Newsburger^SM with Fries for November 11, 1999

• the first-ever network of e-commerce ATMs (i-TMs) being introduced this month by Media Designs International at select Texaco service stations.

  Texaco customers will be able to use an on-screen display on the new i-TMs to get a map of any US location as well as door-to-door driving directions from the service station to their final destination. In addition to maps and driving directions, Texaco i-TMs will also feature e-commerce services and traditional ATM functionality.

• NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 8, 1999--Answering a long-time demand of Internet users on-the-go, CAIS Internet introduced today the hospitality industry's inaugural, customized, Content Portal -- and announced its plans to deliver the CAIS Portal to every traveler passing through the 1.1 million hotel rooms under master agreement to deliver high speed Internet access with the broadband company. The CAIS portal site, which draws more than 110 top Internet content providers, was today unveiled at the International Hotel/Motel & Restaurant Show in New York City.
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• Emerging Online Activities

  Internet consumers are interested in a full range of emerging online activities - particularly newly developed online photo services.

  Eighty-six percent report that they are very interested or somewhat interested in being able to send and receive pictures from friends and family online. Among younger Internet users, music is the hot new application, with 61% of 18-24 year-olds listening to music online. Even more pronounced, the Youth Cyberstudy shows that more than three-quarters (76%) of 9-17 year-olds are interested in downloading music.

  Signaling growing interest in accessing the Internet from connected devices other than the PC, 41% of Internet consumers are interested in being able to go online using a cellular phone or personal organizer, and 35% in being able to go online from public booths or kiosks. Similarly, close to two-thirds of online users (64%) would be interested in being able to check their telephone voice mail using their computer.

  Among the other activities drawing interest include taking a class online (69%), holding video conferences with friends or family members (67%), voting or registering to vote online (64%), or paying their bills online (55%).

  The second annual America Online/Roper Starch Cyberstudy, a sample of approximately 1,000 adult Americans who use online or Internet services from home, reveals how and why they use the medium, how it is affecting their lives and society, what prompts their activity online, and their thoughts about its future impact.

• Server-based computing expert Jim Crocco of Netier Technologies joins a panel discussion chaired by Greg Blatnik of Zona Research at COMDEX/Fall '99 to explain how thin-client computers can out-perform PCs to access the Internet and manage and conduct e-commerce.

• NPD Online Research Finds More Individuals are Pointing and Clipping With Online Coupons; Thirty Percent Of The Web Population Are Saving With E-Coupons

  Nearly one-third of Internet users are pointing and clipping their way to savings via online coupons, according to a new study by NPD Online Research, a division of leading marketing information provider The NPD Group.

• NCR Corporation, a world leader in retail store automation solutions, today announced that Rainbow Foods, a corporate division of Fleming, has installed NCR's DecisioNet electronic shelf labels in three supermarkets in the Minneapolis area.

• SRI Consulting's Business Intelligence Center today released the study "Hybrid Online/On-Land Strategies for Internet Commerce," which analyzes strategies that traditional retailers can use to leverage their "on-land" expertise within their online operations.

• Albertson's, Inc. , one of the nation's leading grocery chains, today announced, the launch of www.Albertsons.com -- the newest concept in full-service online grocery ordering and shopping.