Comet Systems Launches First Ever Desktop Cursor Application.Business Editors/Hi-Tech Writers NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 29, 2000 My Comet Cursor Comet Cursor was a software program manufactured by Comet Systems. It allowed users of Microsoft Windows Operating System to change the appearance of their mouse's cursor and to allow websites to use customized cursors for visitors. Lets PC Users Personalize Cursor From Their Desktop New Utility Launched With "Surfers Choice" Oscar Picks Comet Systems has released My Comet Cursor, the first desktop software application enabling Web surfers to designate a personal desktop cursor. To launch My Comet Cursor, the company has created "Surfer's Choice," which allows Web surfers the opportunity to vote for their favorite Oscar nominees by selecting a desktop cursor in the image of their favorite nominated best actor or best actress. Comet Systems' first product, the Comet Cursor, has been tremendously popular, allowing Websites to customize the cursors of their visitors and garnering 27 million unique users since its launch eighteen months ago. My Comet Cursor now extends this power from the Website to the Web surfer, allowing any user to designate their default cursor from a library of cursors sitting on their desktop. "Amazingly enough, 50,000 Websites are now using the Comet Cursor to personalize their pages. With My Comet Cursor, 50,000,000 Web surfers will get the same chance to personalize their Web experience," said Jamie Rosen, founder of Comet Systems and inventor of the Comet Cursor. "Surfer's Choice Oscar Picks is the perfect way for the everyday Internet user Internet user n → internauta m/f Internet user Internet n → internaute m/f to weigh in on the Oscar debate with a simple click." To select a "Surfer's Choice" cursor, PC users can go to http://www.mycometcursor.com, download My Comet Cursor, then choose from any available cursor. Available cursors include images of Russell Crowe, Richard Farnsworth Richard W. Farnsworth (September 1, 1920 – October 6, 2000) was an Academy Award-nominated American actor. Biography Early life Farnsworth was born in Los Angeles, California to a housewife mother and an engineer father. , Sean Penn, Kevin Spacey spac·ey adj. Slang Variant of spacy. Adj. 1. spacey - stupefied by (or as if by) some narcotic drug spaced-out, spacy unconventional - not conventional or conformist; "unconventional life styles" , Denzel Washington Denzel Hayes Washington, Jr. (born December 28, 1954) is a two-time Academy Award and Golden Globe Award-winning American actor and director. He has garnered much critical acclaim for his portrayals of several real-life figures, such as Steve Biko, Malcolm X, Rubin "Hurricane" , Annette Bening Annette Carol Bening (born May 29, 1958) is a Golden Globe-, BAFTA- and Screen Actors Guild Award-winning American actress. Biography Early life Bening was born in Topeka, Kansas, the daughter of Shirley and Grant Bening, an insurance salesman. , Janet McTeer Janet McTeer (born May 8, 1961) is an award-winning British actress from Newcastle upon Tyne, England. After graduating from the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts Janet McTeer began her successful theatrical career with the Royal Exchange Theatre. , Julianne Moore Julianne Moore (born December 3, 1960) is an Emmy Award-winning American actress. She has been nominated for four Academy Awards. Biography Early life Moore was born Julie Anne Smith in Fort Bragg, near Fayetteville, North Carolina,[] , Meryl Streep, and Hilary Swank. There is a library of hundreds of other images at My Comet Cursor, including cursors from United Media's Peanuts and Dilbert and Comedy Central's South Park. Surfer's Choice Oscar Picks will run from March 1st through March 26th. Comet Systems will record each cursor download and the company will announce the totals the week before the actual Oscars are awarded. Subscribers to CometZone will also be able to weigh in on the Surfer's Choice Oscar Picks by designating a specific nominee's cursor to serve from their own sites. CometZone (http://www.cometzone.com) is a free service that provides Web site owners with the ability to transform the "arrow" cursor on their Web site into any image found in the CometZone cursor library, including favorites such as Peanuts, Star Trek, Garfield, South Park, and many others. CometZone will feature a Surfer's Choice section, similar to the one at My Comet Cursor. About Comet Systems Comet Systems, Inc. (http://www.cometsystems.com) is the developer of the Comet Cursor, a patented rich media technology that lets Websites and Web advertisers broadcast a customized graphic or animation in place of the conventional "arrow" cursor. The Comet Cursor has been installed by more than twenty-seven million Web surfers and has built a reach of more than 20% of the Web surfing public. Nielsen/Netratings declared Comet Systems the second-fastest growing property on the entire Internet for 4Q1999, with unique visitors growing at 432.7% over the period. Cometsystems.com is consistently one of the top 200 domains on the entire World Wide Web as recorded by Media Metrix or by Nielsen//NetRatings. Comet Systems' technology is now used on over 50,000 Websites; licensees include Warner Bros BROS Brothers BROS Benefits and Retirement Operations Section (King County, Washington) BROS Barnes and Richmond Operatic Society (London, UK) . Online, AT&T WorldNet, Comedy Central, Mattel, Universal Studios Online, and Paramount Digital Entertainment. Comet Systems introduced the Cometized Banner(TM), a new form of online advertising, in 1999. BellSouth, Warner Bros., Energizer, AT&T, IBM (International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY, www.ibm.com) The world's largest computer company. IBM's product lines include the S/390 mainframes (zSeries), AS/400 midrange business systems (iSeries), RS/6000 workstations and servers (pSeries), Intel-based servers (xSeries) , and MSNBC MSNBC Microsoft/National Broadcasting Company have run Cometized Banner campaigns at Yahoo!, AltaVista, theglobe.com, Cartoon Network, Comedy Central, Nickelodeon, and Lycos. Resellers of the Cometized Banner include 24/7 Media, Flycast, and AdKnowledge. Comet Systems raised $7 Million in July, 1999, a second round led by Scripps Ventures, with follow-on investors MacAndrews & Forbes Holdings, PS Capital Ventures, Hudson Venture Partners L.P., Advantage Capital, Carlin car·line or car·lin n. Scots A woman, especially an old one. [Middle English kerling, from Old Norse, from karl, man.] Ventures, and Value Capital L.P. Comet Systems raised $2.5 Million in 1997 from Prospect Street Ventures and Bob Lessin. The 50-person company was founded in 1997 and is headquartered in New York's Silicon Alley. For more information, contact Ben Austin at 212/231-2000 ext. 103 or marketing@cometsystems.com. |
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