Desktop Data announces 144 organizations testing NewsEDGE/WEB; Intranet service on track to ship by end of third quarter.BURLINGTON, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 26, 1996--Desktop Data, Inc. (Nasdaq: DTOP DTOP Departamento de Transportacion y Obras Publicas (Puerto Rico) DTOP Digital Topographic Data ), the leader in LAN (Local Area Network) A communications network that serves users within a confined geographical area. The "clients" are the user's workstations typically running Windows, although Mac and Linux clients are also used. delivery of real-time news and information, today announced that 144 organizations are beta testing (programming) beta testing - Testing a pre-release (potentially unreliable) version of a piece of software by making it available to selected users. This term derives from early 1960s terminology for product cycle checkpoints, first used at IBM but later standard throughout the its NewsEDGE/WEB service. The testing organizations include 23 of the top 50 Business Week 1000 companies. Announced just two months ago, NewsEDGE/WEB is already being tested by over a third of Desktop Data's customers. To accommodate the exceptionally strong customer interest, the Desktop Data sales force will use Internet communications to extend trial access to all customers prior to the service's commercial release, scheduled for the end of the third quarter. "Desktop Data has really listened to customer feedback in the design of the Intranet implementation of NewsEDGE," said Larry Helseth, an Intranet developer at Baxter Healthcare and member of Desktop Data's Design Council. "Our end users need business-oriented information products that are accessible today from the web browsers The following is a list of web browsers. Historical Historically important browsers In order of release:
NewsEDGE/WEB is a customized, real-time news service designed for Intranet users within large organizations. It provides marketplace- standard browser access to personalized, department, company and full news chosen from 600+ authoritative sources for thousands of users connected to their own enterprise Intranets. NewsEDGE/WEB builds upon Desktop Data's seven years of experience in delivering real-time news across the local and wide area networks of large customers, which now number more than 350 leading corporations, financial institutions, publishers and government agencies in North America North America, third largest continent (1990 est. pop. 365,000,000), c.9,400,000 sq mi (24,346,000 sq km), the northern of the two continents of the Western Hemisphere. and Europe. Desktop Data is the leading independent provider of customized, real-time news and information services See Information Systems. for knowledge workers connected to their organizations' local and wide area networks. The NewsEDGE service is used by executives, salespeople, marketers, lawyers, accountants, consultants, bankers, analysts, policy makers and financial professionals throughout customer organizations. Desktop Data, Inc. is a publicly-traded company based in Burlington, MA, with offices in Amsterdam; London; New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of ; Iselin, NJ; Philadelphia; Washington, D.C.; Atlanta; Toronto; Chicago; Dallas; Denver; San Francisco San Francisco (săn frănsĭs`kō), city (1990 pop. 723,959), coextensive with San Francisco co., W Calif., on the tip of a peninsula between the Pacific Ocean and San Francisco Bay, which are connected by the strait known as the Golden ; and Irvine, CA. More information on NewsEDGE/WEB, Desktop Data's Internet Strategy, and other NewsEDGE services can be found at the Desktop Data, Inc. web site, http://www.desktopdata.com. CONTACT: Doug Hoffman Technical Marketing (617) 229-3322 doug.hoffman@desktopdata.com |
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