To: Victor Lazlo who wrote (107605 ) 8/29/2000 9:16:33 AM From: H James Morris Respond to of 164684 Victor, what Vcnt does is pretty simple. The question is will Vcnt ever make a profit. I guess the recent analysts downgrades indicate they're worried. >About Vicinity Vicinity Corporation is a leading provider of Internet-based infrastructure marketing services for brand-name Global 2000 companies. The company's click-and-mortar solutions, available in 14 countries and in 10 languages, enable its more than 350 customers to direct consumers searching for a specific product or service to the nearest brick-and-mortar store that carries that product or service. Vicinity's customers include FedEx, Ford, GM, Hewlett-Packard, Hilton Hotels Corporation, Marriott, McDonald's, NEC, Pizza Hut, Starbucks, Starwood Hotels, Taco Bell, Toyota, Levi Strauss & Co. and UPS. Its suite of private-label and co-branded content and services - available via the Internet, cellular phones, WAP phones, wireless devices and landline telephones - includes Vicinity Business Finder(SM), Telephone Business Finder(SM), Wireless Business Finder(SM), BrandFinder(SM), SiteMaker(SM), MailMaker(SM), MapBlast!(R) Mapping Services, GeoSearch(R) and Business Directory. Publicly traded on Nasdaq under the symbol VCNT, Vicinity's investors include CMGI (NASDAQ: CMGI). The company's strategic alliances include Inktomi (NASDAQ: INKT), and Palm Computing (NASDAQ: PALM) and it is a member of the Phone.com (NASDAQ: PHCM) Alliance Program. Vicinity was established in 1995, is headquartered in Palo Alto, Calif., and has offices in New Hampshire, U.K., France, and Germany. Vicinity(R)is a registered service mark of Vicinity Corporation.