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WBN ANNOUNCES FIRST SEARCHABLE TELEVISION CHANNELS FOR BUSINESS NEWS ON
Desktop PCs
New Technology Enables Corporations to Customize Video and Text
Information,
Creating Private Multimedia Channels for Each Desktop
GARTNER SYMPOSIUM/ITEXPO '97, LAKE BUENA VISTA, Fla., Oct. 7
/PRNewswire/ -- At the Gartner Group Symposium today, Worldwide
Broadcasting Network (WBN) introduced 451F, a powerful multimedia
search and retrieval service that transforms traditional video feeds
and programs into customized television channels accessible from a
desktop PC. Unlike traditional news clipping services, this new, fully
automated technology enables customers to search vast streams of video
content and parse them into clips, which can be indexed and delivered
on-demand or in real-time. Based upon the word categories chosen by
the user, the video clips will be commingled with other related text
content to create customized information channels.
WBN is demonstrating 451F this week in their exhibit booth #1009 at
the Gartner Group's Annual Symposium in Lake Buena Vista, Florida. To
demonstrate the customization capabilities of 451F, WBN is integrating
news and information from leading national and international content
providers such as CNN Headline News, MSNBC Business Video, Nightly
Business Report, Morning Business Report, C-SPAN, WCVB-TV from Boston
and INDIVIDUAL, INC...
These programs include news feeds and roundtable
discussions, business and financial updates, professional training
programs and government testimony.
WBN Makes Video Relevant to the Business Market
The unique parsing and indexing capabilities of 451F are key to
this technology's importance to business. "[It] opens up a huge
potential market for using video that has been topically segmented and
indexed," said Michael Goulde, vice president and senior consultant
with Seybold Group, in a recent issue of Seybold's Weekly e-Bulletin
(Sept. 15, 1997). "The amount of information locked away in videos is
enormous, as is the opportunity for WBN to bring that information to
Web sites and desktops throughout the world. We believe that WBN's
451F technology has broad applications and will appeal to a wide
variety of customers."
"We can all wade through information from a myriad of sources -- the
Web, TV news, print media and videos," said WBN CEO Dariush Gholizadeh.
"451F drastically changes audio, video and text information delivery by
allowing users in news, communications, finance and other businesses to
be selective about what, when and how much information they want to
see."
How 451F Technology Works
The 451F system is powered by proprietary video segmentation and
content management software running on Windows NT. It supports leading
third-party video encoders, video servers and databases.
It uses open Internet protocols so that any user with a desktop PC and
Web browser can create and access a commingled information channel.
To set up the 451F's customization feature, the user enters key words.
The key words set up a master profile of topics and categories that
create an intelligent agent to seek and gather only relevant
information. Each employee has the option of narrowing his searches by
creating a personal profile that includes subsets of topics from the
company's master file.
Users view their customized information by accessing a 451F Web site
that stores their file and all relevant multimedia information. Users
can select from event-driven and on-demand delivery options.
Additional 451F features include:
-- Segmented and indexed live video
-- On-demand and real-time "event-driven" distribution
-- Related video and text stories integrated into one comprehensive
desktop platform
-- Customizable page layout, update frequency and distribution
methods
-- Filtered stories based on user-defined categories and keywords
-- Control of individual employee usage and access privileges.
Minimum user requirements include a Pentium PC with sound card; 16
MB RAM; Windows 95 or NT 4.0; Web browser; 10 MB free disk space.
Pricing and Availability
The 451F service is priced on a monthly subscription basis per
enterprise. Customers using 451F create a direct network connection to
WBN's local Internet Service Provider.
If a customer already has an existing text news information service,
WBN can link directly to that service. The 451F service is now
available through WBN.
About WBN
Worldwide Broadcasting Network (WBN) founded in 1996, is a
privately held company and a leading provider of multimedia content
management solutions for corporations and content providers. WBN's
proprietary technologies enable organizations to search and retrieve
live video feeds and commingles them with text and Web-based
information sources. WBN's products use open Internet standards that
allow customers to use their existing PC and intranet infrastructure.
WBN has a headquarters in Cambridge, MA, and offices in New York City.
NOTE: All WBN news releases are available on the WBN World Wide Web
site wbnet.com and at Lois Paul and Partners/Recent Ink
Section loispaul.com .
CO: Worldwide Broadcasting Network ST: Florida, Massachusetts,
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