BOSTON, March 23, 2004 (PRIMEZONE) -- Intelligent Compression Technologies, Inc. (ICT) announced today that Microsoft Corp. has signed a Licensing Agreement for ICT's acceleration product, AcceleNet(tm), to power MSN Dial-up Accelerator (1), a key feature of the latest version of Microsoft's MSN 9 Dial-up Internet Access service. Launched on January 8, 2004, MSN 9 Dial-up provides fast and reliable Internet access with premium MSN features to optimize the time customers spend online, accelerating their web browsing and communication, including e-mail.
AcceleNet provides accelerated speeds and compressed data transfers on dial up 56k modems (used by MSN 9 Dial-up) as well as wireless (2G, 2.5G and 3G) and satellite networks. AcceleNet provides significantly faster download and upload speeds for email with attachments, web browsing and file transfer applications.
"We are delighted that Microsoft has chosen ICT's AcceleNet as a supporting technology for MSN 9 Dial-up," said Michael Slygh, President of ICT. "It is gratifying to be working with Microsoft to deliver the premiere acceleration solution in the dial-up, ISP market."
"MSN's goal with MSN 9 is to help our dial-up customers be more efficient, by making everyday communication more convenient and helping protect them while online. Increasing the speed with which our dial-up customers access the Internet is a critical piece of this," said Lisa Gurry, director, MSN. "The superior technology of AcceleNet enables us to enhance our dial-up service offering for customers by offering faster access to the services they care about."
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About Intelligent Compression Technologies, Inc.
Intelligent Compression Technologies, Inc., a privately held company located in Quincy, MA, provides patented software compression and network acceleration products for the Communications, Internet, and Networking industries where data delivery speed over a relatively limited bandwidth is an issue. ICT's AcceleNet(tm) product enables wide-area wireless networks (i.e. 2G) to operate at 56kbps modem-like speeds and next generation networks (i.e. 2.5G/3G) as well as Dial-Up 56kbps lines to operate at Broadband-like speeds, enabling fast remote access to Email with attachments, corporate applications, Intranets and the Web. ICT also licenses compression software to OEMs, which dramatically shrinks Microsoft Office(tm) files, XML data and common web images to enable faster file transfers, software delivery and reduced storage capacity. Visit ICT at www.ictcompress.com
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