Digital Island Streams World's First Virtual Newscaster, Ananova, to Deliver Real-Time Bulletins Worldwide.Business Editors & High Tech Writers SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 18, 2000 Digital Island's Footprint On-Demand Streaming Service Provides Superior Experience to Increase Consumer Retention and Loyalty at Ananova.com Digital Island, Inc. (Nasdaq: ISLD ISLD International Society for Lasers in Dentistry ISLD Island ECN, Inc. (stock symbol) ), a leading Global e-Business Delivery Network, announced today that Ananova, the world's first virtual newscaster A machine-created person who broadcasts the news on the Internet. The virtual newscaster is available 24 hours per day to deliver any and all kinds of information and news bulletins. He or she becomes a familiar character that you identify with every time you get the news. , is using Digital Island's Footprint(TM) content delivery service to stream her real-time news bulletins at www.ananova.com. Using Digital Island's Footprint On-Demand Streaming, Ananova will broadcast news and information bulletins simultaneously to online audiences worldwide. Ananova is the human face in front of Ananova.com's real-time news, information and e-commerce services. She responds with relevant emotions and actions to the information she delivers using real-time data Real-time data denotes information that is delivered immediately after collection. There is no delay in the timeliness of the information provided. Some uses of this term confuse it with the term dynamic data. files, text-to-speech technology and image-rendering techniques. Ananova's global audience can instantly view streaming news bulletins in a compelling and realistic way because Digital Island houses its Footprint servers at ISPs worldwide, giving consumers high-speed local access to streaming content for broadcast-quality viewing. This means that Ananova can exceed the expectations of a growing audience of consumers who traditionally watch TV. "Given the tremendous amount of work and innovation that went into the creation of Ananova, we view Digital Island as a crucial partner to ananova.com by guaranteeing a high-quality experience that enhances our vision of next-generation news and information delivery," said Andrew Burgess BURGESS. A magistrate of a borough; generally, the chief officer of the corporation, who performs, within the borough, the same kind of duties which a mayor does in a city. In England, the word is sometimes applied to all the inhabitants of a borough, who are called burgesses sometimes it , Operations Director at ananova.com. "Using Footprint, Ananova can make her mark on the world of news." "Ananova illustrates Digital Island's ability to optimize rich-content delivery to a global audience," said Tim Wilson This article is about comedian/singer from Columbus, Georgia. For the coach of the same name, see Tim Wilson (coach). For the football player of the same name see Tim Wilson (football player). , vice president of marketing at Digital Island. "Ananova's is the first of a new wave of innovation that demands increasingly sophisticated infrastructures and network services to seamlessly integrate the worlds of entertainment, news, sports and business." Ananova.com is the successor to PA NewsCentre, the Web site of the Press Assocation, a leading U.K news agency. Ananova.com features the world's first virtual newscaster Ananova, a fully animated "virtual" presenter capable of delivering breaking news and information. Ananova.com also incorporates the Eventselector web site, allowing people to search the UK's biggest database of what's on What's On (Traditional Chinese: 熒幕八爪娛) is a weekly half-hour TV series that airs on Fairchild Television. Format Originally started in 1996, the show is currently the longest-running program in Fairchild Television history. listings and book tickets and order merchandise online. www.ananova.com Digital Island(R) is a leading Global e-Business Delivery Network. The company's suite of application services See ASP and Web services. for interactive e-Business allows customers and partners to readily integrate content delivery, hosting and intelligent networking to give the ultimate consumer a superior experience. Strategically located Data Centers 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. , Europe and Asia are directly connected to leading access service providers in 25 countries. In addition, Digital Island operates a network of more than 1,200 content distributors across the Internet, which improves the performance and reduces the cost of hosting high-volume Web applications in target markets. This network is expected to grow to more than 6,000 content distributors in 350 locations worldwide by the year 2003. Digital Island is headquartered in 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 . www.digitalisland.net. This release may contain forward-looking statements forward-looking statement A projected financial statement based on management expectations. A forward-looking statement involves risks with regard to the accuracy of assumptions underlying the projections. that are subject to risks and uncertainties. Important factors which could cause actual results to differ materially from those in the forward-looking statements, include but are not limited to: the company's short operating history which makes it difficult to predict its future results of operations; the company's history of operating losses operating loss The excess of operating expenses over revenue. As with operating income, operating losses exclude revenues and expenses from operations that are not considered a regular part of the business. Also called deficit. Compare operating income. and expected future losses which could impede im·pede tr.v. im·ped·ed, im·ped·ing, im·pedes To retard or obstruct the progress of. See Synonyms at hinder1. [Latin imped its ability to address the risks and difficulties encountered by companies in new and rapidly evolving markets; the company's future operating results could fluctuate which may cause volatility or a decline in the price of the company's stock; the possibility that the company may not be able to price its services above the overall cost of bandwidth causing its financial results to suffer; and other factors detailed in the Company's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, including its recent filings on Form S-1. Note to Editors: Digital Island is a registered trademark of Digital Island, Inc. All other trademarks are properties of their respective owners. |
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