Digital Courier's WeatherLabs Selected by Preview Travel for Online Weather Content.SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--July 23, 1998--WeatherLabs Inc., a division of Digital Courier A monospaced typeface originating from the typewriter that is commonly used for letters. It is still considered by many to be the "appropriate" typeface for business correspondence. Technologies, Inc. (Nasdaq: DCTI DCTI Consonus Technologies (Cary, NC; stock symbol) DCTI Digital Courier Technologies Inc. DCTI Datacentre Technologies and Infrastructure (UK) ; formerly DataMark Holdings, Inc.) announced today that Preview Travel, Inc. (Nasdaq: PTVL) will license WeatherLabs online weather content. Preview Travel will integrate WeatherLabs weather forecasts and information into its popular online travel service located at www.previewtravel.com. Preview Travel is one of the largest online travel services with more than four million registered subscribers. Preview Travel provides travel services to leading Web portals See portal. and online services including America Online See AOL. , Excite, Lycos and CNET's Snap. WeatherLabs will provide Preview Travel with detailed weather forecasts, historical weather charts and current conditions for thousands of locations worldwide. "We're very pleased to bring our world-class online weather content to Preview Travel and their growing online user base," said Brendan Lane Larson, Senior Vice President of Digital Courier and head of WeatherLabs. "WeatherLabs' Java-created content products are perfectly suited for the small business and leisure traveler, as we provide forecasts for any latitude latitude, angular distance of any point on the surface of the earth north or south of the equator. The equator is latitude 0°, and the North Pole and South Pole are latitudes 90°N and 90°S, respectively. , longitude longitude (lŏn`jĭt  d'), angular distance on the earth's surface measured along any latitude line such as the equator east or west of the prime meridian. coordinate on the planet
-- which amounts to weather coverage of several thousand cities around
the world. Preview Travel's use of WeatherLabs' content is a
perfect example of how WeatherLabs' customers can easily provide
expert weather information on their own Web sites," explained
Larson."After a thorough review of weather content providers, Preview Travel chose WeatherLabs for their useful and accurate weather information," said Barrie Seidenberg, Preview Travel's Senior Vice President of Online Services. "We believe WeatherLabs' quality product and entrepreneurial en·tre·pre·neur n. A person who organizes, operates, and assumes the risk for a business venture. [French, from Old French, from entreprendre, to undertake; see enterprise. spirit distinguished them from the competition." "In addition to licensing revenue, WeatherLabs also stands to gain a significant amount of exposure and visibility in the process of serving Preview Travel," stated Mike Higgins Michael S. Higgins (born February 17, 1967 in Grand Island, Nebraska) is an American professional basketball player. A 6'9" power forward from the University of Northern Colorado, Higgins played two seasons (1989-1991) in the National Basketball Association as a member of , Digital Courier's Vice President of Sales. "This exposure is vital to WeatherLabs as it continues to build its brand name and dominate the online weather industry market space, as the first publicly held online weather business," added Higgins. About Digital Courier and WeatherLabs: Digital Courier Technologies Inc. (www.dcourier.com), supplies businesses and major web portals with online content and commerce products based on a powerful matrix of server-side Java software components. The company's current content offerings include: WeatherLabs, the premiere online weather information service (www.weatherlabs.com), VideosNow (www.videosnow.com), BooksNow (www.booksnow.com), and WorldNow (www.worldnow.com). The company has also launched netClearing, an electronic commerce service for Internet Internet Publicly accessible computer network connecting many smaller networks from around the world. It grew out of a U.S. Defense Department program called ARPANET (Advanced Research Projects Agency Network), established in 1969 with connections between computers at the payment processing, clearing, and settlement.
CONTACT: WeatherLabs, Inc.
Brendan Lane Larson, Senior V.P.
415/243-9669
blarson@weatherlabs.com
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