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TORONTO, Nov. 17, 2004 - Messaging solutions provider Ceryx is now offering a 100 per cent e-mail uptime guarantee for its Hosted Exchange 2003 service. The promise is made possible because Ceryx is the first ASP in North America to include real-time replication with data rewind and e-mail continuity services with Microsoft’s Hosted Exchange 2003.

“For most businesses, e-mail is a mission-critical application, but too often e-mail systems fail,” explained Gus Harsfai, President and CEO of Ceryx. “Whether it’s due to a disaster, failed upgrade, hardware failure, data corruption, or virus activity, an average e-mail outage lasts longer than eight hours when recovery from tape backup is required.”

“This is not acceptable, 99.9 per cent uptime is not even possible if you rely solely on tape backup; we believe businesses should not have to endure any e-mail downtime,” Harsfai continued.

Ceryx will achieve 100 per cent uptime through a unique combination of technology, architecture and service. Ceryx’s Hosted Exchange is replicated in real-time between two fully-redundant Tier 4 data centres and includes their proprietary e-mail firewall protection.

One of the key differentiators of Ceryx’s Hosted Exchange service is Exchange Data Rewind™ (EDR). This technology enables rapid recovery from Exchange system failures that conventionally require hours of recovery effort and cause lost productivity during an outage. In the event of a system problem, EDR rewinds data to a point just prior to the outage allowing Ceryx administrators to inoculate the system against the outage and ensuring e-mail users have uninterrupted service.

ABOUT CERYX
Ceryx helps businesses achieve email reliability by bringing together operational experience, advanced infrastructure, and proprietary research and product development with leading messaging and collaboration solutions. With operations in Toronto and New York, as well as Tier 4 redundant data centres in both cities, Ceryx’s team of senior messaging professionals have met Fortune 500 companies’ messaging needs across North America for more than 17 years. Ceryx offers clients a suite of messaging services that include hosted and managed email systems, and email security. Visit www.ceryx.com for more information.

For more information, please contact:
Aine Magennis
Sequentia Communications
[email protected]
(416) 203-3656 ext. 224

Bill Di Nardo
Ceryx Inc.
(416) 482-9659 ext. 107
[email protected]

TORRANCE, Calif., November 3, 2004 - LiveOffice Corporation (www.liveoffice.com), the developer of the AdvisorMail (www.advisormail.net) product line*, today announced the availability of AdvisorMail HF, designed to help hedge funds meet new SEC regulations surrounding the proper monitoring, archiving and retrieval of email and instant message (IM) communications.

AdvisorMail HF, an extension of the AdvisorMail product line, is specifically designed for hedge funds needing a fast and easy automated solution for monitoring, archiving and retrieving emails and IMs in accordance with SEC Rule 203(b)(3)-2. This new Rule requires many hedge funds to register with the SEC under the Investment Advisers Act of 1940 and includes strict regulations on the handling of electronic communications such as email and IM.

“The rapid adoption of AdvisorMail has proven that email and instant message compliance doesn’t have to be a budget buster for financial services firms,” said Steve Uhring, vice president of sales and marketing for LiveOffice Corp. “With AdvisorMail HF, we can now deliver the same rapid implementation and cost effective solution that has worked so well for broker-dealers and investment advisory firms to hedge funds.”

Currently in use at a range of financial services firms, from large, enterprise-size independent broker-dealers to investment advisory firms with one employee, AdvisorMail enables organizations of all sizes to electronically monitor, retain and archive thousands of emails, attachments and IMs in a secure location. Ensuring that firms meet all SEC, NASD and NYSE requirements, AdvisorMail, AdvisorMail Lite and AdvisorMail HF allow for the fast retrieval of these communications during audits, investigations or litigation. The AdvisorMail suite is also the only outsourced compliance product that can accommodate most existing email addresses or configurations, minimizing implementation disruptions to organizations’ daily business activities and operations.

