InfoCast Teams with EnglishPractice.com to Launch Next Generation Online Learning Destination
E-Enabling ASP and Glovil Software to Offer Free English Language Lessons to Global Market
TORONTO, Jan. 17 /CNW/ -- INFOCAST CORPORATION
(OTC Bulletin Board: IFCC), the leading e-Enabling application service provider (ASP), today announced a new working alliance with Glovil Software Inc., the creator of EnglishPractice.com, the world's premier Internet English language teaching website.
InfoCast will provide Glovil with the technical and business architecture necessary to increase their global share of English as a Second Language (ESL) online users. InfoCast will port EnglishPractice.com to a more scaleable Unix platform, and then host Glovil's software on InfoCast's Sun Microsystems super-computer i-Hub infrastructure. The InfoCast alliance will also enable Glovil to expand its resources to include e-Commerce.
EnglishPractice.com is a free, online application that offers interactive English instruction, and earns Glovil revenues through an advertising-based revenue model. EnglishPractice.com currently has more than 250,000 registered newsletter members, and users spend approximately 29 minutes per day at the site. The newsletter, The English Times, includes Flycast.com advertising and is Flycast's largest subscription-based account.
The InfoCast partnership will enable EnglishPractice.com to expand its market share and increase the number of banner
advertisements it currently hosts.
"Glovil has already proven that they have a winning product," says Jim Leech, president and CEO of InfoCast. "We are looking forward to working with Glovil to help them expand both their product offerings and their market
share. This alliance is an example of how InfoCast as an e-Enabling ASP can provide infrastructure on demand for growing dot-com enterprises."
"EnglishPractice.com allows people the world over to learn English at no cost," says Jason Heibert, founding partner of
Glovil Software. "Advertisers use our site to promote their products to our students, who are usually affluent and upwardly mobile, and we earn a revenue stream through these advertisements. All in all, it is a 'win-win-win situation."
"Our lesson content is superior to any of our competitors," says Derek Kunz, founding partner of Glovil Software, "and this gives us a distinct advantage. Our students keep coming back to EnglishPractice.com, and throughout the New Year we expect the number of visitors to dramatically increase. Teaming with InfoCast will ensure that we can continue to provide our customers with a dependable and reliable source of free online English lessons and will guarantee that our revenue stream continues to grow."
About InfoCast
InfoCast Corporation is the leading E-enabling application service provider (ASP), providing secure, scalable
infrastructure-on-demand for enterprises to build closer relationships with customers, partners, and employees. Core InfoCast offerings include virtual call center(VCC),telework, and E-learning applications coupled with related best-of-breed offerings for customer care, data warehousing, and E-commerce. More information about InfoCast Corporation can be found on the Web at www.infocast-corp.com.
About Glovil Software Inc.
Glovil Software Inc. was founded by Jason Hiebert and Derek Kunz in March of 1998. Glovil is an experienced software
and web development company with high growth potential. It has developed EnglishPractice.com, a free English language
teaching web site that is used by a global audience through the Internet. EnglishPractice.com is an online application that uses an advertising based revenue model. Results to date have shown that there is increasing demand for free English as a second language online instruction. EnglishPractice.com is a market leader in providing content to these users.
This press release contains forward-looking statements. These factors, which could cause actual results to differ materially from those expressed or implied in the forward-looking statements.
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For further information: Christopher Rouse, Vice President, Marketing, crouse@infocast-corp.com, or Cliff A. Jones, Investor Relations, cjones@infocast-corp.com, both of InfoCast Corporation, Toll Free: 877-338-8889
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