CyberCash Unveils "Instabuy.com" Web Site for Consumer One-Click Shopping Online.RESTON Reston, uninc. city (1990 pop. 48,556), Fairfax co., N Va., a planned community established in 1961. A suburb of Washington, D.C., Reston is organized in a series of residential villages and commercial areas. , Va.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 22, 1999-- Consumers Register for Free InstaBuy(R) One-click Shopping Service at New Web Site and View Product Offers from Popular Merchants Through Impulse impulse, in mechanics: see momentum. Impulse (mechanics) The integral of a force over an interval of time. For a force F , the impulse J over the interval from t0 to t1 ! Buy Network CyberCash A web payment processing service from CyberCash, Inc., Oakland, CA that allowed merchants to process credit cards and initiate direct transfers from customer checking accounts. Merchant transactions were sent to CyberCash servers which accessed the credit card networks and Automated , Inc. (Nasdaq:CYCH), the world leader in e-commerce e-commerce, commerce conducted over the Internet, most often via the World Wide Web. E-commerce can apply to purchases made through the Web or to business-to-business activities such as inventory transfers. payment technologies and services, announced today the premier of its one-click shopping service web site, instabuy.com. The web site allows consumers to sign up for the InstaBuy(R) one-click shopping service and make purchases from more than 85 online merchants, including Barnes Barnes, former municipal borough, SE England. See Richmond upon Thames. & Noble, Eddie Bauer Eddie Bauer (NASDAQ: EBHI) is a clothing store chain. Headquartered in Bellevue, Washington, and a subsidiary of Eddie Bauer Holdings (formerly Spiegel, Inc.), the company was founded in Seattle in 1920 as "Eddie Bauer's Sport Shop" by its namesake, Eddie Bauer (1899 – , Egghead.com, 1-800 Flowers flowers represent this season. [Art: Hall, 129] See : Spring Flowers Anthea epithet of Hera, meaning “flowery.” [Gk. Myth. and Sharper Image, offering branded products through the Impulse! Buy Network. "Instabuy.com represents a launch point, a web site where consumers can get their InstaBuy wallets and start buying online with ease," said Denis Denis, king of Portugal: see Diniz. Yaro, executive vice president, CyberCash. "As more merchants make the InstaBuy service available to their online customers, shoppers will also be able to sign up when they make a purchase at any of those sites." 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. Yaro, a consumer can get an InstaBuy wallet See digital wallet. without interrupting his or her shopping experience. During the first purchase at any InstaBuy-enabled merchant site, the consumer types his or her payment and shipping information into the merchant's own form. At the end of the purchase, the consumer is prompted to sign up for the free InstaBuy service by entering a password A secret word or code used to serve as a security measure against unauthorized access to data. It is normally managed by the operating system or DBMS. However, the computer can only verify the legitimacy of the password, not the legitimacy of the user. See NCSC. for future use. The consumer's information and password are securely stored under the auspices aus·pi·ces 1 n. Plural of auspex. auspices Noun, pl under the auspices of with the support and approval of [Latin auspicium augury from birds] Noun of a participating financial institution. First USA is the first financial institution to offer the InstaBuy service to consumers across the Internet Internet Publicly accessible computer network connecting many smaller networks from around the world. It grew out of a U.S. Defense Department program called ARPANET (Advanced Research Projects Agency Network), established in 1969 with connections between computers at the . The next time the consumer shops at the same merchant or any other InstaBuy-enabled merchant, the InstaBuy window pops up on the merchant's payment page, already loaded with the consumer's purchase information. The consumer simply enters his or her password and completes the purchase. The payment information is transferred directly and securely to the merchant site for payment processing. "Despite the strength of e-commerce during the recent holiday shopping season, merchants continue to tell us that customer drop-off rates remain a significant problem," said Yaro. "When a customer visits a merchant web site, picks out something to buy, puts it in his or her `shopping cart The online equivalent of the supermarket cart. You place your merchandise in the cart and then check out when you are all finished. ,' but leaves before concluding the purchase, something is very wrong. By making the transaction easy and safe for the consumer, the InstaBuy service helps merchants retain these prospective customers." Impulse! Buy Network was one of the first Internet commerce solution providers to announce it would integrate the InstaBuy service into its online shopping solution. Impulse! Buy Network provides a market leading merchandising merchandising Element of marketing concerned especially with the sale of goods and services to customers. One aspect of merchandising is advertising, which aims to capture the interest of the segment of the population most likely to buy the product. platform that enables branded merchants to broadcast their best offers into top content sites across the Internet. With its unique set of merchandising tools, Impulse! Buy is able to optimize optimize - optimisation e-commerce effectiveness and pass on the benefits to content sites, their merchant partners and consumers