ForeFront announces shipment of the RoundTable realtime, multimedia conferencing program.HOUSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 22, 1996--ForeFront (NASDAQ NASDAQ in full National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations U.S. market for over-the-counter securities. Established in 1971 by the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD), NASDAQ is an automated quotation system that reports on :FFGI FFGI Factory Finished Goods Inventory ) Wednesday announced that it has begun commercial shipment of client/server software for RoundTable(TM), a dynamic realtime collaboration system for the Internet and intranets. RoundTable combines text-based chat with the capability to dynamically create and share programs, files, graphics, audio, and video images in a designated canvas workspace. RoundTable's conferences feature three window panes -- the realtime canvas for sharing objects, a conference roster, and a realtime text window. "RoundTable is shifting the Internet and corporate intranets from one-way to two-way communication Two-way communication is a form of transmission in which both parties involved transmit information. Common forms of two-way communication are:
"ForeFront's RoundTable is the culmination of more than eight years of proprietary, collaborative technology research, positioning to define the Internet realtime conferencing See real time conferencing. marketplace." From a long distance education program or a geographically dispersed sales force to a reunion of foreign family members or a gathering of car enthusiasts, a RoundTable conference can shorten the distance between friends and colleagues. An early adopter of RoundTable is St. Louis-based Wave Technologies International Inc. (NASDAQ:WAVT), the premier independent technology training company 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. . Wave supplements its self study programs by using RoundTable to host live interaction among students around the country. Using their laptop computers, instructors and students, many of whom travel regularly on business, are able to connect into Wave's RoundTable conference from virtually any location. "RoundTable is perfect for today's environment," said Clyde Jenkins, Wave's Director of Training and Development. Currently, Wave distributes self study kits for its Microsoft courses and uses RoundTable to bring students and instructors together for weekly interactive sessions. "RoundTable lets us get together as a group without actually having to be in the same place. Using RoundTable, our students can be productive in the comfort of their homes at any time of the day or evening," Jenkins added. RoundTable may be launched from any Web browser The program that serves as your front end to the Web on the Internet. In order to view a site, you type its address (URL) into the browser's Location field; for example, www.computerlanguage.com, and the home page of that site is downloaded to you. , operating seamlessly regardless of the platform or connection speed. The system, which can accommodate unlimited participants, can display all active conferences that are dynamically accessible via a standard Web browser. The RoundTable client is available for Windows 95/NT and Mac OS, while the multithreaded multithreaded - multithreading Conference Server runs under Windows 95 and Windows NT (Windows New Technology) A 32-bit operating system from Microsoft for Intel x86 CPUs. NT is the core technology in Windows 2000 and Windows XP (see Windows). Available in separate client and server versions, it includes built-in networking and preemptive multitasking. . In addition to group collaboration products, ForeFront offers a powerful line of desktop productivity and content delivery solutions including WebWhacker(TM), the original offline browsing tool; WebSeeker(TM), a search engine unifier that runs a parallel search of 20 search engines to streamline search result delivery; and GrabNet(TM) 2.0, a dynamic bookmarking In genetics and epigenetics, bookmarking is a biological phenomenon believed to function as an epigenetic mechanism for transmitting cellular memory of the pattern of gene expression in a cell, throughout mitosis, to its daughter cells. tool. An innovator with a history of firsts in the Internet marketplace, ForeFront (NASDAQ:FFGI) develops and markets software products that enable users to be more productive on networks. With headquarters in Houston, ForeFront's customer base includes Fortune 500 companies, government agencies, and universities in 34 countries. CONTACT: ForeFront, Houston Kevin Long, 713/961-1101 or Miller/Shandwick Technologies Richard Burger, 415/962-9550 |
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