News Technologies Announces Private Label News Alerting Service

Will Allow Third Parties To Offer Custom-Branded News Alerts To Their Users

Portland, Oregon, May 1, 2003 -- News Technologies LLC announced today they now offer a derivative, private-labeled version of TriggerNews^® to be used as a customized news, weather and/or traffic alerting system for any corporation or as a front end to content providers. The new product is called TriggerNews PL (Private Label).

TriggerNews PL is comprised of two components: An Administrator and a Client application.

The client application is 130K for fast downloading to a user’s PC and runs in the background. It manages data coming from the Administrator by matching incoming news to a user’s pre-defined triggers. News matching a user's criteria is displayed in a customizable alert window. Triggers can be anything.

The Administrator forms the heart of the system. Programmed scanners pointing to news sources process articles and distribute alert data automatically to the client applications. Alternatively, human “Publisher-Editors” can manually enter and send alerts to their users.

Just some of the features found in TriggerNews PL are:

• Private branding to a company’s specifications.
• Customization of alerts (look and feel). Can be news, weather and/or traffic.
• Popup alerts based on up to 20 user-defined triggers (uses proprietarily-developed TriggerEngine^® technology)
• Multiple Publisher-Editor profile types, each with controlled access.
• Publisher-Editors can create multiple pre-defined user trigger lists.
• Alert history and corresponding statistical analysis.
• Dynamic preview of alerts.
• Three types of alert designations.
• Automatic scanner to point to incoming data source.
• Automatic client updates.
• Connections encrypted for security.
• Ad server window in client application.

The service can be hosted on a customer’s own servers. For companies wanting a third-party hosting service, News Technologies developed a business relationship with Inflow, a leading provider of IT outsourcing solutions, with 13 data centers across the country. Inflow has a long history of quality service delivery and was chosen as News Technologies' partner after an extensive review of competitors. Inflow offered the highest quality solutions for a reasonable cost.

"After announcing TriggerNews in February, we were astounded by the number of companies contacting us for a private label version of the service", said Steve Burrows, President of News Technologies. "TriggerNews PL is a natural extension to our main offering and is a cost effective solution for any company or organization wanting its constituency to be instantly notified of important information which might impact them".

In most cases, a fully implemented system can be up and running within 30 days of order receipt.

About TriggerNews

Formed in 2001, News Technologies LLC specializes in providing instant business and world news alerting services through Triggernews.com, its own branded Internet news service or through custom-developed, private-labeled news alerting software applications. The company is privately held and headquartered in Portland, Oregon. TriggerNews^®, TriggerEngine^®, Instant News For Instant Decisions^® and InfoButton^® are trademarks or servicemarks of News Technologies LLC.

For more information on TriggerNews, please visit our web site at www.triggernews.com or send inquiries to info@triggernews.com.

About Inflow

Inflow provides facilities-based IT solutions to companies with critical business and network applications. Founded in 1997, Inflow opened its first Internet Data Center (IDC) in June 1998 and currently serves more than 680 customers from its IDCs in 12 markets throughout the U.S. The Company offers customers a cost-effective outsourced alternative that is secure, redundant and fully managed. Core services include colocation, network management, managed security services, application management, data storage and InflowNet™ -- a proprietary Internet access service that guarantees 100% availability. Additional services include business continuity, Intelligent Routing for Internet access, content distribution, load balancing and remote enterprise data center management.

For additional information and IDC locations, please visit www.inflow.com or call 877-321-2464. To call the Portland IDC or speak with Preston Jones, please call 503-553-7800.