NEW YORK: As technology companies nervously await potential fall-out from Y2K glitches, eWatch has added special Y2K weekend coverage to monitor public discussion and news stories about its customers’ Y2K preparations.
NEW YORK: As technology companies nervously await potential
fall-out from Y2K glitches, eWatch has added special Y2K weekend
coverage to monitor public discussion and news stories about its
customers’ Y2K preparations.
’They’d rather be safe than sorry,’ said eWatch president James
Alexander.
’The thinking is that it’s smart to spend a few minutes over the weekend
reading eWatch reports, rather than coming in on Monday to discover
major fires burning.’
Because of this, eWatch is offering daily reports between Friday,
December 31 and Sunday, January 2. The added weekend monitoring costs
dollars 495, and is only available to current eWatch customers. Those
who are not customers can sign up for a month of regular monitoring and
the Y2K coverage for dollars 2,490.
eWatch monitors more than 1,000 editorial-based sites on the Web; more
than 63,000 Usenet groups and electronic mailing lists; hundreds of
public discussion areas on AOL, Prodigy, CompuServe and MSN and
finance/investor bulletin boards on Yahoo!, Motley Fool and Silicon
Investor.
eWatch clients who do not sign up for the service will receive their
regular reports on Monday. Alexander said the company expects 75% of its
customers to sign up for the weekend service.
