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IMPATICA ANNOUNCES SIGNIFICANT DISTRIBUTION DEAL IN JAPAN AND UNVEILS JAPANESE VERSION OF FLAGSHIP SOFTWARE

Ottawa, Canada - July 9, 2001 - impatica.com Inc., the leading supplier of software tools for plug-in free delivery of interactive rich streaming media, announced today the launch of the Japanese language version of their popular impatica for PowerPoint™ product. Tokyo-based Intack Corporation has been appointed the exclusive distributor of impatica products in Japan. The announcement was made today at a press conference. Participating in the conference were the Honorable John Manley, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Member of Parliament for Ottawa South, and representatives from Intack Corporation and impatica.

The Japanese version of impatica for PowerPoint provides streaming delivery of PowerPoint presentations created with the Japanese version of Microsoft PowerPoint and includes a graphical user interface, diagnostic messages, user documentation and product packaging all localized to the Japanese language.

"This is a major achievement for impatica", remarked the Honorable John Manley. "Exports are a vital component of Canada's economy, especially in the high technology sector. I am especially pleased to see an exciting company in my riding expanding their international distribution to such and important trading partner as Japan."

"We see great potential for impatica's products in Japan", said Tatsuhiko Miyazaki, Representative Director and CEO of Intack Corporation. "Japan is the world's third largest economy and has the most advanced telecommunications infrastructure. Mobile communications is a way of life for both business and leisure activities. However, most of our mobile devices cannot play plug-in-based rich media content. Microsoft PowerPoint is every bit as popular in Japan as it is in North America. impatica's ability to stream narrated animated PowerPoint content to smart phones and other Internet devices makes its software a logical fit for the Japanese market."

"We are very fortunate to have Intack Corporation as our Japanese distributor", explained Michael Doyle, Chairman and CEO of impatica. "Tatsuhiko Miyazaki and Atsushi Kato have long and successful careers in the Japanese technology industry. They quickly recognized the need for Internet delivery of PowerPoint for applications, such as e-learning and tourism. We have been working with Intack for several months to ensure that we fully understood the requirements, opportunities and technical environment of the Japanese market. Today's announcement is the result of considerable efforts from both parties."

impatica for PowerPoint is a unique software tool that enables large bulky PowerPoint presentations to be streamed efficiently over the Internet or through e-mail to essentially any Internet device. impatica for PowerPoint retains PowerPoint's narration, animation, transition and navigation features and yet typically achieves 90 to 95% compression, thereby enabling narrated, animated presentations to be streamed spontaneously at modem speeds. Unlike plug-ins and other platform-specific approaches, impatica's solution facilitates delivery to an estimated 93% of Internet devices, including many of the emerging handheld Internet appliances.

About impatica

impatica for PowerPoint™ and impatica for Director™ are software tools that reduce the time, cost and complexity of creating interactive and trackable rich streaming media content for e-mail marketing, web site promotion, online advertising and online learning applications. impatica tools convert Director and PowerPoint files for plug-in free delivery at normal modem speeds.

About Intack Corporation

Tokyo-based Intack Corporation was founded by three Japanese entrepreneurs and is focused exclusively on the sales, distribution and support of impatica's products in Japan. With extensive experience in the Japanese technology industry, they are ideally positioned to rapidly establish impatica's products as the Japanese standard for streaming delivery of rich media content.

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PowerPoint is a registered trademark of Microsoft Corporation. Director is a registered trademark of Macromedia, Inc. impatica is a registered trademark of Impatica Inc.