Good evening to you all. Please find enclosed the latest Sideware press release, which was received early this evening.
SIDEWARE SYSTEMS INC. TO DEMONSTRATE ITS FREE MESSAGING SERVICE, HOT NOTIONS, AT SPRING INTERNET WORLD 98
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE - FEBRUARY 20, 1998
Vancouver, BC - Sideware Systems will introduce Hot Notions(, its free groupware messaging service, at the Spring Internet World 98 March 11-13, 1998. Hot Notions, a complimentary download, allows users to connect differently with others on the Internet: it allows users to share tips on special interest topics on Web site locations.
>From the Hot Notions Web site, users can explore the Web with others who share their interests through contextual chat, messaging and Web navigation. The service includes the Hot Notions Web site, which allows users to take a guided tour or link up with those who share similar interests. The Hot Notions client also allows groups of users to link their chat to specific Web pages.
"Hot Notions is both a marketing device and revenue generator for our company. By providing this free service we can quickly educate users' of the value of our Intranet products and with increasing use will start to realize advertising revenues," states Owen Jones, President Sideware Systems. "Our intention of demonstrating this system at Internet World 98 is to attract the attention of thousands of potential users."
More than 60,000 Internet professionals from all over the world will attend Spring Internet World '98 in Los Angeles. The conference offers more than 200 sessions and workshops focusing on the issues, applications and emerging technologies that can make working the Internet profitable.
Sideware Systems offers a family of products that employ the patented concurrent technology. Net Notions(, the company's flagship product, is a unique groupware messaging system that makes the sharing of ideas more personal. Tagalongs( is an easy-to use personal annotation product that lets users peel off an electronic note, write or record sound on it, and link it to the action being performed. Dr. Bean(, being written in JAVA, offers suppliers and customers the ability to communicate and navigate interactively via real-time messages associated with electronic business web pages.
Sideware Systems Inc., develops and markets software that exploits its patented concurrent technology. Sideware Systems Inc. is a publicly traded company on the Vancouver Stock Exchange trading under the symbol: SYD . Please visit our web site for further information at www.sideware.com
INVESTOR CONTACT: Manfred Kurschner at manfred@sideware.com, 604-986-6121 ext.232
MEDIA CONTACT: Stacy Imyak at 76756.3477@compuserve.com, 847-291-1616 ext.224
THE VANCOUVER STOCK EXCHANGE HAS NOT REVIEWED AND DOES NOT ACCEPT RESPONSIBILITY FOR THE ADEQUACY OR ACCURACY OF THIS RELEASE.
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DISCLOSURE STATEMENT
AGORA INTERNET RELATIONS CORP. receives a monthly monetary fee from Sideware Systems Inc. for the purposes of communicating with Internet shareholders - both current and prospective - to increase awareness of and interest in Sideware Systems Inc. AGORA INTERNET RELATIONS CORP activities are aimed purely at keeping their clients' shareholders and prospective shareholders informed about their company. These activities consist of providing investors with previously disclosed factual information concerning the company, comments from company principals, copies of material that has been filed with regulatory authorities, comments prepared by registered brokers or investment dealers and material published in newspapers, magazines or journals.
AGORA INTERNET RELATIONS CORP does not participate in the maintenance of an orderly market in their client's securities, nor is required, or receives an incentive for, the maintenance or achievement of a price or trading volume for their client's securities at a certain level, for a specified period of time or by a certain date. AGORA INTERNET RELATIONS CORP. may, at any time, own shares in the company. |
