CondeNet Renews Agreement To License Digital Courier's WeatherLabs; Epicurious Travel Weather Services Available Through Year 2000.SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 7, 1998--Digital Courier Technologies Inc. (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 :DCTI DCTI Consonus Technologies (Cary, NC; stock symbol) DCTI Digital Courier Technologies Inc. DCTI Datacentre Technologies and Infrastructure (UK) ) and CondeNet (a division of Advanced Publications Inc.) Wednesday announced that customized weather services provided by Digital Courier's WeatherLabs division will be available through the year 2000 as part of CondeNet's popular Epicurious Travel Web site. CondeNet has obtained its Internet-based weather from WeatherLabs since 1996. "CondeNet is one of WeatherLabs' premier customers, and I'm very happy that they have chosen to renew their license agreement with us for another two years," stated Brendan Lane Larson, senior vice president of Digital Courier and head of WeatherLabs. "Customer retention and the quality of our product is a high priority at WeatherLabs. It's terrific to see that CondeNet is a happy customer, and I expect that the Epicurious Weather Station will continue to be a popular place to surf on the Web," added Larson. Epicurious Travel (http://travel.epicurious.com) is the premier destination for travelers seeking reliable and detailed travel recommendations on the Internet, and offers a full suite of interactive travel services including weather for thousands of cities worldwide. The Web site is organized into three main sections: Places, Planning and Play with content coming in part from Conde Nast Traveler, Gourmet and Allure magazines as well as the Fodor's Guides. People planning both vacations and leisure travel frequent Epicurious for travel recommendations, tips, special deals and advice, as well as full booking capabilities and other interactive travel related services. Digital Courier Technologies Inc. supplies businesses and major web portals See portal. with sophisticated e-commerce and content delivery software. The software is based on a powerful matrix of server-side Java software components. Among the company's current products, which utilize the powerful e-commerce and content delivery software, are netClearing, an electronic commerce service for Internet payment processing, clearing, and settlement; WeatherLabs, a premiere online weather information service (www.weatherlabs.com); and VideosNow (www.videosnow.com), a sophisticated retail engine that will offer videos, DVDs, laserdiscs and other video products on the America Online See AOL. (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange :AOL (A division of Time Warner, Inc., New York, NY, www.aol.com) The world's largest online information service with access to the Internet, e-mail, chat rooms and a variety of databases and services. ) network as well as on AOL.com. VideosNow launches this month. CondeNet Inc., a unit of Advance Publications Inc., was launched in May 1995 to develop dynamic interactive sites on the Internet's World Wide Web. CondeNet has carried over to the Internet a heritage of editorial excellence established by Conde Nast Publications, also a unit of Advance Publications Inc. Conde Nast is one of the world's premiere magazine publishers. Its 17 titles include: Vogue Vogue leading fashion magazine in France and America. [Fr. and Amer. Culture: Misc.] See : Fashion , Glamour, Mademoiselle, Self, Allure, Vanity Fair, The New Yorker yorker Noun Cricket a ball bowled so as to pitch just under or just beyond the bat [probably after the Yorkshire County Cricket Club] , Architectural Digest Architectural Digest is a glossy American monthly magazine. Its principle subject is interior design, not -- as the name of the magazine might suggest -- architecture more generally. The magazine is published by Condé Nast Publications and was founded in 1920 [1]. , House & Garden, Gourmet, Bon Appetit, Conde Nast Traveler, Details, GQ, Bride's, Women's Sports & Fitness and Wired. |
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