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Sunday February 7, 11:00 pm Eastern Time Company Press Release SOURCE: InfoNow CorporationInfoNow Extends its Web-based Inquiry Management Services to Support the Palm VII Connected Organizer, 3Com's Recently Announced Wireless Handheld Technology Joint Effort with Visa Delivers Leading-Edge Functionality and Capabilities DENVER, Feb. 7 /PRNewswire/ -- InfoNow Corporation (OTC Bulletin Board: INOW - news) today announced the release of automated prospect and inquiry management services accessed and delivered via the Palm VII(TM) connected organizer, 3Com's recently announced wireless handheld technology. InfoNow's clients will now be able to automatically respond and manage sales and customer service inquiries that originate from the Palm VII or similar wireless Internet-access devices. The development effort, conducted in partnership with Visa, will enable user's of the Palm VII wireless organizer to access the full range of Visa's award winning Internet ATM locator services, currently provided by InfoNow on an outsourced basis over the Internet. Visa's ATM Locator offers an easy way to pinpoint the location of any of Visa's 450,000 ATMs in 120 countries worldwide. The Visa ATM Locator Service, available on the Internet in English, Spanish, and Portuguese, and voted as one of Yahoo's 25 Most Incredibly Useful Internet services, now offers this state of the art technology to traveling cardholders. The Palm VII technology, announced at the recent Palm Computing® Platform Worldwide Developer Conference, will provide fast, secure and easy out-of-the-box access to personal, business and Internet information. The product will enable users to quickly and easily obtain important information from various Web sites remotely via a wireless connection to the Internet. ''We are continually searching for ways to extend and enhance the services we provide to our Members and their cardholders,'' said Kathleen Tobin, Visa's Vice President of International ATM Programs. ''InfoNow's ability to extend its unique technology and services across the enterprise, to include new, wireless platforms like the Palm VII, gives us an advantage in meeting this objective.'' ''Our relationship with 3Com and Visa , and our support of the Palm VII wireless organizer reflects our commitment to ensuring enterprise-wide access and delivery of our web-based prospect and inquiry management services,'' added Michael Johnson, CEO of InfoNow. ''Hand-held wireless devices will increasingly be an important means for consumers or commercial prospects to contact our clients. We are therefore dedicated to leading the delivery of web-based inquiry management services into the wireless arena.''InfoNow helps leading international companies Turn Prospects Into Sales(TM) through a modular suite of web-based, one-to-one marketing technologies. InfoNow outsources these services via the public Internet and private intranets to clients in ten countries, including eight of the ten largest global computer and networking firms and six of the eight largest banks in North America, as well as other industry leaders like Allstate, American Airlines, FedEx, Maytag, Shell, Transamerica, United Healthcare, and Visa. For more information, please visit infonow.com . About Visa As the World's Best Way to Pay, Visa is the leading payment brand and the largest consumer payment system worldwide with more volume than all other major payment cards combined. Visa plays a pivotal role in advancing new payment products and technologies to benefit its 21,000 member financial institutions and their cardholders. Visa has more than 70 smart card programs in 33 countries and on the Internet, with 23 million Visa chip cards, including over 8 million Visa Cash cards. Visa is pioneering SET Secure Electronic Transaction(TM) programs to enable and advance Internet commerce. There are more than 630 million Visa-branded cards, which generate over US$1.3 trillion in annual volume. Visa is accepted at more than 15 million worldwide locations, including at over 450,000 ATMs in the Visa Global ATM Network. Visa's Internet address is www.visa.com. InfoNow is a registered trademark of InfoNow Corporation. Visa is a registered trademark of Visa International. 3Com and Palm Computing are registered trademarks, and Palm and Palm VII are trademarks of Palm Computing, Inc. or 3Com Corporation. SOURCE: InfoNow Corporation --------------------------------------------------------------------------------