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OFS solution - 12th January 2001
Icona is presenting a "Real Time News Broadcasting service” based on the OFS framework at eBusiness 2001

eBusiness 2001 - 11th January 2001
Icona and Sun together at eBusiness 2001

OFS solution - 12th January 2001
Milan, 12th January 2001 - Icona will be presenting a demo, based on the OFS framework, of a Real Time News Broadcasting service at eBusiness 2001.
Tuned into continuing market demands, Icona will soon be providing an SDK capable of interfacing with our OFS framework; this will allow us, and third parties as well, to create exclusive Agents to produce custom services for instantly controlling targeted contents for every user based on personal profiles; Real Time News Broadcasting will be among the services that can be set up with special agents.
OFS, the very hub of our company, will thereby gain a further distinctive feature on the world Instant Messaging scene.
The OFS platform will make it possible to provide the fullest range of services and applications for the world of digital interaction on the Internet.
The above-mentioned features make OFS an ideal software layer for developing all kinds of on-line services; chat lines, instant messaging, real-time news broadcasting, wireless handling, instant auctioning, web call center, on-line training and Web experts are just some of the facilities supported by the platform.
Moreover, bearing in mind that clients are all devices with their own IP addresses, the range of potential applications extends from PCs (Windows, Mac) to mobile phones (Wap, GPRS, Umts) and even palm computers.
OFS allows firms to take instant advantage of the potential offered by Internet users; our design model means we can quickly release a tailored application so as to provide and present services and contents customised to various users’ profiles.
Here is a more detailed look at some of the applications of the OFS framework:

• Buddy List (Presence Awareness)
• Instant Messaging
• Peer-to-Peer
• File Transfer
• Audio/Video chat
• Multichat
• Audio/Video Conferencing
• Real Time News Broadcasting
• Offline Messaging
• Browser and Banner/Ad Servers integration
• InterServer Communication
• Protocol integration

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eBusiness 2001 - 11th January 2001
Milan, 11th January 2001 - Icona, a leading Instant Communication provider, will be taking part with Sun Microsystems at eBusiness 2001, the first international event dedicated to the world of eBusiness to be held at the Milan Trade Fair from 18th-20th January.
Icona will be using this new showcase of e-business and computer security-related problems to demonstrate the versatility and security of its own OFS environment (Online Framework Solution). OFS can be used to provide lots of Instant Communication services that draw on “presence awareness” to allow communication between users and supply information in real-time.
The all-modular OFS framework allows quick peer-to-peer type on-line communication (for direct exchanges of Text Messages, File Transfers, Audio/Video and co-Browsing between users of the same system), by means of different client technologies (Win32, Java, Wml/Wap, WinCE, PalmOS) and by setting up innovative Internet services (Buddy List, Instant Messaging, Offline messaging, Multichat, Conferencing, File Sharing/Swapping, Real Time News Broadcasting) providing the most prestigious portals with services for offering to their own clients. Built using Sun/Solaris architecture, OFS offers performance, security, and scalability to anyone interested in acquiring it. Icona has devised a special protocol called OFS ICPP to ensure all the information moving between client and server is kept private and not intercepted. Light in terms of operating overheads to guarantee almost no impact on system performance, OFS ICPP implements its own internal software mechanism to camouflage data and make information spoofing more difficult.
At eBusiness 2001, Icona will be presenting a demo, based on the OFS framework, of a Real Time News Broadcasting application, illustrating OFS’s new SDK, which will allow exclusive Agents to be set up for custom applications instantly controlling targeted contents for each user based on personal profiles, as well as the beta of Livecare’s new 3.0 release, whose most innovative features will be the introduction of a “Contact Center” module for handling Web contacts and the opening of three more communication channels (Audio/Video, e-Mail and Call-me-Back) to back up the conventional chat line.
Two fine examples of OFS applications will be on display inside an exhibition totem; visitors will actually get the chance to try out the latest two company services: kwMessenger for the Kataweb portal and Livecare for the Zivago portal.

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