Interest!ALERT Inc. Unveils Personalized Internet News & Information Service; Developed Using InTEXT WebInterests!SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 24, 1997--InTEXT Systems announces the availability of its InTEXT WebInterests! product for adding active notification capabilities to Web Sites and Intranets. Using InTEXT WebInterests! for Sun Solaris, Interest!ALERT Inc. developed its personalized Internet news and information service and successfully unveiled it to over a million people. "InTEXT WebInterests! is a powerful product that you can modify easily," explained Alan Gray, Web Developer for Interest!ALERT, Inc. "WebInterests! facilitated the quickest development project we ever undertook." Active Notification InTEXT WebInterests! enables web servers to notify users of new information, as it becomes available, based on their interests. The information that WebInterests! dynamically delivers to users may originate within organizations, perhaps as new pages posted to the Web Site, or be externally sourced such as Usenet information. Internet-Based Information Delivery WebInterests! delivers information to users based on their self- defined filters. The information that WebInterests! delivers can be single documents, files containing a set of files or streams of documents. WebInterests! supports 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. , ANPA ANPA Agenzia Nazionale per la Protezione dell'Ambiente (Italy) ANPA Association of National Park Authorities (of England and Wales) ANPA American Newspaper Publishers Association ANPA Actif Net Par Action , NNTP (Network News Transfer Protocol) The protocol used to connect to Usenet groups on the Internet. Usenet newsreaders support the NNTP protocol. See also NTP. (messaging) NNTP - Network News Transfer Protocol. , ASCII ASCII or American Standard Code for Information Interchange, a set of codes used to represent letters, numbers, a few symbols, and control characters. Originally designed for teletype operations, it has found wide application in computers. and a range of word processing word processing, use of a computer program or a dedicated hardware and software package to write, edit, format, and print a document. Text is most commonly entered using a keyboard similar to a typewriter's, although handwritten input (see pen-based computer) and formats. Online Filtering Based on InTEXT's proven intelligent agent technology, WebInterests! does not require dictionaries or document indices. WebInterests! processes documents on the fly, a capability that ensures large quantities of documents can be rapidly processed against large numbers of user profiles and that lets companies use significantly less disk space than the push technology on the market today. Templates and Customization All user dialogs and results pages in WebInterests! originate from document templates, providing integrity to the corporate look-and-feel. Therefore, Intranet and Web developers need only design the templates once but also have the capability to customize WebInterests! to the individual feature level. High Web Site Traffic, Low Network Traffic While InTEXT WebInterests! has the potential to increase company Web Site traffic by alerting users when new information is available, it ensures that network traffic stays minimal by generating document summaries. Web developers can easily specify the sizes of documents that WebInterests! automatically summarizes, i.e. all documents over 10KB. Pricing and Availability InTEXT WebInterests! is available now for 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. and UNIX UNIX Operating system for digital computers, developed by Ken Thompson of Bell Laboratories in 1969. It was initially designed for a single user (the name was a pun on the earlier operating system Multics). (SunOS, Solaris, HP-UX HP's version of Unix that runs on its 9000 family. It is based on SVID and incorporates features from BSD Unix along with several HP innovations. (operating system) HP-UX - The version of Unix running on Hewlett-Packard workstations. , IBM (International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY, www.ibm.com) The world's largest computer company. IBM's product lines include the S/390 mainframes (zSeries), AS/400 midrange business systems (iSeries), RS/6000 workstations and servers (pSeries), Intel-based servers (xSeries) AIX (Advanced Interactive eXecutive) IBM's Unix-based operating system which runs on its Intellistation workstations and pSeries, p5, iSeries and i5 server families. ). A free demonstration of the InTEXT WebInterests! capabilities is available at www.interestalert.com . Please call InTEXT Systems at +800/547-8288 in the U.S. and Canada, +852-2523-6001 in Australia/Asia or +44-1442-230 330 in Europe, or visit http://www.intext.com for pricing and information. InTEXT Systems Inc. InTEXT Systems, with headquarters in Folsom, Calif., USA, and R&D in Canberra, Australia, makes Web Sites and Intranets smarter. The InTEXT technology is based on a unique Heuristic/Learning architecture that analyzes document surface structures to dynamically gain content knowledge of live and stored information. This unique architecture makes the InTEXT technology critical for the highly interactive and changing content of the Internet and the Web. InTEXT customers include Interest!ALERT, the Nebraska State Legislature, AT&T, Cybergraphic Systems/News Corp, Women in Technology (WITI (Women In Technology International, Sherman Oaks, CA, www.witi.com) An organization dedicated to the professional development of women in science and technology, founded in 1989. It supports regional chapters and conferences and provides ongoing opportunities for information exchange, ), South Australian Police Department, Asymetrix and the Australian National Library. InTEXT Systems is a CP Software Group company. Visit InTEXT on the Web at http://www.intext.com . -0- Note to Editors: InTEXT, WebSearch, WebInterests!, WebPak Professional and Heuristic/Learning are trademarks of InTEXT Systems, Inc. Interest!ALERT is a trademark of Interest!ALERT, Inc. All other names and products are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective owners. CONTACT: InTEXT Systems, Inc. Andrea Kauppila, 916/985-4445 73123.553@compuserve.com |
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