Digital Courier's WeatherLabs Division Showcased by Sun Microsystems On Java Web Site; Feature Article Discusses WeatherLabs' Java Technology, Business Model.SALT LAKE CITY--(BUSINESS WIRE)--July 13, 1998--Digital Courier Technologies Inc., (NASDAQ NASDAQ in full National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations U.S. market for over-the-counter securities. Established in 1971 by the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD), NASDAQ is an automated quotation system that reports on :DCTI DCTI Consonus Technologies (Cary, NC; stock symbol) DCTI Digital Courier Technologies Inc. DCTI Datacentre Technologies and Infrastructure (UK) ) (formerly DataMark Holding Inc.) Monday announced that Sun Microsystems Inc. (NASDAQ:SUNW SUNW Sun Microsystems, Inc (former stock symbol; now JAVA) SUNW Stanford University Network Workstation (Sun Microsystems, Inc) ) is this week showcasing Digital Courier's WeatherLabs division on the front page of Sun's highly popular and heavily trafficked Java Web site (http://java.sun.com). The feature article, "Hot and Very Cool: Java Technology Forecasts Weather," discusses WeatherLabs' use of Java technology to attain market share in the Internet weather industry and the wireless weather marketplace. "I'm elated that Sun has chosen WeatherLabs as a head of the WeatherLabs division. "Weathe, Netscape (NASDAQ:NSCP NSCP National Schistosomiasis Control Program NSCP National Space Communications Program NSCP Native (Mode) Service Control Point (Tandem) ), IBM (International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY, www.ibm.com) The world's largest computer company. IBM's product lines include the S/390 mainframes (zSeries), AS/400 midrange business systems (iSeries), RS/6000 workstations and servers (pSeries), Intel-based servers (xSeries) (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange :IBM) and Nokia (NYSE:NOKa) to extend our proprietary and complex matrix ng exclusive weather services contracts with other major Internet portals and Websites. "The Sun article calls attention to the great revenue opportunity Digital Courier is creating by using sophisticated technology to win market share from our competitors in the weather industry," stated Mitchell Edwards, chief financial officer of Digital Courier. "Moreover, much of the WeatherLabs technology is part of the core matrix of Java applications utilized throughout all of the interrelated in·ter·re·late tr. & intr.v. in·ter·re·lat·ed, in·ter·re·lat·ing, in·ter·re·lates To place in or come into mutual relationship. in business units of Digital Courier. The underlying technology of our Videos Now unit, which will be launched with America Online (NASDAQ:AOL (A division of Time Warner, Inc., New York, NY, www.aol.com) The world's largest online information service with access to the Internet, e-mail, chat rooms and a variety of databases and services. ) later this summer, is the same sophisticated software engine we use for WeatherLabs. "Sharing and leveraging the Java technology platform throughout all of Digital Courier has allowed us to rapidly develop the online content and commerce engines which are central to our business model," added Edwards. The feature article is accompanied by two sidebars: "The WeatherLabs Business Model" describes the role of WeatherLabs' proprietary Java technology in creating revenue streams, and "WeatherLabs' Big Picture" details the compelling online and wireless weather products that WeatherLabs licenses to Web sites and Web portals such as Excite Inc. (NASDAQ:XCIT) and CondeNet (a unit of magazine publisher behemoth Conde Nast Publications Inc.).
CONTACT: WeatherLabs Inc.
Brendan Lane Larson, 415/243-9669
Fax: 415/243-9679
blarson@weatherlabs.com
or
Digital Courier Technologies Inc.
Mitch Edwards, 888/825-8663
medwards@dcourier.com
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