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FaceTime Builds on Global Presence With New Channel Partners in Australia, Japan, and Taiwan

Posted on: Monday, 28 June 2004, 06:00 CDT

FOSTER CITY, Calif., June 28 /PRNewswire/ -- FaceTime Communications, the leading provider of solutions that secure, manage, and extend instant messaging (IM) and other forms of real-time communications, today announced it has expanded its global reach through new partnerships with Gresham Computing, a leading software systems integrator in Australia; NEC System Technologies LTD., an IT platform software developer, systems integrator and subsidiary of NEC Corporation in Japan; and Solomon Technology Corp., a leading content security solutions distributor (through its System Applications Business Unit) in Taiwan. As part of the agreements, Gresham, NEC System Technologies, and Solomon will resell FaceTime's industry-leading solutions in their respective territories where IM use has caught up with high Internet penetration and use of mobile messaging, generating demand for security and compliance solutions that are uniquely engineered to operate in double-byte operating environments.

In addition, FaceTime appointed Olavs Ritenis to a new post in Sydney, Australia from where he will build on the company's Asia Pacific presence as director of business development for APAC. Mr. Ritenis has seventeen years of sales, marketing, and business development experience with enterprise messaging solutions in the Asian and Australian markets. The new FaceTime office and APAC partnerships combine with an additional alliance struck with AmVia, a solution enhancing company focusing on messaging and convergence in South Africa, for an expanded global presence that already includes Canada, Mexico, United Kingdom, and the United States.

"With IM now recognized as an integral part of corporate communications, we're seeing a domino effect, whereas IM is used by organizations to connect geographically dispersed offices for true collaboration on a global scale," said FaceTime Vice President of Channel Sales Sherry Walden. "FaceTime is prepared to meet this next wave of demand through our alliances with our global partners."

FaceTime continues to expand its Channel Partner Program to meet new international demand as many organizations are leveraging IM and presence to collaborate with employees, customers and partners in offices deployed around the world. The FaceTime Channel Partner Program is designed to enable leading resellers and system integrators in the messaging, collaboration and security markets to expand their solution offerings by incorporating FaceTime's products for the security, management and control of real-time communications, such as IM and P2P.

"We are proud to join FaceTime in helping Taiwanese businesses and their global counterparts safely leverage instant messaging for greater productivity and collaboration," said Vice President of System Applications Business Unit Dabby Yang at Solomon Technology Corp. "With clear market leadership, strong customer momentum and the most comprehensive IM solution suite available, FaceTime is everything we look for when striking important alliances."

"NEC System Technologies is looking forward to introducing FaceTime Communications' market leading IM security solutions to Japan," said Kazuyuki Jimbo, general manager of the Network Software Division of NEC System Technologies. "IM usage by Japanese corporations is growing rapidly as they realize the value of being able to connect instantly and easily with contacts. However, there is an increasing concern over information security within corporations using IM. As a result, we are now seeing tremendous demand in Japan for solutions that secure, manage and control enterprise IM."

For more information about the FaceTime Channel Partner Program, please visit http://www.facetime.com/partners.shtm . For more information about new launch activities in Japan and Taiwan please email apac@facetime.com. For additional information about the UK and other worldwide offices, please email emea@facetime.com.

About FaceTime Communications

Founded in 1998, FaceTime Communications is the leading provider of extensible real time security and management solutions that address network and information security, regulatory and corporate compliance, and call center customer service. FaceTime's award-winning solutions are used by over 350 customers, with over 50 percent of the largest global 100 financial institutions, including seven of the eight largest U.S. banks. Hundreds of customers worldwide, including Amica Insurance, Dominion Energy, Hewlett-Packard, NCR, Standard Bank London, Thomas Weisel Partners and Wachovia Securities among others rely on FaceTime solutions. FaceTime has strategic partnerships with leading public and private IM network providers, including AOL, Microsoft, IBM, Bloomberg, Jabber and Reuters.

FaceTime is headquartered in Foster City, California. For more information on FaceTime, visit http://www.facetime.com/ or call 888-349-FACE.

NOTE: FaceTime and the FaceTime logo are registered trademarks of FaceTime Communications Inc. FaceTime IM Auditor, IM Director, IM Guardian, RTG and RT Monitor are trademarks of FaceTime Communications Inc. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners.

CONTACT: Chris Blake of MSR Communications, +1-415-447-6115, ext. 13, or chris@msrcommunications.com, for FaceTime.

FaceTime Communications Inc.

CONTACT: Chris Blake of MSR Communications, +1-415-447-6115, ext. 13, orchris@msrcommunications.com, for FaceTime

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