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HomeCom Enhances Personal Internet Banker.


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ATLANTA--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 7, 2000

24-hour Banking Services Expanded to Meet the Needs of

Todays' Internet Banker

HomeCom Communications, Inc. (NASDAQ NASDAQ
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 SmallCap: HCOM HCOM Human Communications (CSU Monterey Bay) ), a provider of Internet software solutions for the financial services The examples and perspective in this article or section may not represent a worldwide view of the subject.
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 industry, announced that its already successful Personal Internet Banker (PIB See NIST binary. ) has been upgraded to include several new online banking functions. These include Recurring Transfers and Payments, Check Imaging, Check Stop Payments and E-mail notifications to name a few. In addition to the enhanced functionality, PIB offers newly designed screens for easier access and a more streamline approach to home banking.

PIB, an Internet solution that provides a secure environment for a financial institutions' customers to have access to their accounts and money 24 hours-a-day, can be customized to meet any financial institutions home banking needs. The new screen designs are contemporary, easy-to-read and navigate, and can include personalized stock ticker Stock ticker

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 Ken Bozzi, HomeCom's vice president, the enhancements that have been added are a logical extension to the core services The introduction to this article provides insufficient context for those unfamiliar with the subject matter.
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 already provided by PIB. "We listened to our customers needs about what transactions are most widely asked for [and used] in an Internet banking application and included those in PIB version 3.0. We want to make PIB the most complete Internet banking application on the market."

With PIB version 3.0 Internet banking customers can view an online image of a cleared check, stop payment of a check, receive maturity notices on certificates of deposits or other accounts, receive a secured notification if an account balance falls below a pre-specified limit or if a specific check cleared and set up recurring payments or transfers to predefined accounts such a monthly bill or savings account Savings Account

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Kokomo, Indiana-based Solidarity Federal Credit Union, with more than 25,000 members, will officially launch its Internet Banking site, HomeCourt Advantage Noun 1. homecourt advantage - the advantage of playing on your home court in front of fans who are rooting for you
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, on February 25, 2000. Kathy McKenna, vice president of Data Processing data processing or information processing, operations (e.g., handling, merging, sorting, and computing) performed upon data in accordance with strictly defined procedures, such as recording and summarizing the financial transactions of a , said, "We are looking forward to the launch of our new Internet See Web 2.0 and Internet2.  Banking site, HomeCourt Advantage. Before we selected HomeCom's Personal Internet Banker, we reviewed several application providers. Two of them were eliminated very quickly, and after a thorough review, HomeCom was the clear winner. HomeCom's pricing structure is very conducive, and feature for feature PIB offered the services Solidarity wanted to provide its membership with easy-to-follow screens.

Solidarity initially sent out a dozen or so emails announcing the test HomeCourt Advantage, and to date have had more than 550 responses. "The response we have gotten to the HomeCourt Advantage is very positive," McKenna continued. "Members want to learn how they can become Internet banking users and take advantage of the online service. We expect Internet banking to be a very successful at Solidarity."

Harvey Sax, president of HomeCom Communications said, "Internet banking is gaining momentum daily and users want to perform the same transactions [online] that they can perform at the financial institution itself. It was important that we develop a solution that could continue to grow as a financial institution's home banking need matured. We anticipate more innovative credit unions like Solidarity Federal Credit Union to begin offering online banking."

About Solidarity Federal Credit Union

Established in 1955 by Delco Electronics
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Delco Electronics Corporation was the automotive electronics design and manufacturing subsidiary of General Motors.
 Employees, Kokomo, Indiana-based Solidarity Federal Credit Union serves all Delphi Delco Electronics employees, their family members, retirees and more that 64 other employee groups. Solidarity Federal Credit Union is a member-owned, financial institution that exists to provide the financial services desired by its members and currently has $118 million in assets and has more than 25,000 members.

For more information on Solidarity Federal Credit Union, write 201 Southway Boulevard, East Kokomo, Ind. 46904, call (800) 999-5894 or (765) 453-4020 or email solfcu01@netusa1.net. Visit the credit unions Web site at www.solfcu.org.

About HomeCom

HomeCom Communications, Inc. specializes in Internet application solutions for the financial services market, providing all of the professional services (job) professional services - A department of a supplier providing consultancy and programming manpower for the supplier's products.  and technology necessary to develop and integrate an online marketplace. In addition, HomeCom offers several products and services designed for e-commerce in the financial services industry, which include Personal Internet Banker(TM) (PIB), Harvey(TM), InsureRate(TM), and its Web development and Internet security services. In May 1998, HomeCom was selected by ZD Internet Magazine as one of the Top 20 Internet consulting firms in the country.

For more information about this announcement or HomeCom, call Carolyn Hall at (888) HOMECOM ext. 186 or visit the company's Web site at www.homecom.com. For investor relations Investor relations

The process by which the corporation communicates with its investors.
, call (888) HOMECOM ext. 122 or IR@homecom.com.

Certain of the statements included in this press release constitute forward-looking statements within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and Section 21 E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended. The Company notes that a variety of factors could cause the Company's actual results and experience to differ materially from those expressed in these forward-looking statements.
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