Corel eStore is New, Improved and Online at shop.corel.com -- Technology from ShopNow.com Adds Improved Functionality and Ease-of-use.OTTAWA--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 16, 1999-- Corel Corporation (company) Corel Corporation - A software publisher best known for the CorelDraw application. Founded in June 1985 by Dr. Michael Cowpland, Corel Corporation was originally a systems integration company. (Nasdaq:COSFF) (TSE See Tokyo Stock Exchange. TSE 1. See Tokyo Stock Exchange (TSE). 2. See Toronto Stock Exchange (TSE). :COS.) is pleased to announce that the Corel eStore(tm) (shop.corel.com) has a new look, improved functionality and several brand-new products. Corel eStore is Corel's online shopping mall, which offers award-winning software, access to clipart image collections, exclusive high-end premium photos, illustrations, vector clipart images, stock photos and more. Customers can shop 24 hours a day, seven days a week, in a convenient, secure, electronic setting. Corel recently signed a deal with ShopNow.com to include ShopNow.com's technology in Corel eStore. The inclusion of this technology means that Corel eStore is a much easier shopping experience. There is a sendable shopping cart which enables users to send the contents of their basket to someone else for approval or purchase (this is great for gift suggestions); new technology streamlining the purchase process; Boolean searches with and across multiple categories to help users find the images they need faster; order tracking and confirmation by email; and faster load times. "ShopNow.com has provided Corel with the latest and greatest technology for Corel eStore," said Jim Orban, Corel's executive vice president of sales and marketing. "We ran the site through customer usability testing Usability testing is a means for measuring how well people can use some human-made object (such as a web page, a computer interface, a document, or a device) for its intended purpose, i.e. usability testing measures the usability of the object. and focused on customer feedback to improve the overall shopping experience." Improving the online shopping experience is exactly what ShopNow.com strives to do. "We are pleased to be able to demonstrate our capabilities and technology by helping Corel relaunch an improved eStore," said Dwayne Walker, president and chief executive officer of ShopNow.com. "Corel eStore is an excellent example of the end-to-end solution (jargon) end-to-end solution - (E2ES) A term that suggests that the supplier of an application program or system will provide all the hardware and/or software components and resouces to meet the customer's requirement and no other supplier need be involved. Compare: turn-key solution. we provide our merchant partners." Dr. Michael Cowpland Michael Cowpland (born April 23, 1943) is a Canadian entrepreneur, businessman, and the founder and one-time president, chairman and CEO of Corel, a Canadian software company. Cowpland was born in Bexhill, Sussex, England and obtained a BSc. , president and chief executive officer of Corel Corporation, and Dwayne Walker, president and chief executive officer of ShopNow.com, will be on hand to launch the Corel eStore on Tuesday, June 22, 1999, at 2:45 p.m. Eastern Daylight Time (EDT EDT abbr. Eastern Daylight Time EDT Eastern Daylight Time EDT n abbr (US) (= Eastern Daylight Time) → hora de verano de Nueva York EDT ) in the PC Expo A trade show for resellers, corporate managers and technical professionals from CMP Media LLC, a subsidiary of United Business Media. First held in New York in 1983 with 120 exhibitors and 9,600 attendees, the show grew from the personal computer's early years to 550 vendors and more than EBusiness Pavilion. Corel will offer demonstrations of Corel eStore and other Corel e-commerce initiatives on June 22 to June 24 between 2:45 p.m. EDT and 3:15 p.m. EDT in the EBusiness Pavilion. Along with the new products, Corel eStore now has Corel(r) Studio and Clipartcity.com on its navigation bar A set of buttons or graphic images typically in a row or column used as a central point that link you to major topic sections on a Web site. If the navigation bar is a single graphic image with multiple selections, it is known as an imagemap. See imagemap. , which will give Corel eStore customers easy access to a huge variety of downloadable images that are free or available for purchase. "The inclusion of Corel Studio, Clipartcity.com and other enhancements is great for our customers because it's now a one-stop shopping experience," said Mr. Orban. "Our users can get great software, digital photos, clipart images and other content all in one visit to Corel eStore. Our offerings are much more accessible now, and we're confident that