1stWorks News

For Release: April 14, 2002
1stWorks improves hotComm with freeSpeech, secure Voice over IP communication from your desktop to visitors who click any active link on your Web page, or even from inside your email messages.

1stWorks extends its patent pending technology to launch an instant interactive Voice connection from a button on your Web page or from inside email messages. Speak with your customers and prospects from anywhere. Dynamic address redirection finds you, wherever, whenever and however you access the Internet.


Sudbury MA, April 14, 2002 - 1stWorks Corporation, today announced the release of freeSpeech, its innovative and inexpensive solution for instant and secure online voice communication, building improved customer relationships directly from links on any web page or in an email message.

IM-Live delivers immediate, serverless, Internet-based Messaging for any online sales and service opportunities. When a prospect clicks on an active link which you have placed on your Web page, IM-Live launches a small Java applet from your hotComm client and automatically creates a direct, secure, real time connection between you and your customers or prospects. If the caller has a Windows PC with speakers and a microphone, they can download and install freeSpeech in only 30 seconds and speak directly to you. Now you can really respond to questions in real time to make the sale or solve the problem. Customer inquiries can be answered wherever you connect to the Internet, immediately, interactively, creating the timely response that builds better customer relationships.

IM-Live also adds the same dynamic connection capability to your email messages. Any email can now have an active link right in it. Just add an IM-Live link in any email to be instantly more effective. Close your email message with: "P.S. Click on my IM-Live link, we can discuss this immediately." A simple click on that link opens a Java applet window for the recipient and creates an immediate, real time interactive messaging connection from any browser, redirecting the connection to the sender's desktop.

IM-Live creates its connections across the 1stWorks Peer Network, a highly innovative and patented address management solution designed as the foundation for enabling a new generation of peer to peer software connections.

A 30-day trial copy of hotComm, including "freeSpeech", is available now at www.hotcomm.com/downloads.asp.

About 1stWorks Corporation

Founded in mid 2000 by executives from several successful Internet software startups and based just outside Boston, MA. 1stWorks has created a scalable peer network architecture capable of supporting secure global connections among hundreds of millions of simultaneous users, including a peer network management and application development platform. 1stWorks powerful desktop client, hotComm, connects users instantly, using secure Peer connections, to provide interactive messaging, voice, file transfer, group navigation and shared applications. All solutions are designed to deliver authenticated, real time, interactive messaging and data manipulation capabilities based on secure group communication and collaboration.

For more information on 1stWorks Corporation or on hotComm, visit www.1stworks.com.

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1stWorks Contact:
Nigel R. Spicer
nigel@1stworks.com
Voice: (508) 541-6781