VoiceGenie and Clickmarks Partner to Deliver Mobile VoiceXML Solutions Worldwide -- Joint Solution Gives Users Access to Enterprise and Other Information Through Multiple Channels - Including Voice

VoiceGenie Technologies Inc., the leading provider of VoiceXML Gateway solutions, and Clickmarks, a provider of software infrastructure and products for wireless carriers and enterprises, announce a strategic partnership to extend users' multi-channel access to information to include the voice-activated channel based on VoiceXML.

The VoiceGenie - Clickmarks joint VoiceXML solution provides customers with powerful integrated information access running on the award-winning VoiceGenie VoiceXML Gateway. Clickmarks' Enterprise Habitat(TM), for enterprises, and Mobile Habitat(TM), for wireless carriers, allows mobile users to access information through a voice-activated user interface, previously available only via their WAP phones and PDAs. Running on the VoiceGenie VoiceXML Gateway, these applications provide users with access to a data warehouse or email application (or any other contact point), by simply speaking into any phone. Clickmarks and VoiceGenie mobile information solutions can include key information access from enterprise applications, production systems, databases and data warehouses, email and Web pages, and any content a carrier or user desires.

"VoiceGenie is pleased to announce this strategic partnership with Clickmarks," said Eric Jackson, VoiceGenie's Vice President of Strategy and Business Development. "Together, we provide compelling information access and interaction solutions based entirely on VoiceXML, answering the call from a rapidly growing market of enterprises and carriers that are ready to deploy voice-driven solutions."

"VoiceGenie's fully-open VoiceXML Gateway and VoiceXML compliance leadership is consistent with our standards-based and vendor agnostic strategy. Partnering with VoiceGenie to provide comprehensive Voice Web solutions raises the bar in the Voice Web market," said Susan Rock, VP Strategic Alliances and Business Development of Clickmarks.

VoiceGenie's carrier-grade VoiceXML Gateway is a robust, extensible and scalable Voice Web platform that adapts to the evolving and growing needs of its customers. Engineered for large-scale deployment, the VoiceXML Gateway allows carriers and enterprises to significantly reduce lifecycle costs and simplify deployment of voice-driven applications and services. Customers may choose best in class speech recognition, and are assured open, 100% VoiceXML compliant solutions. The newest version of VoiceXML Gateway, Version 5.0, offers complete support for the new VoiceXML 2.0 specification.

About Clickmarks

Clickmarks is the leading provider of mobile software infrastructure and applications that allow enterprises to conduct mission-critical business anytime, anywhere. The Clickmarks Software Platform allows mobilization of any existing Web and enterprise application as well as creation of new mobile applications, such as branded wireless portals (for wireless carriers), m-commerce solutions or interactive voice applications, for the widest array of current and future wireless, broadband and voice devices. Clickmarks, founded in February 1999, has attracted major clients and partners, including Vodafone, and is headquartered in Fremont, California, with offices worldwide. For more information, visit www.clickmarks.com or call 510-979-2010.

About VoiceGenie

VoiceGenie is the worldwide leader in VoiceXML Gateways, Development Environments, and Tools. The VoiceGenie VoiceXML Gateway -- the first to offer 100% VoiceXML 1.0 and 2.0 compliance and the first to offer support for multiple speech- and text-to-speech engines -- allows any phone to access Voice Web applications developed using the VoiceXML standard. VoiceGenie's customers and partners comprise the world's leading organizations, including AT&T, France Telecom, SAP, Lucent, Intel, SpeechWorks, Nuance, Oracle, Eli Lilly, and more. The VoiceGenie VoiceXML Gateway was recently ranked as the No. 1 VoiceXML Gateway for a hosted environment by CT Labs, and given the 2001 Innovation Award by TMC Labs. The Kelsey Group estimates that the market for voice-enabling services will grow to $41 billion by 2005. For more information, please call 416.736.6105 or visit www.voicegenie.com.

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