| March 19, 1998 |
DURAND COMMUNICATIONS, INC. ENTERS INTO AGREEMENT TO BE ACQUIRED BY ONLINE
SYSTEM SERVICES, INC. FOR $9.9 MILLION IN STOCK
Online System Services to issue 1,003,000 shares of restricted common stock valued at approximately $9.9 million in return for all of the outstanding shares of privately held Durand. This deal is designed to boost local content for broadband operators. 
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| February 10, 1998 |
Durand and Electronic University Network to launch Pangaea Network
Durand and the Electronic University Network will create and market a new online service, the Pangaea Networksm, which will be wholly devoted to education and training online. The Pangaea Network will run on Durand's CommunityWare? platform, making it accessible to a global audience from anywhere on the web. The Pangaea Network will provide complete virtual campuses, as well as a package of marketing and publishing services to universities, public schools and corporate training centers, at a fraction of what it would cost an organization to develop and operate its own online services for its own students.
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| January 13, 1998 |
Durand aquires Electronic University Network
The Electronic University Network™ is an organization which for 14 years has focused on distance learning solutions for universities, public schools and corporate training centers. Together Durand and EUN will create and market a new online service, The World Knowledge Network™ (WKN), which will be wholly devoted to education and training online. The World Knowledge Network will run on Durand's new CommunityWare™ platform, making it accessible to a global audience from anywhere on the web.
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| Sept 17, 1997 |
Durand Partners with the Computing Technology Industry Association
(CompTIA)
Durand Communications, Inc. has partnered with CompTIA (Computing Technology Industry Association) to use CommunityWare? for the deployment of intranet and extranet communications between CompTIA and its 7,500 member organizations. CommunityWare will serve as the communications platform to connect CompTIA's member organizations, task force committees and internally organized bodies through online conferencing, groupware and other interactive Web-based services.
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| August 20, 1997 |
Electric Minds Beta-Tests New Conferencing Platform as Rheingold Signs On
Durand announces today a deal with Electric Minds creator, Howard Rheingold. Rheingold will be responsible for building and hosting the Host University, community consulting and arranging high-profile online events, as he did with IBM’s chess competition, Deep Blue vs. Kasparov. As of September 14, the contract between Electric Minds and its current conferencing platform expires, thus Durand will also be migrating the entire Electric Minds community to CommunityWare.
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| July 15, 1997 |
Electric Minds Join Durand. Site Moved to Santa Barbara
Recently, bridge financing fell through for Electric Minds, leaving the company without the necessary funds required to capitalize on its latest online events successes. Now, Durand Communications has stepped forward to keep Electric Minds online and intact, with founder Howard Rheingold still actively involved with growing the community.
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| June 20, 1997 |
CommunityWare Upgraded with New Interface and Additional Features With the new release, CommunityWare is the first Internet service to allow secured, instantaneous file transfers through the Web, giving users the ability to send any computer file to another user instantly and in a completely secured environment. Other features in this release include an enhanced interface; easier navigation; secure, real-time file transfers; a host audit trail; enhanced Web site management tools; enhanced group email capabilities; and the ability to subscribe to discussion forums via email. |
| May 19, 1997 |
Durand Announces FREE Intranet Software-MINDWIRE NT Businesses can build secure, private Intranets in less than a day with MindWire’s free two-user version, now available for download. This new version of MindWire NT provides businesses and other organizations a cost-effective and time-saving solution in creating and managing a secured private Intranet or Extranet for more efficient communication and information sharing between remote offices. |
| April 30, 1997 |
CommunityWare Integrates Wave Systems' WINPublish The integration of WINPublish into CommunityWare gives the host of each community the ability to sell published Web content of any kind to their community members. As WINPublishers, CommunityWare hosts possess simple, secure and cost-effective tools with which to sell published information to their community members. |
| March 12, 1997 |
CommunityWare Allows Users to Create Secure "Virtual Intranets" for $3 a Month
Durand’s revolutionary "Social Operating System" empowers schools, associations and organizations with full-service communications and groupware. Current tools and applications within each online community include live messaging, live chat, group discussion forums, email groupware, the ability to see all current live users and a community newsletter.
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| March 12, 1997 |
Durand and WTC Online Form Durand Brazil
Durand has announced a strategic partnership with Brazil’s premier Internet Service Provider, WTC Online of Sao Paulo. Through the agreement, a new company was formed called Durand Brazil which now holds the exclusive distribution rights for Durand’s CommunityWare and MindWire products in Brazil. |
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