Campus Pipeline Taps HearMe Technology for Higher Education; POP.X Technology Platform Brings Real-Time Interactivity to the Classroom.

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec. 8, 1999--

HearMe (Nasdaq:HEAR), and Campus Pipeline, Inc. today announced that Campus Pipeline has licensed HearMe(TM) POP.X(TM) technology to bring real-time online collaboration tools to college students.

Campus Pipeline selected HearMe POP.X to bring chat and multi-user whiteboards to the more than 500 campuses that have licensed the Campus Pipeline(TM) platform, making it easy for students and faculty to hold secure online office hours and study groups.

HearMe POP.X, a complete system for building, hosting and deploying large-scale multi-user Web applications, is part of HearMe's comprehensive line of products for building media-rich real-time experiences, including applications that feature live voice.

Unlike a destination Web site, Campus Pipeline is an official campus intranet that connects students with their campus community, academic resources and administrative services. By integrating with existing student information systems, Campus Pipeline allows students to save time and frustration by giving them access to their entire campus from anywhere, anytime.

Students can use the system to enroll, register for classes, view grades, request transcripts and loan status, obtain reading lists, buy books, access email and take advantage of exclusive e-commerce offerings.

"The Campus Pipeline platform is highly distributed, which made it difficult for us to find a technology that delivered the quality of service that higher education needs," said William Borghetti, president and CTO of Campus Pipeline. "We needed a product that could scale to accommodate people within and across many college campuses, be very reliable and provide us with a rapid development environment.

"We chose POP.X because it meets these requirements, allows us to administer and configure our applications easily, and deliver a dynamic and interactive teaching and learning experience."

"Campus Pipeline has already raised the bar for higher education on the Web by offering customization for each university and personalized content for each individual user," explained Rob Csongor, executive vice president and general manager for HearMe.

"With HearMe POP.X, Campus Pipeline can further enhance their offerings with real-time collaboration tools like chat and shared white boards with minimal time and investment. Using POP.X's flexible development system they can add new functionality quickly and easily and continue to lead the way in providing customized, interactive resources for higher education."

Availability

The Campus Pipeline platform is available today. The chat function will be included in the next release, which is scheduled for this month. Shared white boards are planned for a future release.

About HearMe POP.X

HearMe POP.X is a leading platform for providing real-time, interactive experiences on the Internet where large groups of people communicate and interact. Companies looking to add multi-user applications to their Web sites can use POP.X to build, deploy, scale and manage interactive applications using Java, C++ and other development environments.

POP.X includes ready-to-use and customizable applications to add community and real-time communication applications to any Web site quickly and easily.

Examples of highly-interactive Internet applications that can be developed and deployed using POP.X include: voice chat, text chat, instant messaging and paging, polls and live auditoriums, community help desks, interactive talk shows, and multiplayer games. The product is available now and is priced on a peak simultaneous user (PSU) basis.

About Campus Pipeline

Salt Lake City-based Campus Pipeline, Inc. links traditional higher education systems with the limitless capabilities of the Internet to create a customized campus intranet.

The company steps beyond the destination Web site to build a personalized pipeline that integrates students, faculty, staff and administrators with their campus community, academic resources and administrative services -- all online.

By opening 24x7 access to back office systems and campus resources while allowing institutions to retain control of their private networks, Campus Pipeline makes campus processes more manageable and secure and reduces operating costs for institutions of every kind and size.

Campus Pipeline works with leading companies including Amazon.com (Nasdaq:AMZN), Dell (Nasdaq:DELL), SCT (Nasdaq:SCTC) and Sun Microsystems (Nasdaq:SUNW). For more information, visit www.campuspipeline.com or call 888/682-PIPE (7473).

About HearMe

HearMe is dedicated to reshaping today's Internet applications into real-time interactive experiences through which large groups of people can interact and communicate using text, voice and video. The company develops, operates and licenses technology that enables real-time Internet communication and communities where people can gather to share affinities, interests, or ideas.

Communication tools such as text chat applications and instant messengers are already incorporating HearMe's technology to enable real-time voice interaction among multiple people.

Internet companies will benefit from HearMe's ability to support a variety of emerging activities including live voice chat for online karaoke and music recitals, distance learning, online training and multi-user entertainment. HearMe technology is also compatible with broadband video and other streaming media applications.

The company operates its own real-time consumer Internet communities, HearMe.com(TM) and Mplayer.com(TM). Through HearMe Technology Products, the company provides software products and services for leading third-party site operators building their own branded real-time communities.

Companies working with HearMe technology and services include Yahoo!, Macromedia, StarMedia Network, GTECH Corporation, LG InterNet and CSK Sega. Founded in early 1995, Mpath Interactive, Inc. dba HearMe is located in Mountain View. The company can be found on the Internet at www.hearme.com or reached at 650/429-3900.

Except for the historical information contained herein, the matters discussed in this news release are forward-looking statements that involve risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from those in such forward-looking statements. Potential risks and uncertainties include, without limitation, HearMe's dependence on its ability to significantly increase its membership base, user minutes, advertising revenue and revenue from HearMe Technology Products customers; to maintain and develop strategic relationships with media, Internet and technology companies; and to compete effectively. These and other risk factors are described in detail in HearMe's Registration Statement on Form S-1, the company's report on Form 10-Q for the periods ended March 31, 1999, June 30, 1999, and September 30, 1999 and in its other filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

Note to Editor: HearMe, POP.X, HearMe.com, and Mplayer.com are trademarks of Mpath Interactive, Inc, dba HearMe. Campus Pipeline and the Campus Pipeline logo are trademarks of Campus Pipeline, Inc. All other product or service names mentioned herein are trademarks of their respective owners.