CorelCity.com Brings The Online World Directly To Your Desktop: Corel's Powerful New One-stop Portal for Computing, Services, Applications and Information.OTTAWA--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec. 1, 1999-- COREL(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 :CORL CORL Corel Corporation (stock symbol) CORL Coalition of Reef Lovers CORL capital outlay revenue limit CORL change-orientated reflective listening (psychotherapy) CORL Central Ontario Ringette League ) (TSE See Tokyo Stock Exchange. TSE 1. See Tokyo Stock Exchange (TSE). 2. See Toronto Stock Exchange (TSE). :COR.) 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:CORL) (TSE:COR) is pleased to announce that its CorelCity.com(tm) portal is now live with a wide array of key services and information. CorelCity.com is a hub that provides links to each of Corel's Web sites, including www.corel.com, linux.corel.com, designer.com, officecommunity.com, Corel eStore(tm) and ClipartCity.com. In addition, Corel has added a number of its own valuable online services and partnered with a variety of third parties to offer a complete online service destination. CorelCity.com will be a central place on the Web for Corel customers to go for information and services. In November, Corel announced that its new Linux(r) operating system operating system (OS) Software that controls the operation of a computer, directs the input and output of data, keeps track of files, and controls the processing of computer programs. , Corel(r) LINUX(r) OS, would be bundled with every computer motherboard package shipped worldwide by the PC Chips group of companies--PC Chips estimates that it will ship more than 20 million motherboards in the year 2000. Corel LINUX Corel Linux, also called Corel LinuxOS, was a Debian-based Linux distribution made by Corel that was released in late 1999. Corel later discontinued the distribution, but did not remove the former Corel Open Source Development website until March 2002. OS and PC Chips customers can access CorelCity.com with a single click on a desktop icon, taking them to one central place for information on Corel products and for online services, bringing even more value to their purchase. "Our goal with CorelCity.com was to create an online destination where our users could go for any online service they needed--whether it was to store files or receive a fax, or to look up a stock quote or a movie listing," said 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. "CorelCity.com is that one-stop destination, with links to each of Corel's Web sites and to valuable online services that our customers would have had to search for in the past." CorelCity.com offers the following services at no charge to its online customers: * Corel(r) vDrive (beta version A pre-shipping release of hardware or software that has gone through alpha test. A beta version of software is supposed to be very close to the final product, but, in practice, it is more a way of getting users to test the software in the first place under real conditions. ): An easy-to-use and convenient place to store files on the Internet, customers get up to 20 megabytes of free storage space, and can access their files anytime, anywhere, as long as they have a computer with an Internet connection. * Easy Web Access: CorelCity.com provides links to all of Corel's Web sites, including www.corel.com and the community Web sites linux.corel.com, designer.com and officecommunity.com. These sites offer Corel users articles and information relating to relating to relate prep → concernant relating to relate prep → bezüglich +gen, mit Bezug auf +acc Linux, graphic design practices and small business information, as well as productivity tools that relate to the software. There are also links to Corel eStore, Corel's online shopping mall which offers award-winning software, access to clipart image collections, exclusive high-end premium photos and more; and to ClipartCity.com, the Corel site that gives users easy access to a huge variety of downloadable images that are free or available for purchase. * News and Information: Consumer services Consumer Services refers to the formulation, deformulation, technical consulting and testing of most consumer products, such as food, herbs, beverages, vitamins, pharmaceuticals, cosmetics, hair products, household cleaners, [paints, plastics, metals, waxes, coatings, minerals, , provided by InfoSpace.com, give customers access to relevant content and services including the day's news headlines as well as links to yellow and white page directories, entertainment links, daily horoscopes, stock quotes, weather updates and more. * Powerful Internet Meta Search Capability: Mamma.com provides the Web search functionality on CorelCity.com so that customers can quickly and easily find what they are looking for Looking for In the context of general equities, this describing a buy interest in which a dealer is asked to offer stock, often involving a capital commitment. Antithesis of in touch with. on the Web. * Free e-mail See Internet e-mail service. : Chek.com provides customers with free email. Members of the Corel community can proudly display their new online identity by signing up for a free Web-based account with theirname@corelcity.com, designer.com, or officecommunity.com. * Instant Messaging Exchanging text messages in real time between two or more people logged into a particular instant messaging (IM) service. Instant messaging is more interactive than e-mail because messages are sent immediately, whereas e-mail messages can be queued up in a mail server for seconds or : For immediate, person-to-person, text-based conversations, Webb Interactive Services has developed JabberIM, a next generation, XML-based instant messaging application that provides Corel users with one of the most advanced and open instant messaging solutions on the market. * Online Fax and Voice-mail: eFax.com (www.efax.com) provides a valuable unified messaging Having access to e-mail, voice mail and faxes via a common computer application or by telephone. For example, unified messaging may send faxes and digitized voice mail to a mail server that turns them into e-mail attachments. service that allows users to manage their voice and fax messages using the Internet. Corel is planning to add other online services to CorelCity.com in the near future, such as Corel(r) Printing Service, which will allow customers to personalize clothing, gifts and other items using their own photos and drawings. 