Cool Apps Contest Winners Announced; Leading Internet Telephony Applications Awarded at Spring '99 VON.

MELVILLE, N.Y.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 20, 1999--

The winners of the 1999 Cool Apps Contest were announced at the opening address of pulver.com's Spring '99 Voice on the Net (VON) conference in Las Vegas on April 14th.

Sponsored by pulver.com, Dialogic (NASDAQ:DLGC), and ITXC, the Cool Apps contest was kicked off to search out and reward today's most powerful Internet telephony applications for public network, customer premise, and end-user implementations.

Jeff Pulver, president/CEO of pulver.com commented: "With 40+ entries received for the contest it is clear to me that 1999 will be known as the "Year of the Application." Special thanks goes to all of the conference judges, contest sponsors Dialogic and ITXC and the companies which sent in their entries. We are looking forward to seeing the contest winners at Fall '99 Voice on the Net (http://pulver.com/von99/fall99) in Atlanta, GA, September 27-30, 1999."

The panel of judges included Chris Bajorek of CT Labs, Louis Trager from Interactive Week, Joe Rinde of MCI Worldcom, Ross Baldari of Morgan Stanley Dean Witter, and Laurie Gooding of Rockwell International. Winning applications in each category were as follows:

Public Network Enhanced Services Applications

Winner: Emeeting (WTS) - This application lets users conference via their phone OR the Internet via NetMeeting or any H.323-based IP phone. Features include automatic notification via email and up to 120 ports of PSTN and VoIP conferencing.

Runner up: Cosmocall (CosmoCom) - A virtual call center which brings completely IP-based, live customer service to the Internet. It allows agents to queue and answer real-time inquiries such as Internet chat and VoIP in real-time while simultaneously handling voice mail, fax and email.

Customer Premise Applications

Winner: MultiMedia Communications eXchange Server (Lucent Technologies - (NYSE:LU) - The MMCX dynamically integrates voice, data and video across networks, enabling geographically dispersed teams to conduct virtual, "face to face" meetings, adding media and subject matter experts as required.

Runner Up: LiveContact (ServiceSoft Technologies) - One click on an organization's Web site allows customers to speak and send information to a customer service representative. A dialog box pops up to inform the customer service representative that a caller is in the queue and the representative receives any pre-qualification information.

Runner Up: PNX ACD (PakNetX) - This software-only Internet ACD allows companies to process standard audio, Internet audio, video, data and e-mail within their legacy customer support system. Agents can place Internet calls on hold, transfer calls to another agent, consult with a supervisor, or conference in a third party.

End-User Implementations

Winner: ConnectSolutions PCTI (Andrea Electronics - (AMEX:AND)) - With the Personal Computer Telephone interface, users can alternately or simultaneously conduct telephone conversations and use speech recognition to enter data or dictate into the PC, without having to pause or toggle between applications.

Runner Up: Roger Wilco (Resounding Technology) - A stand-alone application that allows cybergamers to talk to each other while playing multiplayer online games such as Quake II, DIABLO, and StarCraft. This unobtrusive technology lets players talk to each other instead of typing messages.