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Interface Systems, Inc. announced adoption of XML as part of its new L2i (Legacy-to-Internet) technology platform. Interface will include XML support across its product line with the first implementation being its newly enhanced version of its eBill Manager product for electronic bill presentment and payment and MyCopy, designed for L2i electronic statement delivery for Web based environments. Interface’s L2i technology is the bridging technology between the mainframe, where information resides, and the desktop, where the information is needed. L2i allows companies to deliver information across the Internet or Intranets, fax machines, CD-ROMs, voice response systems or to remote and/or local printers. Interface’s L2i technology allows any Internet application to make full use of legacy application output without changing the legacy application in any way. Interface’s L2i products are based on the company’s Document Server software. These products include eBill Manager for Internet billing and MyCopy for Internet statement delivery. www.intface.com

Multicosm Inc. announced version 1.5 of Refindment for Excalibur RetrievalWare 6.7 and a worldwide reseller agreement with Excalibur Technologies.Refindment’s theming and summarization features enables users to create a virtual web of related information that is linked by concept. Refindment version 1.5 features faster theme extraction, an easier to use interface, and tighter integration with RetrievalWare. When used with Excalibur RetrievalWare, Refindment helps to rapidly analyze hundreds of documents and extract the dominant concepts in less than a minute, then stores the resulting concepts in a master index. It summarizes each of the found documents and dynamically attaches hyperlinks to the primary themes in the summaries — allowing a user to jump immediately to the parts of the source document where those themes are mentioned and bypass irrelevant information. Hyperlinks are dynamically inserted into the full documents as well, enabling users to surf through their search results based on shared concepts instead of continually returning to the results list. Refindment is available immediately from Multicosm and is planned for Q4 availability by Excalibur for Excalibur RetrievalWare 6.7. www.multicosm.com

Infodata Systems Inc. announced that James W. Myers has been named to the newly created position of Chief Operating Officer. Steve Samowich, President and CEO of Infodata, made the announcement. Prior to joining Infodata, he was Executive Vice President and General Manager at DynSolutions, Inc., a subsidiary of DynCorp, Reston, Va. Prior to DynSolutions, Myers was co-founder and president of Vantage Technologies, Inc. www.infodata.com

Document Technologies, Inc. (dTech) announced that Todd K. Andersen has joined the company as President and Chief Operating Officer. Mr. Andersen began his career as a Marketing Manager with General Mills, then spent over 5 years as a Management Consultant with McKinsey & Company. Most recently, he spent 2 years as the CEO of Oriental Emporium Ltd. in Singapore. Todd will take over the daily management of the company to allow the current President, Scott A. Theis, to focus on continuing technology development. Mr. Theis will take the title of Chairman and Charles D. Weeden will move from Chairman to Vice Chairman. www.dtech-net.com

Engage Technologies, Inc. announced it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire AdKnowledge Inc, in an all stock transaction valued at approximately $193 million. By integrating Engage’s profile based targeting, AdKnowledge customers will be able to target and analyze campaigns based on profiles of their target audience. AdKnowledge has become a widely used source for marketers targeting online advertising. To date, nearly all such targeting has been based on content specific ad buying. With Engage, AdKnowledge will be able to broaden its offering to include profile based targeting to its customers. Under the terms of the merger and contribution agreement, CMGI will initially acquire control of AdKnowledge through the issuance of approximately $170 million of CMGI common stock, followed by a contribution of AdKnowledge shares held by CMGI and AdKnowledge shareholders to Engage in exchange for approximately $193 million of Engage common stock. The transaction, which will be accounted for as a purchase, is subject to certain conditions, regulatory approval and the shareholder approval of Engage and AdKnowledge. AdKnowledge, which recently filed its S-1 with the SEC, is privately held and will become a wholly-owned subsidiary of Engage. The transaction is expected to be completed in late 1999 or early 2000. www.adknowledge.com, www.engage.com, www.cmgi.com.

XMLSolutions Corporation announced the availability of XMLZip for the Windows NT and Linux operating systems. XMLZip provides a compression tool for use with XML documents. XMLSolutions developed XMLZip to provide an efficient solution for handling large XML files. These large XML files use a disproportionate amount of transmission time over the Internet as well as large amounts of storage on both the server and client equipment. XMLZip reduces the size of XML files without adding undo-processing time to access portions of the files. XMLZip’s compression technique allows users to determine the level at which they want to compress XML files, thus allowing continued utilization of the DOM API without performance degradation. XMLZip is currently offered at no cost to the public. XMLZip supports the Windows NT and Linux platforms and will support UNIX in the near future. To download the latest release,please visit www.xmlzip.com, www.xmls.com

Akamai Technologies announced the development of a protocol that facilitates communications between caches and Akamai’s global network of servers. In separate announcements, the Company also released that leading cache vendors are implementing the new protocol. The added functionality will be derived by the development of a new standard for communications called the Cache Interface Protocol. The development of this protocol will enable caches to report on their performance – such as the number of hits served – to Web site owners through Akamai’s content delivery services. This development will expand the level of functionality in the caching market for the benefit of both ISPs and Web site owners. Akamai will make the protocol available to third parties at no cost. Caching and Internet content delivery are separate and complementary products. Caches are hardware and/or software systems sold to ISPs and enterprises for the purpose of reducing bandwidth expense and improving Internet performance. Akamai’s FreeFlow service is sold to major Web sites to improve speed and reliability, and is built upon a global network of servers deployed at ISPs’ points-of-presence (POPs) and data centers. Today, many ISPs which have installed caches also have Akamai’s servers located alongside them. Whenever Internet users request popular content from Akamai’s Web site customers, these ISPs’ caches transparently retrieve it from Akamai servers, even when it is marked uncacheable, ensuring that only fresh content is delivered. www.akamai.com