CyberMedia's First Aid 95 Tops Best-Seller Lists in US and UK; Top-Selling Utility at CompUSA.SANTA MONICA Santa Monica (săn`tə mŏn`ĭkə), city (1990 pop. 86,905), Los Angeles co., S Calif., on Santa Monica Bay; inc. 1886. Tourism and retailing are important, and the city has motion-picture, biotechnology, and software industries. , Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 14, 1996--After only four months in stores, First Aid 95, the automatic technical support software product from CyberMedia, has climbed to the top of sales charts in the United States United States, officially United States of America, republic (2005 est. pop. 295,734,000), 3,539,227 sq mi (9,166,598 sq km), North America. The United States is the world's third largest country in population and the fourth largest country in area. and the United Kingdom. The privately-held software company recently received $4.5 million in venture funding from leading venture capital firms Name Location Founding date Managing Partners/Directors Specialty Capital managed 5AM Ventures Menlo Park, CA; Waltham, MA 2002 John Diekman, PhD (managing partner), Scott Rocklage, PhD (managing partner), Andrew Schwab (managing partner) life sciences $200M [1] to fuel its fast-paced growth. "First Aid 95 sales have been growing exponentially because it is the only product on the market that fills a need for millions of personal computer owners -- fixing their Windows software problems, easily and automatically," said Frank Martin, vice president of sales for CyberMedia. "Everybody with a Windows PC An x86-based computer that runs some version of Windows. See x86 and Windows. has a reason to buy First Aid 95." In the four months since introduction in September, 1995, CyberMedia shipped more than 300,000 copies of First Aid 95 to nearly 4,000 stores worldwide. The company shipped more than 150,000 units in Q4 1995 and an additional 95,000 units in January 1996 alone. As of December 1995, First Aid 95 is one of the top five best-selling utility products at CompUSA and the no. 1 selling software product overall at the United Kingdom reseller, Software Warehouse. First Aid 95 Sales Statistics: -- No. 1 Utility - CompUSA (week of November 17, 1995) -- No. 1 Selling Software Product - United Kingdom (Software Warehouse, December 1995) -- No. 7 Best-Selling Home Productivity title (ComputerLife, December 1995) -- No. 10 Best-Selling Utility in consumer electronic stores and superstores (TWICE Magazine, January 29, 1996) -- No. 11 Best-Selling Software Utility (Ingram Micro Ingram Micro, Inc. NYSE: IM a Fortune 100 company founded in 1979 and based in Santa Ana, California. It is the world’s largest technology distributor and a leading technology sales, marketing and logistics company. ) -- No. 20 Windows 95 Software Product (by units, PC Data, December 1995) Rapid early sales confirm CyberMedia's belief that First Aid 95 is meeting a significant consumer need. Traditional diagnostic software products like Norton Utilities Widely used utility programs for Windows and Macintosh from Symantec. Used to fix problems and fine tune the machine, they include functions to restore deleted files, diagnose the disk for corrupted data, defragment the disk and clean up and track changes to the Registry. and PC Tools focus on hardware problems. But 90% of the problems that send users rushing to call technical support hotlines are software conflicts -- such as error messages DOS and Windows error messages are listed individually in this database by the message that is displayed when they occur. See also DOS error messages and Application Error.  , crashes, GPFs (general protection faults), incorrect drivers and misplaced mis·place tr.v. mis·placed, mis·plac·ing, mis·plac·es 1. a. To put into a wrong place: misplace punctuation in a sentence. b. .DLL (1) See data link layer. (2) (Dynamic Link Library) An executable program module in Windows that performs one or more functions at runtime. DLLs are not launched by the user; they are called for by an executable program or by other DLLs. files. First Aid 95 is the only consumer software product designed to automatically fix Windows software problems. First Aid 95 also has received several top awards, including the Stellar Award from Windows Sources magazine in the US and a four-star rating by PC Pro, a leading UK computer magazine. CyberMedia's mission is to offer products that bring automatic technical support to PC users, giving them the power to fix problems on their own. Founded in 1991, CyberMedia is a privately-held company with headquarters at 3000 Ocean Park Blvd., Suite 2001, Santa Monica, CA 90405. Phone 310/581-4700 or 1-800/721-7824. CONTACT: Phase Two Strategies Suzy Jacoby, 415/772-8418 suzy_jacoby@p2pr.com or CyberMedia Giselle Bisson, 415/581-4700 gisellemb@aol.com |
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