BestCalls.com Announces the BestCalls Technology Index.

LOS GATOS, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 30, 1999--

BestCalls Technology Index Rates the Conference Call Popularity of America's Top Technology Firms

BestCalls.com, the Internet's investor conference call directory, today announced the BestCalls Technology Index(TM) (http://www.bestcalls.com/index), the world's first survey to rate the conference call popularity of publicly traded technology firms. According to the survey, the technology companies with the twenty most requested conference call schedules include: 1. America Online Inc. (NYSE: AOL), 2. Dell Computer Corporation (Nasdaq: DELL), 3. Microsoft Corporation (Nasdaq: MSFT), 4. Cisco Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq: CSCO), 5. Intel Corporation (Nasdaq: INTC), 6. Lucent Technologies Inc. (NYSE: LU), 7. Yahoo! Inc. (Nasdaq: YHOO), 8. Compaq Computer Corp. (NYSE: CPQ), 9. Oracle Corporation (Nasdaq: ORCL), 10. IBM (NYSE: IBM), 11. EMC Corporation (NYSE: EMC), 12. Sun Microsystems, Inc. (Nasdaq: SUNW), 13. 3Com Corporation (Nasdaq: COMS), 14. At Home Corporation (Nasdaq: (Nasdaq: ATHM), 15. Applied Materials (Nasdaq: AMAT), 16. Hewlett-Packard Company (NYSE: HWP), 17. Broadcom Corporation (Nasdaq: BRCM), 18. Motorola, Inc. (NYSE: MOT), 19. RealNetworks, Inc. (Nasdaq: RNWK), and 20. QUALCOMM, Inc. (Nasdaq: QCOM).

"We created the BestCalls Technology Index to illustrate the tremendous demand for conference call attendance among individual investors," said Mark Coker, founder and president of BestCalls.com. "The technology industry is at the forefront of a shareholder communications revolution. 80% of the BestCalls Technology Index companies open their earnings conference calls to individual investors."

"The progressive shareholder communications practices of the tech industry have helped the companies attract billions of dollars in capital from individual investors," continued Coker. "Companies outside the tech industry would do well to emulate the shareholder communications policies of the techs. Companies who proactively reach out and communicate with individual investors will do a better job of attracting and retaining them as shareholders."

BestCalls Technology Index Showcases 20 Most Popular Technology Conference Calls

The BestCalls Technology Index provides an important measure of which publicly traded technology companies are on the radar screens of individual investors. Approximately 93% of BestCalls.com member are individual investors.

The Index identifies the twenty most requested conference calls schedules for companies in the technology industry, and is based on a survey of over 30,000 BestCalls.com members. Popularity is determined by the number of BestCalls members who have placed a particular technology services company in their personal CallTracker. CallTracker is BestCalls.com's free service that allows members to receive automatic email notifications of the conference call schedules they specify.

The BestCalls Technology Index will become a permanent feature on the BestCalls.com web site, and will soon be joined by additional exclusive BestCalls Indexes which examine additional industry sectors. Other BestCalls Indexes recently announced include the BestCalls Energy Index, the BestCalls Conglomerates Index, and the BestCalls Healthcare Index. Each BestCalls Index is updated once every twenty four hours.

The release of today's BestCalls Technology Index follows the successful launch of the BestCalls 50 Index in March, 1999. The BestCalls 50 Index measures the overall top fifty most requested conference call schedules out of a field of over 9,100 companies, and has gained industry-wide recognition as the leading indicator of conference call popularity. Portions of the Index were reproduced this week in The Industry Standard, the Internet business newsweekly, located at http://www.thestandard.com/metrics/display/0,1283,912,00.html.

BestCalls.com is the Internet's TV Guide of Investor Conference Calls

BestCalls.com is the Internet's TV Guide of investor conference calls and events. The BestCalls.com directory provides investors a free, centralized resource for tracking the investor conference call and event schedules of hundreds of companies. In the last three months, BestCalls.com has listed the conference call schedules of over 400 companies.

Details

BestCalls.com membership and the exclusive CallTracker feature is free to everyone. To join BestCalls.com, register at http://www.bestcalls.com/join. Members are entitled to receive a free subscription to the BestCalls.com newsletter and are allowed to post conference call schedules via BestCalls.com's online data entry form. BestCalls.com researchers secure the approval of each company or their investor relations representatives prior to posting their conference call schedule.

About BestCalls.com

Founded in 1998, privately-held BestCalls is the Internet's first and largest online directory of investor conference calls. The site helps investors conveniently access the conference call schedules of thousands of publicly traded companies around the world, while providing public companies an opportunity to attract and retain long term shareholders. BestCalls can be reached on the Web at http://www.bestcalls.com, by phone at 408.358.9540, by fax at 408.358.1921, via email at [e-mail], and via postal mail at 15951 Los Gatos Blvd., Ste 16, Los Gatos, Calif., 95032.