EMUMAIL and MessageBay First to Voice-Enable Existing Email

SANTA-CLARA, CA - October 19th, 1999 -- Use your existing email address and "just add voice." That's what EMUMAIL's free Mollymail.com website offers. MollyMail, the Internet's first dedicated POP email service, now lets you send and retrieve voice-enabled email using your existing address, and without having to use telephone or signup for an email account. Sending or receiving voicemail is as simple as clicking a button on MollyMail's voice-enabled pages.

"MollyMail and MessageBay are excited to make online voicemail available to more and more individuals," says MessageBay CEO Jon Louis. "It has never been easier to send and receive voicemail on the web using your existing email address."

"We found MessageBay to be the ideal voicemail solution for our free email service and software products," says Matt Mankins, President of EMUMAIL. "There was minimal integration required, and MessageBay handles all the streaming and storage of voice, which has greatly accelerated our time to market." EMUMAIL and MessageBay plan to announce a commercial release of the voice-enabled backend which runs MollyMail.com as early as December of this year.

How It Works: The Record and Preview buttons are built seamlessly into MollyMail's webpages. A small browser component installs automatically from the web when you visit the site. Your voice streams both to and from a MessageBay server "invisibly" and in real-time, so there are no attachments created. Because the system works through the browser's protocol, there are no known proxy server or firewall issues. MessageBay's browser components use DSP Group's (NASDAQ:DSPG) TrueSpeech® 8.5 for high compression and clear speech quality. The browser components work with Windows 95, 98, and NT using IE or Netscape 4.0 or higher. A Macintosh plug-in is currently in beta and will be released shortly.

About MessageBay, Inc.

MessageBay, Inc. helps websites build communities through its user-friendly Voice over IP services. The MessageBay technology allows site visitors to record, play and send voice messages through real time streaming to and from a MessageBay server. Applications include voice greeting cards, personal ads, photo-upload sites, messageboards, email, and a web-based instant messenger. MessageBay is located in Santa Clara, California. For more information, visit the MessageBay website at http://www.messagebay.com.

About EMUMAIL, Inc.

EMUMAIL created the first commercially available web based e-mail program in 1995. Since that time EMUMAIL has enjoyed a wide range of success selling its namesake webmail engine to corporations, ISPs and academic institutions globally. TrueSpeech is a registered trademark of DSP Group, Inc. MessageBay is a registered trademark of MessageBay, Inc. EMUMAIL is a registered trademark of EMUMAIL, Inc.
 
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