The Ultimate Parental Control Duo: Time's Up and SurfWatch Team Up in Retail Bundle.CORAL GABLES Coral Gables, city (1990 pop. 40,091), Miami-Dade co., SE Fla., SW of Miami; inc. 1925. Founded at the height of the Florida land boom, Coral Gables is a noted planned city, with tree-lined boulevards and Mediterranean-style buildings. , Fla. and LOS ALTOS Los Altos (lôs ăl`tōs, lŏs), residential city (1990 pop. 26,303), Santa Clara co., W Calif.; inc. 1952. There is diversified light manufacturing. , Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 13, 1996--The Fresh Software Company and SurfWatch Software Inc., recently acquired by Spyglass Inc. (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 :SPYG), today announced that two of the market's leading parental control and online management software products are now available in a single package. Time's Up! with SurfWatch provides comprehensive control of users' access to specified Windows games and applications and unwanted areas of the Internet. Available June 1, 1996 for anticipated street price of $29.95, specially marked boxes of Time's Up! will include SurfWatch, which lets parents, teachers and employers selectively filter, block or screen offensive or unwanted material off the Internet without restricting the access rights of other Internet users Internet user n → internauta m/f Internet user Internet n → internaute m/f . Time's Up! complements SurfWatch by managing online expenses and offering control over individuals' PC activities based on usage time and blocks or restricts the amount of time children, students or employees access any Windows application A program that is written to run under Microsoft's Windows operating system. Such applications typically run under all 32-bit versions of Windows, but earlier applications might also run under the 16-bit versions (Windows 3.x) as well. See Windows. , game or online service. "Time's Up with SurfWatch offers the perfect solution to the growing number of people who are concerned about the amount of time and money spent on online services as well as the negative impact of inappropriate, violent games and explicit computer sex on young children," said Rick Katz, president of The Fresh Software Company. "While there are many outstanding sites on the Internet and certainly some creative games on the market, there still needs to be a way for homes, schools and businesses to control who is using what on their PCs and for how long." Time's Up! was introduced to the market in February 1996. Since then it has gained national attention, called "Ingenious" and "One of Five Utilities Every Parent Should Have" and is distributed through retail stores nationwide. The Fresh Software Company is planning special versions of Time's Up! for the workplace and for schools that will offer enhanced features such as specialized user productivity reports. SurfWatch Software, Inc., based in Los Altos, California Los Altos (IPA: [lɔs ɑltos]) is a city at the southern end of the San Francisco Peninsula, in the San Francisco Bay Area. The city is in Santa Clara County, California, United States. , is pioneering the development of new technologies for the Internet. SurfWatch was acquired in April 1996 by Spyglass, Inc.(NASDAQ:SPYG), a leading licenser of World-Wide Web (World-Wide Web, networking, hypertext) World-Wide Web - (WWW, W3, The Web) An Internet client-server hypertext distributed information retrieval system which originated from the CERN High-Energy Physics laboratories in Geneva, Switzerland. client and server technology. SurfWatch Software, Inc. was the first company to ship Internet software for blocking access to inappropriate material and has licensed Internet filtering technology to the on-line services industry. SurfWatch Software can be reached at 415/948-9500, info(at)surfwatch.com, or via the World Wide Web at http://www.surfwatch.com. The Fresh Software Company (FSC FSC See: Foreign Sales Corporation ) is a Florida corporation with a mission of developing and marketing niche Microsoft Windows See Windows. (operating system) Microsoft Windows - Microsoft's proprietary window system and user interface software released in 1985 to run on top of MS-DOS. Widely criticised for being too slow (hence "Windoze", "Microsloth Windows") on the machines available then. software applications. The company was founded in February 1995 by Fran and Rick Katz. FSC is the general partner of Fresh Software, Ltd., a Florida limited partnership. This FSC news release can be obtained 24 hours a day by calling Pat Meier Associates' information-on-demand fax system at 415/957-9060 or on the agency's web site at http://www.patmeier.com. CONTACT: SurfWatch Software, Inc., Jay Friedland, 415/948-9500; Fax 415/948-9577 jay(at)surfwatch.com or The Fresh Software Company, Marta Beltran, 415/957-5999; Fax 415/957-1733 mbeltran(at)patmeier.com |
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