Teleshuttle Corporation
Landmark Developments [not current]

Note: Teleshuttle's proprietary software and online operations services are no longer marketed.
Please view the consulting information on the Teleshuttle home page.
The information shown dates from 1996 or earlier, and remains relevant to the history of CD/online/Web hybrid technology.

• August, 1994: Teleshuttle announced the first independent software and services to make it easy for any publisher to link CD-ROMs or diskettes to up-to-the-minute online information. Wide press recognition and strong interest from a broad spectrum of publishers, developers, and marketers was received. The company was initially known as Dynashuttle Corporation.
  
  
• August, 1994: Vista InterMedia (Stamford, CT) agreed to use Teleshuttle's Update Service for CD-ROM publication of the World Health Organization's International Digest of Health Legislation. Teleshuttle is to provide users worldwide with quarterly updates, which are seamlessly integrated, with full-text search capabilities. Other Vista titles in the legal and healthcare market will also use Teleshuttle, including its NAFTA disc featuring materials licensed from the American Bar Association.
  
  
• October, 1994: Folio Corporation (Provo, UT, subsidiary of Reed Elsevier) agreed to cooperate in developing and marketing a Teleshuttle plug-in for Folio VIEWS that can retrieve Folio infobase updates via modem. VIEWS is the delivery mechanism for more than one thousand commercial information titles and resides on an estimated 30 million desktops. The Teleshuttle/VIEWS module (shipped in February 1995) seamlessly combines the latest available data with infobases previously distributed on CD-ROM or disk. Teleshuttle fully integrates with the VIEWS user interface and exploits Folio's latest "shadow file" features.
  
  
• November, 1994: Electronic Book Technologies (EBT, Providence, RI) agreed to cooperate in developing and marketing a Teleshuttle plug-in for EBT's DynaText that provides simple direct-dial data transport. EBT provides a comprehensive SGML-based electronic publishing environment, used by hundreds of major corporations to publish large volumes of mission-critical reference material online. The first joint product is to make it easy for DynaText users in the field to send document annotations, such as change and problem reports, to a central facility via Teleshuttle.
  
  
• May, 1995: Teleshuttle announced plans to add Internet connectivity as an alternative to its existing direct-dial support. This furthers Teleshuttle's objective of providing a single standard mechanism for enabling local/online hybrid products that can exploit multiple network technologies. It adds Internet capability for those users who can use it, while maintaining direct-dial support for the vast majority of modem-equipped users who do not yet choose to subscribe to Internet services.
  
  
• July, 1995: The Blockbuster Video Guide to Movies and Videos was shipped by Creative Multimedia (Portland, OR) as the first consumer CD-ROM to use the Teleshuttle Update Service, and the first electronic movie guide with online updates. The disc has information on more than 21,000 movies, including 5,000 photos and 40 film clips. It is updated monthly with 80-100 new video titles, with a charge to the user's credit card. Seamless searching and hyperlinking across the entire updated collection is provided.
  
  
• September, 1995: The WebShuttle(tm) was introduced as the way to offer free, direct-dial access to Web content to customers who lack Internet service. Disks containing the WebShuttle can be provided to customers, so that anyone with a modem can get simple 800 number access to selected sets of Web pages.