Concierge to Release PCA Software April 7.

Business Editors & Multimedia Writers

LOS ANGELES--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 6, 2000

Concierge Inc., which recently announced plans to merge with StarFest Inc. (OTCBB:SFST), has announced a firm release date of April 7, 2000, for the company's PCA (Personal Communications Attendant) software.

The software may be ordered directly through Concierge's Web site at www.pcahome.com upon release. The Web site is currently being redesigned to accommodate direct sales, in addition to other changes. The new release will allow telephone access to Microsoft Outlook e-mail. Additional support is planned for Netscape and Eudora e-mail access with this unique software package.

The PCA software requires no special hardware other than a Windows 95/98 PC platform and a voice/fax/data modem. Users can easily configure the software to recognize their own unique voice commands and password.

Following installation, access to e-mail can be made from any touch-tone phone, from any location. The PCA is easily configured by the user and will respond only to the individual user's voice once "trained" in a brief session.

E-mail will be totally secure because the PCA verifies the user's identity through a user-selected voice password and PIN in addition to recognizing the individual user's voice.

Several highly useful features have been added to the original product design, slightly extending the development cycle. The new version provides the flexibility to access messages by specific sender and exclude unwanted e-mail.

"We have made the software extremely easy to use, with verbal notations of the number of e-mail messages for review, the sender, date and time and subject matter," stated Allen Kahn, president of Concierge Inc. "PCA will also inform the user when there are attachments to an e-mail and what application created them.

"The user will also have the option of reading or bypassing an entire message simply by answering 'yes' or 'no' to a voice prompt from the PCA and going on to the next message," stated Kahn.

The PCA's voice recognition and text-to-speech software will shorten the user's learning cycle by maintaining the familiar Microsoft Outlook naming conventions. The PCA's interaction with the user also provides an acknowledgement by the system of commands completed.

This lets the user know when to issue another command to ensure effective interaction with PCA. Another important feature allows the user to use the telephone keypad as backup input for voice commands in situations where excessive background noise makes it difficult for the PCA to hear the user's spoken commands.

A significant feature of the product is AutoPage, which will alert the user at any telephone or pager upon receipt of e-mail messages from a user-designated list of correspondents, thus assuring that the user is not interrupted for relatively trivial e-mail. AutoPage can be turned on or off from the computer keyboard or by voice command over the phone.

During the recent Cellular Telecommunications trade show in New Orleans last week, it was projected that more than 1 billion mobile phones will be in use worldwide by the year 2003. "The cellular explosion expands our potential market far beyond our original expectations," stated Kahn.

"We see ourselves in the middle of two hot markets, the Internet and cellular communications. Unified Messaging will definitely expand the hand-held PDA market, which requires a moderately expensive portable device. The PCA will soon offer full unified messaging capabilities in a low-priced software package and the potential market is vast.

"PCA's only requirement is a touch-tone phone and the PC/modem combination mentioned earlier." Availability dates for the addition of fax and voice-mail support for the PCA are expected to be announced shortly.

Concierge Inc. was founded by Kahn to design, market and support a new class of unified messaging 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 user's voice commands. Concierge plans continuing enhancements to the core product (PCA), including foreign language versions, and has additional unique products under development.

Except for the historical information contained herein, the matters set forth in this news release are forward-looking statements within the meaning of the "safe harbor" provisions of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act 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. The company disclaims any intent or obligation to update these forward-looking statements.