Computer Concepts announces major step in its Internet Directory Assistance (IDA) System.BOHEMIA, N.Y.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 26, 1996--Computer Concepts Corp. (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 :CCEE CCEE Conseil des Conférences Episcopales Européennes (Switzerland) CCEE Câmara de Comercialização de Energia Elétrica CCEE Consilium Conferentiarum Episcoporum Europae (Council of European Bishops' Conferences) ) today announced that it has completed the development of its Address Registration Tool for its Internet service, IDA Ida (ē`dä), city (1990 pop. 91,859), Nagano prefecture, central Honshu, Japan, on the Tenryu River. It is an agricultural market and railway junction. (TM) (Internet Directory Assistance). This Internet service was developed with the company's patented d.b. Express(TM) data access technology which is currently being marketed along with Perot Systems Perot Systems Corporation NYSE: PER is an information technology services provider based in Plano, Texas. Peter Altabef has served as president, chairman, and chief executive officer since 2004. Corp. of Dallas. Computer Concepts' patented d.b.Express(TM) indexing and graphical user interface graphical user interface (GUI) Computer display format that allows the user to select commands, call up files, start programs, and do other routine tasks by using a mouse to point to pictorial symbols (icons) or lists of menu choices on the screen as opposed to having to will allow for instantaneous direct access by name or subject matter to registered on-line service addresses as opposed to the usage of traditional time consuming response/size dependent search methods. The company believes that its technology is the only viable method of solving the magnitude of the Internet directory problem because of its ability to instantaneously access the huge amounts of data which will be resident in the indexed database. As recently proven to one of the nation's largest long distance carriers, d.b.Express has the ability to access millions of telephone call records with instantaneous response, and will be able to do the same with its Internet Directory Assistance database. Computer Concepts believes that its patented d.b.Express technology, with bit-mapped indexes and integral graphic user access utilities, separates and distinguishes it from the search engines and other information access methods currently being used. The company believes its technology is the road to the future and could become the predominant access method for Information Systems, both personal and commercial, found on, and off, the Internet. Further information to be released regarding the company's strategic partner on the Internet project. Computer Concepts Corp. develops and markets software tools, including its d.b.Express(TM) software, that assist computer end-users in accessing data otherwise difficult to retrieve. Its Softworks subsidiary develops and markets programs for the IBM mainframe IBM mainframes, though perceived as synonymous with mainframe computers in general due to their marketshare, are now technically and specifically IBM's line of business computers that can all trace their design evolution to the IBM System/360. market that enhance the reliability, accessibility and capabilities in the mainframe operating environment In computing, an operating environment is the environment in which users run programs, whether in a command line interface, such as in MS-DOS or the Unix shell, or in a graphical user interface, such as in the Macintosh operating system. . The MapLinx Corp. subsidiary focuses on PC Geographic Information Systems (GIS) interfaces for end user applications. Information regarding d.b.Express can be obtained by accessing the d.b.Express Worldwide Web server at http://www.pb.net/~dbexpress -0- NOTE TO EDITORS: In the World Wide Web address noted in the last paragraph of the above news release, there is a tilde A symbol used in Windows, starting with Windows 95, that maintains a short version of a long file or directory name for compatibility with Windows 3.1 and DOS. For example, the short version of a file named "Letter to Joe" would be LETTER~1. Then "Letter to Pat" becomes LETTER~2. between the / and dbexpress. This symbol may not appear properly in some systems. d.b. Express is a trademark of Computer Concepts Corp. All rights reserved. Other brand names are trademarks or registered trademarks of their holders. CONTACT: Leigh Shanks, 516/244-1500 Mark Kabbash, 212/551-7825 |
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