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'INTERVU Presents' Lives up to Its Expectation as Being a Powerful Tool For Corporate Collaboration Via Office 2000 and the Internet.


National Cable Television Association, Information Management System, Inc.,

SeminarSource.com, and VisualCommerce to Utilize INTERVU Presents

SAN DIEGO San Diego (săn dēā`gō), city (1990 pop. 1,110,549), seat of San Diego co., S Calif., on San Diego Bay; inc. 1850. San Diego includes the unincorporated communities of La Jolla and Spring Valley. Coronado is across the bay. , June 7 /PRNewswire/ -- With today's launch of Microsoft Office 2000 comes the engine to thrust a PowerPoint presentation with live audio or video over the Internet. INTERVU Inc. (Nasdaq: ITVU), the leading service provider for Internet audio and video delivery solutions, supports Microsoft PowerPoint 2000 with an embedded Internet broadcast feature, called "INTERVU Presents."

INTERVU Presents is a broadcasting service that allows users to distribute live and on-demand audio and video presentations with synchronized Microsoft PowerPoint slides to select audiences -- from one to thousands of simultaneous viewers -- instantly via the Internet over INTERVU's unique distributed and automated network. This broadcasting service allows Microsoft Office 2000 users to schedule and broadcast presentations twenty-four hours a day with its fully automated registration process.

VisualCommerce(TM), a Seattle-based electronic commerce tool developer, will utilize INTERVU Presents to deliver a live Internet broadcast of a seminar entitled 'Taking the Complexity Out of eCommerce' that will target eCommerce systems integrators. This event will detail how VisualCommerce rapidly develops a robust Microsoft SQL Server A relational DBMS from Microsoft that is a major component of the Windows Server System. It is Microsoft's high-end client/server database and is closely integrated with Microsoft Visual Studio and the Microsoft Office System.  database, creates ASP storefronts using Commerce Server, and generates a highly intuitive store manager application. The seminar will take place at www.visualcommerce.com in mid-July. The exact date of the event will soon be published on the VisualCommerce Web site.

"After successfully beta testing INTERVU Presents, we believe it is going to revolutionize how corporations collaborate. In our case it is going to be an effective marketing tool," said Dan Stull, President & CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board.  of VisualCommerce. "By broadcasting our seminar over the Internet with INTERVU Presents, we are going to save an enormous amount of time and expense that it would normally cost to deliver a presentation in-person."

The National Cable Television Association (NCTA NCTA National Cable & Telecommunications Association (fka National Cable Television Association)
NCTA National Cable Television Association (now the National Cable & Telecommunications Association) 
) has also decided to use INTERVU Presents for the upcoming Cable '99 convention, the world's largest convention for the cable television industry, taking place in Chicago from June 13-16. Through INTERVU Presents, INTERVU will Webcast six panel sessions from the conference to the Cable '99 Web site (www.cable99.com), which will be aired as fifteen-minute on-demand productions utilizing the INTERVU Presents broadcasting service. By taking advantage of INTERVU Presents, the NCTA can broaden its convention reach to interested parties worldwide.

Information Management System (IMS (1) See IP Multimedia Subsystem.

(2) (Information Management System) An early IBM hierarchical DBMS for IBM mainframes. IMS was widely implemented throughout the 1970s under MVS and continues to be used under z/OS.
), Inc. (www.imsinc.com), a global information technology training organization, is developing an online classroom training environment that will utilize the INTERVU Presents solution to support the product and service training needs of information technology professionals in order to enhance their skill sets. IMS has selected INTERVU Presents as its online training solution to reduce travel time and expenses and to provide its customers with the opportunity to receive training anytime, anywhere, anyplace.

SeminarSource.com, a leading provider of e-commerce solutions for the convention and meeting industry, is also planning to utilize INTERVU Presents for the company's sales training efforts. SeminarSource.com's sales force deals primarily with face-to-face sales so they must be well prepared to anticipate client's questions and handle responses with ease. INTERVU Presents offers a solution with the visual impact of face-to-face training, but the convenience of ubiquitous access. SeminarSource.com will also utilize INTERVU Presents to launch new products and services to the convention and meeting industry.

"INTERVU's support for PowerPoint 2000 means that users will have the opportunity to experience automated, high-quality Internet audio- and video-enhanced presentations," said John Duncan, product manager, Microsoft Office. "INTERVU Presents supports PowerPoint 2000 and provides a cost-effective solution for business meetings, training sessions, corporate communications, tradeshow sessions and distance learning by allowing businesses and educational institutions to avoid travel costs and increase employee productivity."

A demonstration of INTERVU Presents can be viewed at the following Web site: www.intervu.net/presents/demo/. To view this demonstration, users will need Microsoft's Internet Explorer Web browser The program that serves as your front end to the Web on the Internet. In order to view a site, you type its address (URL) into the browser's Location field; for example, www.computerlanguage.com, and the home page of that site is downloaded to you.  and the Microsoft Windows Media Player downloaded.

About INTERVU Inc.

INTERVU provides Web site owners and content publishers with services for the delivery or "streaming" of live and on-demand video and audio content over the Internet. INTERVU's services automate the publishing, distribution and programming of video and audio content. INTERVU uses a scalable, patent-pending distribution network comprised of servers strategically located in major Internet hosting centers. INTERVU's customers use its video and audio distribution services to transmit entertainment, sports, news, and business to business, advertising and distance learning content. INTERVU's current customers include CNN CNN
 or Cable News Network

Subsidiary company of Turner Broadcasting Systems. It was created by Ted Turner in 1980 to present 24-hour live news broadcasts, using satellites to transmit reports from news bureaus around the world.
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 in full National Broadcasting Co.

Major U.S. commercial broadcasting company. It was formed in 1926 by RCA Corp., General Electric Co. (GE), and Westinghouse and was the first U.S. company to operate a broadcast network.
, Onradio.com, RadioWave.com, Saatchi & Saatchi, and Turner Broadcasting. Additional information can be found at www.intervu.net.

Except for the historical information contained herein, this news release contains forward-looking statements that are subject to risks and uncertainties that might cause actual results to differ from those foreseen, including the market acceptance for INTERVU's specialized services, technological change and intense competition, as well as the other risks detailed from time to time in INTERVU's SEC reports, including the report on Form 10-K filed on March 30, 1999.
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