Monday November 22, 12:47 pm Eastern Time
Company Press Release
SOURCE: WorldGate Communications, Inc.
WorldGate Signs Broad Group of E-Commerce and
Internet Content Partners Including eShare,
DoubleClick and Gist.com
TREVOSE, Pa., Nov. 22 /PRNewswire/ -- WorldGate Communications, Inc. (Nasdaq: WGAT - news) today announced it has
enhanced the WorldGate Internet TV Over Cable(SM) content package with additional e-commerce partners and personalized
Internet services. Joining existing WorldGate partners are web businesses providing TV formatted games, chat services, instant
messaging, photo e-mail services, calendaring, employment search and shopping solutions.
In extending the consumer's television beyond entertainment, WorldGate is adding a host of key partners to bring easy-to-use
services via the remote control, including Telepix, eShare Technologies (Nasdaq: ESHR - news), egenda.net, SyNet
Communications, Epsylon Technologies, Bill's Games, KwikWeb.com, DoubleClick, Inc.,(Nasdaq: DCLK - news), Gist.com,
Headhunter.net (Nasdaq: HHNT - news) and EMAZING Email Network. WorldGate has also associated with the affiliate
programs of such well-known e-tailers as Amazon.com and Egghead.com.
WorldGate is committed to bringing the best of the Internet to cable TV subscribers worldwide. In doing so, WorldGate is adding
additional chat services designed specifically for the interactive television user with partners SyNet Communications and Epsylon
Technologies. WorldGate will also be introducing its own branded version of chat and instant messaging in conjunction with
eShare Technologies, a leading provider of chat and real-time instant messaging software and services.
WorldGate has benefited from having active subscribers to use as guidance for enhancing its product for future releases. Among
the many varied uses of WorldGate, Internet-based games have been very popular. WorldGate has partnered with Bill's Games,
SyNet Communications and Epsylon Technologies to bring a series of games that have been created specifically for the television.
As part of WorldGate's content package for home-based personal information management, WorldGate has partnered with
egenda.net to deliver an interactive individual, family and local community-based calendaring service.
In a move to create additional home uses for interactive television, WorldGate has partnered with Telepix to bring a solution for
processing photo film to digital storage on the Web, with direct access from a WorldGate(SM) enabled cable TV. The
Telepix/WorldGate service also provides a photo e-mail capability.
Related to the Telepix announcement is WorldGate's partnership with KwikWeb.com, a leading provider of personal and business
Web page hosting. WorldGate has partnered with KwikWeb.com to provide a personalized Web page builder and free Web home
pages. KwikWeb.com's page builder has an easy to use Web interface with a made for TV design.
As a related component to supporting many of these content partners, WorldGate announces its relationship with DoubleClick,
Inc., (Nasdaq: DCLK - news), the industry's leading Internet advertising solutions company. WorldGate will be using the DART
(Dynamic Advertising Reporting and Targeting) ad serving technology product. Gist.com will provide an Internet TV programming
guide, featuring rich editorial content and customized TV listings; Headhunter.net specialized online employment services for job
seekers, employers and recruiters; and EMAZING Tips, a part of EMAZING Email Network offering tips for consumers.
In addition to offering the various rich content provided by its partners through direct links within the WorldGate user interface the
Service also offers the opportunity to interactively link its e-commerce and other content partners to the WorldGate Service
customers through the patented Channel HyperLinking technology.
About WorldGate Communications, Inc.
Headquartered near Philadelphia, WorldGate Communications has the first commercially deployed service that enables cable
subscribers to access a full array of low-cost Internet services and e-mail through their television sets and the cable television
infrastructure rather than a personal computer and telephone. The WorldGate Service marries WorldGate's proprietary technology
with the television set platform and either the existing advanced analog or digital cable converter along with a remote control or
wireless keyboard to bring the Internet to cable subscribers. Using advanced analog converters, the Service operates at more than
2 times the speed of a standard 56 Kbps telephone modem. With digital converters, the Service can operate at 27 Mbps, over 2.5
times faster than a typical cable modem.
In addition, the Company's Channel HyperLinking technology, which allows viewers instant access from the program they are
watching to a related Web site or locally available information sources, has more than 70 network partners. For more information,
interested parties may go to www.wgate.com. WorldGate Communications' stock is traded on the Nasdaq under the symbol
WGAT. WorldGate, Internet TV Over Cable and Channel HyperLinking are service marks of WorldGate Communications, Inc.
This press release may contain forward-looking statements that are made pursuant to the safe-harbor provisions of the Private
Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Expressions of future goals and similar expressions including, without limitation,
expressions using the terminology ''may,'' ''will,'' ''believes,'' ''plans,'' ''expects,'' ''anticipates,'' ''predicts,'' ''forecasts,'' and
expressions which otherwise reflect something other than historical fact are intended to identify forward-looking statements.
These forward-looking statements involve a number of risks and uncertainties, including the timely development and market
acceptance of products and technologies and other factors described in the Company's filings with the Securities and Exchange
Commission. The actual results may differ materially from any forward-looking statements due to such risks and uncertainties.
The Company undertakes no obligation to revise or update any forward-looking statements in order to reflect events or
circumstances that may arise after the date of this release.
SOURCE: WorldGate Communications, Inc.
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