1stWorks News

For Release: January 29, 2002
1stWorks Confirms its Platinum Partner Commitment to KMPro, the Leading Organization for the Promotion and Implementation of Knowledge Management Education, and Announces New hotComm Business Tools for Secure Global Peer to Peer Collaboration Among Users of All Major Business Applications.

Release 18 of hotComm now supports group navigation, dynamic content update and secure markup for all major business applications like Word, Lotus 123, or AutoCAD, sharing content and revisions inside any OLE compliant application.


Sudbury MA, January 29, 2002 - 1stWorks Corporation, is proud to confirm its commitment to KMPro, the leading organization for the understanding, promotion, education and implementation of Knowledge Management technology. KMPro offers a comprehensive range of training, networking and discussion opportunities, all designed to better enable KMPro members to confidently deliver the returns which Corporations expect from this exciting area. As a Platinum Partner, 1stWorks provides a free 6 month registration to any KMPro member who downloads and installs hotComm, its secure desktop collaboration software. Today, 1stWorks Corporation also announces the immediate availability of hotComm Release 18, the latest version of this powerful and secure desktop collaboration software. The features and the business benefits in this release, added to hotComm's existing range of spontaneous collaboration capabilities, truly deliver the tools to leverage the potential for group collaboration across any Enterprise.

hotComm delivers spontaneous collaboration. There is no waiting or advanced scheduling required. Simply select the group members from your Peer list and get to work using secure group chat or voice over IP communication. It's easier than walking down the corridor to talk with a colleague. Once a collaboration session is established, any document, spreadsheet or Web page can be sent to the entire group. Immediately, the selected content opens on each desktop in the group.

hotComm works the way you work, to realize fully the benefits of group collaboration with world wide participants.

hotComm supports multiple communication modes for group access: As with other hotComm communications, every file transfer is protected through encryption with a unique, dynamic key specific to the particular users in each individual session.

A free trial copy of hotComm Release 18 is available for download now at: www.hotcomm.com/downloads.asp.

About 1stWorks Corporation

Founded in mid 2000 by executives from several successful Internet software startups and based just outside Boston, MA. 1stWorks has created a scalable peer network architecture capable of supporting secure global connections among hundreds of millions of simultaneous users, including a peer network management and application development platform. 1stWorks powerful desktop client, hotComm, connects users instantly, using secure Peer connections, to provide interactive messaging, voice, file transfer, group navigation and shared applications. All solutions are designed to deliver authenticated, real time, interactive messaging and data manipulation capabilities based on secure group communication and collaboration.

For more information on 1stWorks Corporation or on hotComm, visit www.1stworks.com.

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