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4/26/00
PC Magazine Names Contact Networks 'A Top 100 Web
Site'
Web-Based Contact Manager and Platform for
Interpersonal Wireless Services Lauded by Leading Technology Magazine
Prior to Actual Release.
REDWOOD SHORES, Calif., April 26, 2000 - PC Magazine, the leading technology
publication, has named Contact Networks' unique address book service to
"The Top 100 Web Sites," published in its April 26 issue. Contact Networks'
contact-management tool was categorized among small-business services
that are "especially useful and well designed and deliver on the promises
they make," based on an assessment of a beta version, available at www.contact.com.
The magazine's editors wrote: "Contact.com … offers a fascinating blend
of online and offline contact manager and address book capabilities. Since
all users will keep their personal data up to date on the Web, a quick
click of the synchronization button ensures that the offline version of
your address book, which lives on your PC, contains the most recent info
available."
In the same April 26 issue, Contributing Editor Greg Alwang gave Contact
Networks four out of five stars in a "First Looks" review of the beta.
Alwang was impressed by this "hybrid software application/service that
uses the Web to solve one of the chief problems with PIMs and contact
managers: Information quickly gets out of date as people switch jobs or
move. As your business and personal contacts update their personal information,
the changes are automatically synchronized with your local address book."
Contact Networks CEO Adam Hertz said, "We're gratified that PC Magazine's
experts found this early beta version of our personal information sharing
technology to be so useful. We look forward to the release of our Web-based
application and support for wireless WAP phones later this summer. These
new product enhancements will deliver on our vision of quality personal
information, accessible everywhere."
Available on the Contact Networks web site, the beta version of the always-updated,
always-accessible address-book is freely available for download. Launch
of the complete offerings (web version, internet-enabled wireless phone
version, voice activation) is scheduled for the summer of 2000.
About Contact Networks
Contact Networks (www.Contact.com), a Silicon Valley-based global enterprise,
focuses on contact management as the critical component of wireless and
Internet-enabled communication platforms and devices. Contact Networks
works with wireless infrastructure providers, carriers and portals to
establish the industry's most advanced platform for interpersonal wireless
services, and to leverage the powerful technology underlying the company's
unique and powerful address book services. At the center of these services
- delivered through a variety of access points, including WAP (wireless
application protocol), voice, desktop and Web, are rich, timely contact
information tools and integrated communication and commerce services providing
unique customer benefits and making interactions between people simpler
and more personal.
The company's staff includes a wireless and PC engineering team in Israel,
a business center in London, and a voice access and server services engineering
team in the United States. Led by president and CEO Adam Hertz (former
Excite@Home engineering vice president), the company's board of directors
also includes Mitch Kapor of Accel Partners (founder of Lotus Development
Corp.), Tom Herring of Polaris Venture Partners and Yoram Amiga of Sum
International. Contact Networks was listed among "The Top 100 Web Sites"
in the April 26, 2000, issue of PC Magazine.
For press inquiries contact:
Omer Malchin, VP, Marketing
Tel: (650) 610 3115
Kent Holland, Plesser
Associates
Tel: (212) 319-8383
Jason Chupick, Plesser
Associates
Tel: (212) 319-8383

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