people will find this shopping experience convenient and easy." Featured on Corel e-Store are: -- Business applications, including WordPerfect(r) family of suites. -- Graphics and publishing products, including CorelDRAW(r) suites -- Clipart and Multimedia, including Corel GALLERY(tm) collections -- Internet software, including a downloadable version of CorelXARA(tm) 2.0 -- Corel products for Macintosh(r) -- Corel products for Linux(r) -- Store Specials section -- Books, manuals and technical support - Access from the Navigation Bar to Clipartcity.com - Access from the Navigation Bar to Corel Studio for downloadable images Once a customer makes a purchase, it is either available for download or delivered to the door with the click of a mouse. There are introductory specials, promotions and contests. Corel eStore is convenient, secure and easy to use, with industry-standard Secure Socket Layer (SSL (Secure Sockets Layer) The leading security protocol on the Internet. Developed by Netscape, SSL is widely used to do two things: to validate the identity of a Web site and to create an encrypted connection for sending credit card and other personal data. ) technology. According to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. a May 12, 1999 report by Forrester, 5 percent of Canadian households and 11 percent of US households buy online. Estimates for total 1998 online retail revenues in the US range from $7.4 to $13 billion (Wirthlin Worldwide Wirthlin Worldwide was an influential political and business consulting firm founded by Dick Wirthlin. It operated from 1969 to 2004. It ceased to operate as a separate company on September 8, 2004 when it was acquired by Harris Interactive for a combination of stock and cash ), and Wirthlin noted that while this figure represents less than 1 percent of total U.S. retail sales, "the rate of growth has been impressive and the projections are astronomical." In a study that Wirthlin conducted for NetRatings which asked users what kinds of products they bought over the Internet, computers and media products topped the list. Corel Corporation Corel Corporation is an internationally recognized developer of award-winning graphics and business productivity applications. Development of market-leading products such as the CorelDRAW(r) line of graphics applications and the Corel(r) WordPerfect(r) Suite of business tools is continually evolving to meet the demands of the corporate, retail and academic markets. Committed to performance, compatibility, value and open standards Specifications for hardware and software that are developed by a standards organization or a consortium involved in supporting a standard. Available to the public for developing compliant products, open standards imply "open systems;" that an existing component in a system can be replaced , Corel develops products for the Windows(r), Macintosh(r), UNIX UNIX Operating system for digital computers, developed by Ken Thompson of Bell Laboratories in 1969. It was initially designed for a single user (the name was a pun on the earlier operating system Multics). (r), Linux(r) and Java(tm) platforms. Corel's common stock trades on The NASDAQ Stock Market Nasdaq stock market The first electronic stock market listing over 5000 companies. The Nasdaq stock market comprises two separate markets, namely the Nasdaq National Market, which trades large, active securities and the Nasdaq Smallcap Market that trades emerging growth companies. (sm) under the symbol COSFF and on the Toronto Stock Exchange Toronto Stock Exchange (TSE) Canada's largest stock exchange, trading approximately 1,200 company stocks and 33 options. under the symbol COS. For more information visit Corel's Web site at www.corel.com. About ShopNow.com Established in 1994, ShopNow.com http://www.shopnow.com is a leading electronic commerce outsourcing and direct marketing company dedicated to making e-commerce a reality for all businesses. Through its full suite of E-commerce solutions, ShopNow.com helps customers and merchants safely and easily buy and sell merchandise online. With offices in Washington and California, ShopNow.com provides electronic commerce technology and services to thousands of companies and online merchants. Corel, WordPerfect, CorelDRAW, Corel eStore, Corel GALLERY and the Go Further logo are trademarks or registered trademarks of Corel Corporation or Corel Corporation Limited. Linux is a registered trademark of Linus Torvalds. UNIX is a registered trademark of The Open Group.. All other product names are trademarks of their respective companies. All other brands and products referenced herein are the trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective holders. |
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