alike. "The InstaBuy service is the only solution that truly provides ease-of-use, security, and portability for consumers, which is why we felt this technology was important to integrate into our platform," said Pierre Pierre (pēr), city (1990 pop. 12,906), state capital (since 1889) and seat of Hughes co., central S.Dak., on the east bank of the Missouri River, opposite Fort Pierre; inc. 1883. R. Wolff Wolff , Kaspar Friedrich 1733-1794. German anatomist noted for his pioneering work in embryology. His chief work, Theoria Generationis (1759), refuted the theory of preformation, which held that the embryo is a fully formed miniature adult. , vice president of business development at Impulse! Buy Network. "Best of all, the integration time was quick and easy so that we can build and later leverage the base of InstaBuy consumers on the Internet. The InstaBuy service enables Impulse! Buy to register consumers once. Then they will be able to shop anywhere within the Impulse! Buy Network, as well as from our merchant partners who accept the InstaBuy service on their own web sites. In our opinion, this is critical to the success of any merchant's long term e-commerce strategy," Wolff said. In addition to signing up for the service at the instabuy.com web site, visitors can learn more about the InstaBuy service and can even make purchases from the web site to see how it works. "As soon as people see how easy the InstaBuy service is to use, they will want to use it all the time when they shop online. The web site gives them a chance to take it for a test drive," Yaro said. CyberCash is the world's leading provider of secure electronic commerce payment technologies and services spanning the retail point of sale through the Internet. CyberCash, the CyberCash logo and InstaBuy are trademarks, service marks, registered trademarks or registered service marks of CyberCash, Inc. Visit the InstaBuy web site at www.instabuy.com
Impulse! Buy Network Merchants
Using the InstaBuy service on participating sites of the Impulse! Buy
Network, consumers can purchase products from the following top
branded merchants:
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@Backup Health & Vitamins Express
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1-800 Flowers Holt Educational Outlet
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4real.nu J. Crew
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911 Gifts Jewelryweb
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Acer America Kingston Technology
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Aplio K-Tel
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Art Select Lands End
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ARTiSANgifts.com Live to Play
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AutoVantage MacZone
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Avon Michelle Rosenberg
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Barnes & Noble Microwarehouse
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Bedandbath.com Mrs. Beasley/Miss Grace
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Best Brazil MWI Technologies
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bioDERM Omaha Steaks
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BrainPlay.com Outletmall
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Cheetah Deals Outpost.com
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ChipShot Golf Packard Bell
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Christmas Depot Paul Fredrick
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Cigars International PC Zone
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Club Computer PrivacyGuard
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College Depot ProTeam (Genesis Direct)
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Compaq Red Rocket
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Cooking.com Rhodas Collectibles
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Cosmetics Counter SendWine.com
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Countdown Clocks Shades.com
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DVD Wave Sharper Image
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Deal Deal Smoke Shop, The
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DesignerOutlet.com SOS Wireless
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Diamond & Gemstones Sports Superstore
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Digital Chef Superbuild.com
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Disney Swiss Army Depot
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ESPN Symantec
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Eastbay Territory Ahead
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Eddie Bauer The Outpost Mall
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Egghead.com TravelersAdvantage
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Egift U.S. Floral Network
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Electronics.net Uglies
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Everything Wireless US Wings
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Fashion Mall Value Vision
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FogDog (Sportsite) Weider Publications
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Fragrance Counter XOOM.com
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Fragrance Net GreatFlowers.com
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Gear.com Headset Discounters
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Gift Tree
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