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PointCast

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The first major deployment of push technology on the Web. Introduced in 1996 and supported by ad revenues, PointCast provided Internet-based news and customized information to the desktop. In 1999, LaunchPad Technologies acquired the product and turned it into EntryPoint, which later became Infogate. See Infogate.

The PointCast Screen
PointCast "pushed" a lot of information into the user's machine. Its successor product kept the details on the Web and provided an "entry point" to them. (Screen examples courtesy of EntryPoint, Inc.)



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com (Life Section), CompuServe (Go:InteliHealth) and PointCast (Health Channel), as well as quarterly magazine supplements, radio health minutes and television commentaries.
PHARMACEUTICAL INQUIRY INDEX LAUNCHED ON INTERNET by Online Product News
Accompanied with a ton of hype, Pointcast came on the scene in early 1996 as a news delivery service using another highly touted technology called "Push.
Make technology your friend by White, Chuck / Communication World
COM, a leading on-line real estate site, have announced a new edition of the PointCast Business Network - The PointCast Business Network Real Estate Insider.
New real estate news site makes Web debut by Real Estate Weekly
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