AirMedia Provides Wireless Push Delivery for Microsoft Active Desktop.

LOS ANGELES--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 12, 1997--

Wireless Alerts Integrated Into Microsoft Internet

Explorer 4.0(R) to Bridge the Gap to Occasionally

Connected Desktop PCs; Targets SOHO, Home,

Telecommuter and Mobile Users

AirMedia, Inc. announced today that Microsoft Corp. will integrate its wireless information delivery technology into Microsoft Internet Explorer 4.0 to enable streaming, wireless, inbound alerts and content to be delivered to the Active Desktop from the AirMedia Live Internet Broadcast Network. In an announcement with Microsoft at Spring Internet World in Los Angeles, CA, AirMedia became the only wireless delivery provider for Microsoft Internet Explorer 4.0.

AirMedia's technology addresses a very specific problem facing millions of Internet users. While cyberspace is all about communications, most of the time Internet users are incommunicado. They connect to the Internet with a modem, but most of the time that modem is not connected. The vast majority of the millions of Internet users are outside of big corporations and don't have the luxury of a persistent link to the Internet. In fact, small office/home office workers, home PC users, telecommuters and mobile workers represent over 70% of all Internet users.

With the integration of these new tools into Active Desktop, a wireless, continually persistent link keeps PCs constantly in touch through a virtual wireless broadcast connection. AirMedia uses this connection to expedite time-sensitive, often perishable and highly granular information such as breaking news, minute-by-minute sports scores and current stock prices. As a result of AirMedia's technology integration, PCs across the country equipped with Microsoft Internet Explorer 4.0 and an inexpensive wireless receiver can constantly listen to wireless alerts and news delivered Hot Off the Internet(TM) 24 hours per day in a streaming wireless broadcast.

AirMedia and its growing list of more than 40 leading Web content partners specializing in real-time news, sports, financial and cyberspace alerts and notifications will offer expedited, real-time wireless delivery of content to the Active Desktop.

Current AirMedia content partners for wireless delivery include CNN Interactive, Reuters, SportsLine USA, Quote.Com, The Sports Network, LottoWorld Magazine, Freese-Notis Weather, MovieLink, The Weather Channel, Variety, Communications NOW, COMTEX Information Service, United Press International, US Newswire, iGolf, American Banker, AFP, AfricaNews, Business Wire, PR Newswire, Ziff-Davis Wire Highlights, Knight-Ridder/Tribune Business News, TravelGram, ITAR TASS News Agency, Futures World News, Xinhua News Agency, Yoyodyne Entertainment and more.

In addition, key online services and Internet Service Providers, including America Online, CompuServe, EarthLink, Sprynet and others, use AirMedia technology to push out instant information to unconnected users regarding events happening online, personal invitations to join chat sessions and notification of the arrival of new E-Mail.

As part of this agreement, a Software Development Kit (SDK) and ActiveX Control Development Kit (CDK) will be made widely available, incorporating wireless support for Dynamic HTML and Microsoft's Channel Definition Format (CDF). The SDK will enable Active Desktop content developers to wirelessly enable their channels to receive real-time updates of news, minute-by-minute sports scores and stock prices, late breaking headlines and other time-sensitive, perishable information from the wireless broadcast. Developers can also use the CDK and broadcast server APIs to instantly deliver changing Web Collection tokens, initiate channel updates remotely with nationally broadcast AirMedia Activators and to allow corporate users to broadcast wireless extensions from the company Intranet to telecommuters, mobile workers and even customers.

In addition, AirMedia will publish an easy-to-implement library of branded, content specific objects based in Dynamic HTML which tune to breaking real-time content broadcast wirelessly from the well-known Internet sources noted above.

This relationship enables the addition of valuable wireless technology to the suite of tools available to content providers and channel developers for Internet Explorer 4.0, said Brad Chase, Vice President of Marketing, Internet Client and Collaboration Division at Microsoft. These tools and AirMedia's wireless, always-available networks will enable a host of powerful new applications which are dependent on alert-oriented delivery for the home, small office, telecommuter and mobile markets.

Internet Explorer 4.0 represents a best-of-breed platform for the important new push information delivery paradigm, said John M. Payne, President of AirMedia. By integrating AirMedia wireless broadcast technologies with the powerful tools provided by Dynamic HTML and Internet Explorer 4.0's new Channel Definition Formats on the Active Desktop, Microsoft has bridged the gap to allow content providers to expedite breaking news and alerts from the Web in real time to the desktops of millions of Internet users who connect with a modem only occasionally throughout the day.

The Microsoft Windows NT platform is the foundation for the Active Server wireless broadcast technology used in AirMedia's Broadcast Operations Center in New York City, from which AirMedia delivers a wireless broadcast that currently reaches PCs across 90.5% of the population of the US and 98.5% of its SMSAs (Standard Metropolitan Statistical Areas).

The NewsCatcher wireless receiver from Global Village Communication (NASDAQ GVIL) was the first device available for the AirMedia Live Internet Broadcast Network. This sleek, black, pyramid-shaped wireless receiver is widely available for under $99.00 at major computer and consumer electronics retailers across the country. Other receivers for the AirMedia Live Internet Broadcast Network will soon be bundled with PCs available from major manufacturers.

AirMedia's wireless Internet solutions provide a unique method of allowing business users access -- in real time -- to mission-critical information without the need to actively connect to the Internet said Annie Bacon, Compaq's Director of Handheld Products. This product will bring true mobility to Internet information users.

AirMedia Live was awarded the prestigious Editors' Choice by PC Magazine in its February 18 issue which rated more than a dozen providers of push information delivery technology. It was chosen as a finalist by the Software Publishers Association for Best New Product of the Year and was a winner of the Innovations '97 Award at this year's Consumer Electronics Show. It also won New Media Magazine's 1996 Gold Medal Invision Award for technical innovation and creative excellence in interactive multimedia. AirMedia Live was also honored as a Premiere Product at InfoWorld's highly respected Demo '96 conference.

AirMedia, Inc. is the operator of the AirMedia Live Internet Broadcast Network and is a leading provider of Internet software and services. The privately held company develops and markets products and broadcast services that merge computing and wireless communications technologies. It was recently named one of the 100 most important wireless companies by Mobile Letter, the influential industry publication. More information is available at http://www.airmedia.com .

The company is also the leading provider of software solutions for paging, broadband and narrowband personal communications systems (PCS) and digital cellular networks through its Notify! Products Group. Its products are sold directly, in the computer and office products retail channels and through OEM relationships with companies such as Intel, Motorola, Glenayre Technologies, Apple Computer, Hewlett-Packard, Global Village Communication, VoiceStream/Western Wireless, PCS PrimeCo, Bell South, Symantec, GTE, Bell Atlantic/NYNEX, Pacific Bell and Sprint. More information is available at http://www.exmachina.com .

If you are interested in viewing additional information on AirMedia, please visit the AirMedia Web site at http://www.airmedia.com, or call 1-800-AIR-MEDIA (1-800-247-6334).

Microsoft, ActiveX and Windows NT are either registered trademarks or trademarks of Microsoft Corp. in the United States and/or other countries. AirMedia, AirMedia Live, Notify! and Ex Machina are trademarks or registered trademarks of AirMedia, Inc. AirMedia, Inc. was formerly known as Ex Machina, Inc. NewsCatcher is a trademark of Global Village Communication. All other trademarks and brand names are properties of their respective owners.

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