Seattle Lab, Seattle Index Team Up to Offer Free Virtual Office Accounts for Area Businesses.SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug. 12, 1999-- Two Seattle area companies - Seattle Lab, developer of Web-based software for Windows, and Seattle Index.com, the area's only business-to-business online directory, - have teamed up to offer free virtual office accounts for the local business community. Visitors to www.seattleindex.com can easily create accounts and access Millennium Office, Seattle Lab's virtual office software suite that offers secure access to essential office tools -- including email, address book, calendar, fax, message bank and expense report. "With Seattle Index's emphasis as a business portal offering tools such as extended listings, a resource guide and an on-line mall, Millennium Office is a natural fit," said L.A. Heberlein, resident of Seattle Lab. "Millennium Office provides a free value-added service A value-added service (VAS) is a telecommunications industry term for non-core services or, in short, all services beyond standard voice calls and fax transmissions. for visitors to Seattle Index.com's Web site, giving people an additional reason for returning to the site." Millennium Office is a highly scalable 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. application that is designed to provide access to all essential office tools via a 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. , so that users can access information anywhere, anytime. Portal sites Noun 1. portal site - a site that the owner positions as an entrance to other sites on the internet; "a portal typically has search engines and free email and chat rooms etc. , like Seattle Index.com, or ISPs can offer Web-fronted virtual office services to local Internet users Internet user n → internauta m/f Internet user Internet n → internaute m/f , gaining user loyalty for their sites. "We are proud of our alliance with Seattle Lab and are excited to offer Millennium Office as another business resource on www.seattleindex.com," said Liz Havlin, director of marketing for Seattle Index.com. "Millennium Office plays a key role in the Seattle Index.com complete business solution." Havlin believes that professional business organizations will use Seattle Index's Millennium Office to conduct business quickly and efficiently. "Seattle Index.com is the place to go for business news and features, marketing tips and a comprehensive business resource guide," Havlin said. "Businesses from every industry will use Millennium Office on Seattle Index.com as a comprehensive communication tool." About Seattle Lab Seattle Lab is a leader in the development of Web-based server software for Windows. Founded in 1989 and based in Kirkland, WA, the privately held company privately held company A firm whose shares are held within a relatively small circle of owners and are not traded publicly. has been on the forefront of Windows NT development since NT's release. For more information, visit www.seattlelab.com. About Seattle Index.com SeattleIndex.com is a complete local business resource, featuring a directory of over 75,000 local businesses, daily news and in-depth features, as well as a full range of Internet Internet Publicly accessible computer network connecting many smaller networks from around the world. It grew out of a U.S. Defense Department program called ARPANET (Advanced Research Projects Agency Network), established in 1969 with connections between computers at the services including E-commerce development and DSL DSL in full Digital Subscriber Line Broadband digital communications connection that operates over standard copper telephone wires. It requires a DSL modem, which splits transmissions into two frequency bands: the lower frequencies for voice (ordinary Internet connectivity. For more information, visit www.seattleindex.com. |
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