Re: Netsurfer

Bill Bumgarner (bbum@demiurge.friday.com)
Wed, 12 Apr 95 23:15:39 -0500


There was a recent [april 4] press release announcing a ship date of April
24-- contents of the press release are enclosed.

That particular feature of OmniWeb [services->search in...] is one of the
few remaining that Netsurfer doesn't do better [and the only reason why OW
has been launched on my system over the course of the last week :-].

BTW: here's a convenient little trick if you find yourself using the
webcrawler or lycos long forms to narrow your searches a bit... grab the
html doc and make it local-- then the long forms are only a double-click
away. If anyone wants 'em, I have a lycos long-form that allows you to
throw queries at either query1 or query2 without having to get the bloody
form from cmu's rather over-worked server.

b.bum

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

For more information contact:

Jeff Russell
Netsurfer, Inc.
430 Tenth St. N.W.
Suite N-105
Atlanta, GA 30318 USA
(404) 815-1050
jrussell@netsurfer.com
http://www.netsurfer.com

Netsurfer Announces NetsurferTM For NEXTSTEPTM

Atlanta, GA, April 4, 1995 - Netsurfer, Inc. announces new Internet
access software that runs on NEXTSTEPTM and soon, OpenStepTM. The software,
NetsurferTM, provides integrated World-Wide Web, Gopher, and FTP access to
Personal Computers and Workstations connected to the Internet, all with an
easy-to-use NEXTSTEP graphical interface. Netsurfer 1.0 will begin shipping
for all NEXTSTEP hardware platforms on April 24.

Netsurfer is the most advanced, easy-to-use Internet access software
available on any computing platform. Netsurfer gives users a simple, icon
based index for saving and retrieving frequently accessed Internet
resources. In addition to a multimedia browser for World-Wide Web and
Gopher based resources, Netsurfer also provides a graphical browser for
navigating FTP file archive servers. Netsurfer features a fully
multi-threaded interface, allowing users to perform multiple operations
simultaneously. Netsurfer will support the upcoming Secure HTTP
specification from the W3 Internet Standards Consortium, providing the
capability of performing user authentication and secure transactions over
the Internet.

In mid-1995, Netsurfer will ship an add-on to Netsurfer, Netsurfer NewsTM,
that provides a feature-rich interface for reading and posting both
plain-text and multimedia enriched (MIME) Internet (USENET) news articles.
Netsurfer News adds seamless news reading capability to Netsurfer's simple,
easy-to-use graphical interface.

Netsurfer will be available directly from Netsurfer via electronic
distribution. A single user license for Netsurfer is priced at $195 US.
Academic discount price is $39 US. Site licenses are available.
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Netsurfer, Inc. produces easy-to-use graphical software that allows
individuals and organizations to access resources available on the global
Internet computer network. Netsurfer and Netsurfer News are trademarks of
Netsurfer, Inc. NEXTSTEP and OpenStep are trademarks of Next Computer, Inc.