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PointCast was a company founded in 1992 by Christopher R. Hassett in Sunnyvale, California.
The company's initial product amounted to a screensaver that displayed news and other information, delivered live over the Internet. The PointCast Network used push technology, which was a hot concept at the time, and received enormous press coverage when it launched in Beta form on February 13, 1996. The product did not perform as well as expected, in part because its traffic burdened corporate networks...
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