EMERGING COMPANY REPORT TV PROGRAM GOES 'ON-LOCATION' AT CHICAGO DISCOVERY EXPO                       INVESTMENT CONFERENCE 
                         CHICAGO, Aug 20, 1999 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- Emerging Company                        Report, the nationally syndicated television program which profiles                        emerging-growth companies (http://www.emergingcompany.com), produces                        their program "On-Location" this week from the Chicago Discovery Expo                        Investment Conference and features an interview with EConnect (OTC                        Bulletin Board: ECNC). 
                        E-Connect CEO Tom Hughes explained his company's wide range of customer                        service programs and patent pending technology. Products ranging from                        EzyDepot(TM), a transaction automation system, to EzyShop(TM), which                        allows people in waiting rooms or public areas to shop over the                        Internet are targeted to the consumer market. EzyPay(TM), which is                        targeted to financial institutions, helps eliminate some of the costs                        associated with the more than 70 billion consumer checks that are                        written each year. The company has also entered the Internet gaming                        industry with 777wins.com and eSportsbet.com. 
                        Previously featured companies whose progress is updated on Emerging                        Company Report this week include; TTR Technologies, Inc. (OTC Bulletin                        Board: TTRE) Vice-President Robert Friedman demonstrated his company's                        Disc-Guard(TM) technology, which prevents software CD piracy. 
                        Emedsoft.com (OTC Bulletin Board: MDTK) Director of Investor Relations                        Michael Manahan described his company's Internet-based health care                        information management system. The company projects current fiscal year                        revenues in excess of $40 million out of an overall market estimated at                        $30 billion. 
                        ElGrande.com (OTC Bulletin Board: EGND) Chairman and CEO James R. West                        announced his company has developed an Internet search system called a                        "Shop Engine," which allows consumers who may be looking for particular                        items to purchase, a faster method in which to get what they want. 
                        Itronics, Inc. (OTC Bulletin Board: ITRO) CEO Dr. John Whitney                        discusses his company's business of making silver bars and fertilizers                        from photochemical waste fluid. 
                        Workfire.com (OTC Bulletin Board: WKFR) President Tom Taylor unveiled                        his company's Genetic Caching technology, which helps the Internet                        workfaster. 
                        Also: ProCyte Corporation (OTC Bulletin Board: PRCY), ISM Holding                        Corporation (OTC Bulletin Board: ISMH), M & A West, Inc. (OTC Bulletin                        Board: MAWI), Micro-Laboratories, Inc. (OTC Bulletin Board: MLAR),                        Consolidated Data, Inc. (OTC Bulletin Board: CSDD), Itronics, Inc. (OTC                        Bulletin Board: ITRO), Creative Hosts Services Intl., Inc. (Nasdaq:                        CHST), Twistee Treat Corporation (OTC Bulletin Board: TWTE) and                        Saf-T-Hammer Corporation (OTC Bulletin Board: SAFH). 
                        Viewers of Emerging Company Report can receive free information in the                        mail about featured companies by calling a toll-free phone number on                        theirTV screen. The television program, which debuted in the Fall of                        1996 isseen Friday evenings at 11:00 ET, 8:00 PT, Saturdays at 2:00 PM                        ET, 11:00 AM PTand Sunday mornings at 11:30 ET, 8:30 PT. The program is                        available to 24million cable TV homes in more than 150 cities                        nationwide. 
                        The program can also be viewed "On-Demand" at the Emerging Company                        Report web site, emergingcompany.com. 
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