Excite@Home Speeds Installation Of The @Home Service
Excite@Home (Nasdaq: ATHM), a global media company and the leading provider of broadband Internet services via the cable infrastructure, today announced the release of @Home 1.7, the latest version of the client software for the @Home broadband Internet service. @Home 1.7's new ""self-install"" feature allows subscribers to install the software in one, easy step. @Home 1.7 also adds two new plug-ins that improve subscribers video and multi-media experience - VeonPlayer and MetaCreation's MetaStream. In addition, @Home and Tioga Systems developed a new ""reset tool"" that is included in @Home 1.7, self-healing software agent that quickly resolves common problems experienced by users. ""As we rapidly grow, we are continually enhancing the @Home service software to speed the installation process and deliver a unique multimedia Internet experience to our subscribers,"" said Jonathan Rosenberg, Vice President of Product Marketing. ""@Home 1.7 helps us do it through its ""express install"" feature. And with our updated set of plug-ins, our subscribers get all of the latest tools for a faster, smoother, and richer multi-media experience of the @Home service."" @Home 1.7 gives @Home subscribers the latest Internet software in one place for a fast, interactive Internet experience. It includes a choice of Internet Explorer 5 or Netscape 4.61, VeonPlayer, Shockwave7, Flash 4, RealPlayer G2, Quicktime 4, the @Home Assistant, and Tioga Self-Healing Software. Microsoft's Internet Explorer 5 represents a major improvement over Internet Explorer 4 in terms of stability, speed and ease of use. About Excite@Home Excite@Home is a global media company based in Redwood City, California. Through the company's narrowband portal, Excite (http://www.excite.com), and broadband services, @Home and @Work, the company uniquely offers consumers content and interactive services across both narrowband and broadband. The rich media advertising and database marketing solutions of Enliven (http://www.enliven.com) and MatchLogic (http://www.matchlogic.com) offer advertisers highly targeted interactive marketing and reporting services across all platforms of delivery. Leveraging the high-speed, always-on attributes of cable, Excite@Home empowers unique multimedia applications that go beyond current Web experiences. The company will combine the Excite brand-one of the best known names on the Internet with 70 percent recognition among Web users-with the @Home broadband service's broad distribution, a worldwide footprint of 67 million cable homes, to deliver on its vision of ""All Band, All Device, All the Time.""