Redmond, WA, February 26, 1999: Email has become the preferred method of business communication among today's professional workforce. The advantages of email are obvious: Messages (including time and date stamps) can be archived and retrieved for clarification; they can be sent to multiple recipients and included in replies or added to other documents; important files can be instantly exchanged by attaching them to messages. However, as email becomes an ever more ubiquitous means of business communication, today's professional workforce is becoming increasingly mobile. This presents a serious problem for business people who spend more and more of their time away from their offices. While travelling, remotely connecting to one's LAN or ISP is intrusive, time-consuming and often impossible. Therefore, most mobile workers put off retrieving their email until the evening when they return to home or hotel. However, important email doesn't become unimportant just because you are away from your desk.. The need to respond quickly to colleagues, clients and critical business issues is not diminished simply because information is communicated via email as opposed to voice.

According to Andrew Seybold of the Andrew Seybold Group, "We firmly believe that the killer application for wireless data is the ability to provide mobile workers with untethered access to their existing server-based email accounts."

The Software Labs' 'PageAbility' is just such an application. Working in conjunction with BellSouth's wireless data network, PageAbility provides subscribers with nationwide wireless access to their regular email accounts. In addition, PageAbility links to the most popular PC-based scheduling software programs to keep users connected to their daily scheduled events.

PageAbility eliminates the need to dial in and request your email. When an email message arrives in your regular email in-box, PageAbility "pushes" a copy of the message out to your pager. Instead of waiting for hours to call in and check for important messages, your email arrives on your wireless device within minutes. Robust user-definable email filtering allows you to completely control the content and format of the messages you receive, and PageAbility's 'Dual-Phase SPAM Filtering System' virtually eliminates unwanted and costly junk email. Other key features include message forwarding to groups, message breaking (receive up to the entire contents of messages that exceed carriers' short messaging character limits), message-forwarding from multiple email accounts, word/phrase auto-abbreviation reduces character count and service fees, and a remote control feature that enables two-way wireless users to configure the program's key functions from a remote location. In addition, PageAbility Mail-Link's exclusive 'CostManagement System' enables companies to proactively control and manage messaging costs.

PageAbility's built-in scheduler and its ability to communicate with the most popular PC personal information managers, including Microsoft Outlook and Schedule+, ACT!, GoldMine, and TeleMagic, allow the user to receive detailed, timely reminders of meetings and scheduled events. PageAbility's ability to "push" appointment notification to your wireless device eliminates the need to plug-in and synchronize software between your computer and your wireless device. Even if an appointment is added to your PC scheduler while you are out of the office, PageAbility provides wireless advance notice of the of the added event.

PageAbility will work with any PCS, SMS or GSM carrier, any alpha pager, PCS phone or message-ready PDA, and all of the most popular email programs and platforms. "The 1999 BellSouth Wireless Data Solutions Conference is an excellent opportunity to showcase the best of what we have to offer" said Paul J. O'Dell, Director of Marketing of The Software Labs. "We are looking forward to presenting our enterprise and personal wireless data solutions to the BellSouth reseller community!"

The Software Labs, Inc. is an industry leader in wireless messaging and connectivity applications and has provided software solutions to over five million customers worldwide since 1986. The company has developed and published award-winning products that leverage state-of-the-art technology to enhance corporate and end-user productivity. With over a dozen years of experience in software development, publishing, private labeling, package design, duplication, order fulfillment and retail, corporate and direct mail sales, The Software Labs is well positioned to offer its corporate clients complete turnkey solutions. Information on the company and its products can be obtained by calling (425) 869-6802 or visiting our websites at http://www.softwarelabs.com or http://www.pageability.com.

BellSouth Wireless Data, L.P, headquartered in Woodbridge, N.J., is an expert in providing proven wireless data communications solutions that eliminate the barriers between critical information and mobile users. The company, a winner of the prestigious Sears Innovation Source of the Year and Partners in Progress awards for 1997, delivers a competitive advantage and increases personal productivity for aggressive, innovative companies and individuals leveraging communications technologies to meet their strategic goals. BellSouth Wireless Data operates its wireless data service throughout the United States, covering more than 93 percent of the urban business population located in 266 metropolitan areas with a total population of 200 million people.