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 CORL 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 COR. For more information visit Corel's Web site at www.corel.com. Corel, WordPerfect, CorelDRAW 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. Fact Sheet CorelCity.com Partners Chek.com Chek.com is a focused market leader in providing private-labeled Affinity E-mail, Small Business E-mail and Targeted Advertising Solutions. Incorporated in January 1998, Chek has developed e-mail solutions for a number of the world's most prominent brands, media companies and businesses. The combination of Chek's proprietary e-mail technology, and use of standard mail protocols, has positioned Chek with the fastest and most dynamic e-mail solution available. For more information, please visit www.check.com "We are pleased to partner with a prominent company like Corel to offer our e-mail service to a huge new market of consumers," said David Hickson, vice president, Chek.com. "It is very important for companies to develop an e-mail strategy and to be able to offer their consumers an e-mail account that is accessible wherever and whenever they need it. Customers who visit CorelCity.com can sign up for their free e-mail account and participate as a select member of the Corel community." eFax.com eFax.com (NASDAQ: EFAX) is a leading provider of Internet unified messaging solutions. By providing unique telephone numbers to its more than 1.4 million subscribers, eFax.com has become the leading provider of Internet Telephony messaging. The company markets its Internet services via its own eFax.com Web site in addition to its many affiliates and co-brand partners including Phone.com, Network Solutions, WebTV, XOOM XOOM Extraction of Object Oriented Software Metrics .com, fortunecity.com, eGroups, FindLaw and AllBusiness.com. Founded in 1988, eFax is headquartered in Menlo Park, California Menlo Park is a city in San Mateo County, California in the United States of America. It is located at latitude 37°29' North, longitude 122°9' East. Menlo Park had 30,785 inhabitants as of the 2000 U.S. Census. . For more information, please visit www.efax.com "We have over ten years experience developing and licensing our telecommunications and document technologies, and we are very pleased to be teaming with Corel to provide our eFax service to their customers," said Ron Brown, vice president of marketing at eFax.com. InfoSpace.com InfoSpace.com is a leading Internet infrastructure provider of services for consumers, merchants and wireless devices. InfoSpace.com's affiliate network consists of more than 2,100 Web sites. The Company's affiliates include 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. , Microsoft, Disney/InfoSeek's GO Network, NBC's Snap, Lycos, go2net Inc., DoubleClick, Dow Jones (The Wall Street Journal Interactive Edition) and ABC ABC in full American Broadcasting Co. Major U.S. television network. It began when the expanding national radio network NBC split into the separate Red and Blue networks in 1928. LocalNet, among others. In addition, the Company provides services to a network of wireless devices including PCs, cellular phones, pages, screen telephones, television set-top boxes, online kiosks, and personal digital assistants. These include relationships with Acer America, AT&T Wireless, Nokia, Nextel, Sprint, Mitsui, Lucent, and @Home. "Our strategy at InfoSpace.com is to keep pace with the phenomenal growth of the Internet and to provide the information and services that consumers, merchants and mobile users are looking for on any device they may be using," said Kent Hellebust, senior vice president, business development and marketing, InfoSpace.com. "We are very excited that Corel is providing this one-stop online service for its customers and we are very happy to provide the consumer and merchant services for CorelCity.com." Mamma.com Mamma.com--The Mother Of All Search Engines(tm), is recognized as one of the top Meta Search Engines on the Internet today. Mamma.com continues to experience explosive growth since its inception in 1996 and presently services over three million unique users and serves up 40 million pageviews on a monthly basis. Mamma.com is also a leading provider of Internet Meta Search Engines and customized Search Engines to a fast-growing network of major high traffic Web sites. For more information, please visit www.mamma.com. "It is strategic partnerships like this one with Corel that will allow Mamma.com to continue to be a leader in the Internet Search market space," said Herman Tumurcuoglu, president and chief executive officer at Mamma.com. "Our expertise is in providing end users with highly relevant and comprehensive search results and we are pleased to do this for users of CorelCity.com." Webb Interactive Services, Inc. Webb is a technology infrastructure provider of advanced Internet applications and services that enable buyers and sellers to more easily interact within their local economy. Webb is leveraging its community expertise with the emerging standards of XML XML in full Extensible Markup Language. Markup language developed to be a simplified and more structural version of SGML. It incorporates features of HTML (e.g., hypertext linking), but is designed to overcome some of HTML's limitations. to create commercial communities that empower our distribution partners in the local commerce and community banking market sectors. For more information, please visit www.webb.net. "Instant messaging is the fastest-growing application on the Internet today," said Perry Evans, Webb president. "Webb customized the JabberIM technology, working with the XML-based Jabber An open standard for instant messaging (IM). There are tens of thousands of Jabber servers on the Internet, most of which are privately run within a company or college campus. There are also hundreds of public Jabber servers that any user can register with, Google Talk being the largest. .org open source platform. We're partnering with Corel to offer CorelCity.com customers a very flexible, stable and open instant messaging application that can grow into a whole suite of value-added services. We are confident that JabberIM will enhance the community experience of CorelCity.com." |
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