Concierge Announces Order Entry Procedures, Product Enhancements; Begins Limited Shipment On Schedule.Business Editors LOS ANGELES--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 10, 2000 Concierge Inc. today announced that it will begin accepting orders for its Personal Communications Attendant (PCA (tool, programming) PCA - A dynamic analyser from DEC giving information on run-time performance and code use. ) product on April 11. Concierge, which is in the process of merging with StarFest Inc. (OTCBB OTCBB See OTC Bulletin Board (OTCBB). :SFST SFST Standardized Field Sobriety Test SFST Spent Fuel Storage Tank ), has established a toll-free line at 888/PCA-4818, which will be staffed to enter credit card orders for the company's PCA Audio E-Mail product. The company anticipates that an electronic order point for credit card purchases will be active on its Web site (www.pcahome.com) by the end of this week. The Audio E-Mail version of the PCA reads users' e-mail to them over any telephone connection in response to voice commands and bears an introductory price of $39.95 plus shipping and handling. Concierge has begun limited shipments of the initial product release and projects volume production and customer shipments to commence later in April. The company also announced that the version to be shipped in late April will include audio supplements to the "help" and "tutorial An instructional book or program that takes the user through a prescribed sequence of steps in order to learn a product. Contrast with documentation, which, although instructional, tends to group features and functions by category. See tutorials in this publication. " sections to facilitate use by visually or manually handicapped individuals. The product's basic design already makes it feasible for handicapped users to employ it as a means of accessing e-mail that would not otherwise be possible, but a company spokesman pointed out that the PCA is not at this point considered to be a product fully usable by the handicapped without assistance, especially during the installation procedure. He added that Concierge has plans to continue efforts to make not only the PCA, but other Concierge products and additional Internet content accessible to the visually and manually handicapped through the application of advanced voice recognition and response technology. Concierge was founded by Allen E. Kahn to design, market and support a new class of unified messaging Having access to e-mail, voice mail and faxes via a common computer application or by telephone. For example, unified messaging may send faxes and digitized voice mail to a mail server that turns them into e-mail attachments. products. These products integrate voice technology and pioneering software as a solution to the remote access needs of Internet e-mail, fax and voice mail users. The company is preparing to introduce a software package (the Personal Communications Attendant, or PCA) that will enable Internet e-mail users to have e-mail received on their personal computers, read to them over any telephone as instructed by the users' voice commands. Concierge plans continuing enhancements to the core product (PCA), including foreign language versions, and has additional unique products under development. Concierge's Web site is www.pcahome.com. Except for the historical information contained herein, the matters set forth in this news release are forward-looking statements forward-looking statement A projected financial statement based on management expectations. A forward-looking statement involves risks with regard to the accuracy of assumptions underlying the projections. within the meaning of the "safe harbor Safe Harbor 1. A legal provision to reduce or eliminate liability as long as good faith is demonstrated. 2. A form of shark repellent implemented by a target company acquiring a business that is so poorly regulated that the target itself is less attractive. " provisions of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act The Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 (PSLRA) implemented several significant substantive changes affecting certain cases brought under the federal securities laws, including changes related to pleading, discovery, liability, class representation and awards fees and of 1995. These forward-looking statements are subject to risks and uncertainties that may cause actual results to differ materially. These forward-looking statements speak only as of the date hereof here·of adv. Of this. hereof Adverb Formal or law of or concerning this Adv. 1. hereof - of or concerning this; "the twigs hereof are physic" . The company disclaims any intent or obligation to update these forward-looking statements. |
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