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Prosodie Interactive and Information Services Extended -ISx- Announce Intention to Form Alliance...

Publication: Business Wire
Date: Monday, September 23 2002

Business Editors/High-Tech Writers

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 23, 2002

Companies Intend to Combine Resources and Respective "Best of

Breed" Directory and Interactive Voice Technologies to

Bring to Market New, Innovative Services

Prosodie Interactive, a leading provider of hosted and managed interactive voice response, speech recognition, unified communications, virtual call center, and telephone-based and internet-based services, and ISx, a market leading technology provider of "Directory Assistance" software solutions, today announced they have entered into a Memorandum of Understanding to form an alliance to jointly develop and market new software applications and services.

While the exact terms of the MOU remain confidential, Prosodie Interactive and ISx will work exclusively with each other to develop revolutionary, cost-saving market applications and services. Each party will contribute funding, manpower and technology resources to the relationship.

"I am incredibly excited at this prospect for both of our companies and for our customers. This is certainly a prime example of where the whole is greater than the sum of its parts," said Michael Self, President of Prosodie Interactive. "Prosodie Interactive and ISx have complementary organizations and technical infrastructures. Working together, and combining our expertise, we anticipate being able to quickly bring to market, several applications that we hold great promise of acceptance in the marketplace," added Rand Mulford, Vice President of Business Development of ISx.

About Prosodie Interactive, Inc.

Headquartered in Conshohocken, Pennsylvania, Prosodie Interactive, Inc. is the U.S. subsidiary of Prosodie, S.A., a fully licensed French Telecom operator that specializes in telephone-based CRM (Customer Relationship Management) services. Prosodie Interactive, Inc. is a telecommunications service provider that offers a host of next generation communications applications such as unified communications, interactive voice response services, call center solutions, interactive web services, virtual ACD and predictive dialing, and high capacity voice broadcasting. For more information about Prosodie Interactive, please visit the company's web site at http://www.prosodieinteractive.com.

Prosodie, S.A. is a publicly traded company, premiering on the Nouveau Marche in Paris on November 17th, 1998. For more information on Prosodie, S.A. please visit http://www.prosodie.com.

About Information Services Extended (ISx), Inc.

For more than 25 years, the ISx platform has been a world leader in directory assistance software, with a strong reputation for technological and service excellence. Now ISx is developing a new generation of directory services software capabilities to meet the unique demands associated with wireless application, expanded service offerings, and voice automation. ISx, Inc. (http://www.isxinc.com) serves customers in North and South America, Europe, Australia and the Pacific Rim. ISx is headquartered in Fort Lauderdale, Fla. and has field offices in the United States, Europe and Asia. ISx is ISO 9001 certified.

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