Frontier Technologies wins international award for innovative and user friendly CD-ROM product; acclaimed CyberSearch wins Information World Review's 1995 CD-ROM Product of the Year Award

Business Wire, Dec 13, 1995

LONDON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec. 13, 1995--Frontier Technologies' CyberSearch(TM) product has been awarded Information World Review magazine's prestigious 1995 CD-ROM Product of the Year Award.

This award was presented last week in London at Learned Information's International Online Information '95 conference.

``In a year that has seen the World Wide Web achieve mass appeal, and one in which online and CD-ROM technologies have begun to merge, we felt it appropriate that the 1995 Information World Review CD-ROM of the Year Award should go to a product that successfully exploited these two interesting developments -- something that Frontier Technologies' CyberSearch clearly does,'' said Richard Poynder, editor of Information World Review.

CyberSearch integrates a vast database of Internet resources with a high-performance Internet Browser, allowing users to search for sites before connecting to the Internet. Once they do go online, users can download multiple Internet sources at once, thereby increasing productivity. The database is Lycos(TM), developed by Carnegie Mellon University.

The conference focused on the electronic information industry, content providers and online and CD-ROM vendors. Seven other awards in different categories were also presented at the Online Information Conference. The Information World Review CD-ROM of the Year Award is presented every year at the International Online Meeting held in London in early December.

The January 1996 edition of CyberSearch includes upgrades to the Browser, including support for Johnson-Grace's ART 2.0 file compression technology. ART Technology compresses large graphic images and sound into one highly compressed file, allowing users to rapidly download files over even slow Internet connections, and simultaneously display graphics and play back sound as the file downloads. For instance, a user can take a 23K BMP image file and a 334K WAV sound file and compress the two into a single 13K ART file.

Each CD-ROM contains a newly compiled version of Lycos, covering over 500,000 Internet locations indexed by keyword.

SuperHighway Access CyberSearch, Internet Organizer and SuperHighway Access are trademarks of Frontier Technologies Corp. Lycos is a trademark of Carnegie Mellon University.

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CONTACT: Frontier Technologies Corp., Mequon, Wis.

Ann M. Krauss, 520/797-0583

Email: Ann@Frontiertech.com

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Nicole E. Rogers, 414/241-4555 ext. 293

Email: NicoleR@Frontiertech.com