Driveway.com Personal Online Storage Service Integrated Into Phoenix PC System Bios.Business Editors/Hi-Tech Writers SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 20, 2000 Driveway Gains Access to Potential Millions of New PC Users Through Partnership with Phoenix Technologies' PhoenixNet Driveway's personal online storage service will be distributed in a beta test A test of new or revised hardware or software that is performed by users at their facilities under normal operating conditions. Beta testing follows alpha testing. Vendors of packaged software often offer their customers the opportunity of beta testing new releases or versions, and the directly to 100,000 computer users this quarter through a recent agreement with PhoenixNet, the Internet division of Phoenix Technologies. Driveway.com will be embedded Inserted into. See embedded system. into the Phoenix BIOS A PC BIOS from Phoenix Technologies Ltd., Milpitas, CA (www.phoenix.com). Phoenix was the first company to successfully mass produce the ROM BIOS for the PC, which made the PC industry possible. The BIOS enabled software designed for the IBM PC to run in non-IBM PCs. , the code that allows a computer to boot up, and made available to as many as 10 million PC users by the end of 2001. The service will be delivered through PhoenixNet's Internet Launch System (ILS ILS In currencies, this is the abbreviation for the Israeli Shekel. Notes: The currency market, also known as the Foreign Exchange market, is the largest financial market in the world, with a daily average volume of over US $1 trillion. ) directly to the desktop of non-branded, "white box" PCs. Approximately 40 million white box PCs currently use the Phoenix BIOS. "Our agreement with PhoenixNet is a critical step in expanding the distribution of Driveway storage membership at the very point of computer entry," Chris Logan, chief executive officer, Driveway, said. "By residing on the desktop when a new user boots up for the first time, our service becomes a default component. Users will soon discover the great benefits personal online storage contributes to the computing experience." Through its agreement, Driveway gains access to the growing white box channel -- regional chains, systems integrators, value-added resellers and "mom-and-pop" shops. Non-branded systems represent roughly one-third of the PCs sold globally. Driveway.com is one of approximately 10 products and services featured within the PhoenixNet service launched to the desktop from the BIOS. The driveway.com personal online storage service is in the company of household names History Formation (1998-2000) Household Names have been together since 1998, with various members rotating throughout the line-up with singer, Jason Garcia, until it was solidified in the summer of 2000 with bassist/keyboardist, Chris Peters, and drummer, C. J. including Adobe, 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. , CNET (body) CNET - Centre national d'Etudes des Telecommunications. The French national telecommunications research centre at Lannion. , Earthlink, Excite and Yahoo! Driveway is also available directly through the PhoenixNet home page. The agreement with PhoenixNet comes on the heels of recent partnerships with Microsoft, Lycos and LookSmart. Driveway's free HTML HTML in full HyperText Markup Language Markup language derived from SGML that is used to prepare hypertext documents. Relatively easy for nonprogrammers to master, HTML is the language used for documents on the World Wide Web. browser-based service equips members with personal space on the Internet for saving, accessing and sharing files, including business presentations, spreadsheets, MP3s, photos and other digitally-generated information. About Phoenix The Company's BIOS software has been sold to more than 600 customers worldwide and is designed into more than 70 million PCs sold annually, as well as embedded systems Embedded systems Computer systems that cannot be programmed by the user because they are preprogrammed for a specific task and are buried within the equipment they serve. and information appliances. Phoenix's Platform Enabling Division's products and services play a critical role in linking computing and communication technologies for OEMs, and for Internet service and content providers benefiting the information consumer. Founded in 1979, Phoenix is headquartered in San Jose, California San Jose (IPA: /ˌsænhoʊˈzeɪ/) is the third-largest city in California, and the tenth-largest in the United States. It is the county seat of Santa Clara County. . Information about Phoenix and its products is available at http://www.phoenix.com. About Driveway San Francisco-based Driveway is the leader in personal Internet file storage. Through driveway.com, the company offers members a reliable way to access, store and share digital information from any web-enabled computer. The company pioneered Internet-based file storage and has relationships with Microsoft, LookSmart, Lycos, Netscape, McAfee.com and USA.net. For additional information, please visit Driveway at www.driveway.com. Copyright (c) 2000 Driveway Corporation. All Rights Reserved. Driveway (sm) and park it (sm) are service marks of Driveway Corporation. |
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