of common stock are held by the public and are available for purchase by investors. The shares of publicly traded firms are bought and sold on the organized exchanges or in the over-the-counter market. on the OTC Bulletin Board OTC Bulletin Board An electronic quotation listing of the bid and asked prices of OTC stocks that do not meet the requirements to be listed on the NASDAQ stock-listing system. under the ticker symbol Ticker Symbol An arrangement of characters (usually letters) representing a particular security listed on an exchange or otherwise traded publicly. When a company issues securities to the public marketplace, it selects an available ticker symbol for its securities which investors SBET SBET Small Business Economic Trends . Comcast Corp. is principally engaged in the development, management and operation of wired telecommunications including cable television and telephone services; wireless telecommunications including cellular, personal communications services See PCS. and direct-to-home satellite television, and content through principal ownership of QVC QVC Quality Value Convenience QVC Question Valid Command , the world's premier electronic retailer, through C3 (Comcast Content & Communications), through majority ownership of Comcast-Spectacor and controlling interest in E! Entertainment and through other programming investments. The company's consolidated and affiliated operations serve over ten million customers worldwide. -0- URL's: Intersphere Communications Ltd. http://www.intersphere.com/ Comcast@home (Philadelphia-area) http://www.inphiladelphia.com CONTACT: Intersphere Communications Ltd. Mark Farish, 215/540-8175, fax: 215/540-8176 |
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