AdvisorMail HF enables hedge funds to:

  • Achieve full SEC compliance in a week
  • Seamlessly capture all inbound and outbound emails, attachments and IMs in a secure environment
  • Eliminate costly upfront investments in hardware, software or IT personnel
  • Review emails and IMs on-demand and search by a number of criterion, including key word text, sender, recipient and date
  • Select from LiveOffice’s variety of email hosting options with limited impact to current email configurations
  • Store emails online for rapid and compliant retrieval

Pricing and Availability
AdvisorMail HF enables hedge funds with up to 15 email addresses to incorporate email and instant message archiving and storage into their organizations for approximately $2,500 per year. In addition, users of AdvisorMail HF are eligible for a 45-day free trial of LiveOffice’s IMConferencing, a compliance-friendly web, audio and video conferencing solution.

15Oct

800onemail is now Ceryx Inc.

Posted by Exchange Hosting Reviews as Ceryx, Press Releases

TORONTO, Oct. 15, 2004 - We are pleased to announce that 800onemail has changed its name to Ceryx Inc. We made this change in an effort to build a brand that is more aligned with our values and aspirations. While the name has changed, all of the things our customers have told us are important to them will remain the same.

We started the re-branding process by talking to our customers and getting terrific feedback. They told us their impressions, what they liked, and what could be improved. They helped us build this new brand identity.

Why did we choose Ceryx? Renaming a company is no small challenge, and we spent a lot of time researching possible names that would reflect all of the qualities we felt were important and would also be as unique as we are in the world of e-mail service providers. Ceryx is actually Latin for herald, a person who delivers important messages. Ceryx also turned out to be a Greek god, and who like his father Hermes, was a messenger for the gods. Clearly the “Fates” had intervened.

Any good re-branding effort requires a logo that visually represents the business. Like our name, our new logo has a number of elements that represent our business. The first element you might notice is the icon in the middle of the logo which represents our people. Many of the things our customers value most about us are our people. If you cut the logo in half, the left and right side are perfect mirror images of each other; this speaks to the way we architect all of our solutions -fully redundant and replicated in at least two locations. When you view the image holistically you should see the infinity symbol, a symbol of our constant evolution towards our goal of systems that are always on, always available, always reliable.

We are excited about the changes. While the short term impact on you is fewer letters to type into a web address line, I can tell you there are going to be more exciting announcements soon that will have a positive impact on how we do business. As we evolve as a company, Ceryx will continue to lead by providing superior security, architecture, and customer service; but we will also lead with accelerated product development, enhanced services and our commitment to constant improvement. We want to continue to be a trusted herald.

Gus Harsfai
President & CEO
Ceryx Inc.

For more information, please contact:
Aine Magennis
Sequentia Communications
[email protected]
(416) 203-3656 ext. 224

Bill Di Nardo
Ceryx Inc.
(416) 482-9659 ext. 107
[email protected]

TORRANCE, Calif., October 6, 2004 - LiveOffice Corporation (www.liveoffice.com), the developer of the AdvisorMail (www.advisormail.net) product line1, today confirmed that financial services organizations are racing to ensure strict compliance with NASD and SEC regulations for email and instant message (IM) communications. This finding is supported by the record high number of AdvisorMail deployments in August and September, coupled with this month’s installation schedule, and indicates that the rush to meet email and IM compliance guidelines is not over.

“In the last couple of months, we have seen a steady increase in inquiries from financial services firms needing an easy-to-use and cost effective email and IM compliance solution to meet SEC and NASD guidelines,” said Steve Uhring, vice president of sales and marketing for LiveOffice Corp. “Many of these organizations have recently been through a regulatory audit or know someone who has, and they understand how serious regulatory bodies have become about maintaining accurate and tamper-proof email and IM records.”

Live Office’s Advisor Mail and Advisor Mail Lite are the leading choice for automated email/IM archiving and retrieval with features and benefits including:

  • Monitoring and archiving of all incoming and outgoing email and instant message communications
  • Total fulfillment of SEC/NASD/NYSE requirements for email surveillance, archiving and retrieval
  • Support for multiple email domains and configurations
  • Built-in compliance lexicon of relevant words and phrases
  • Integrated security and spam protection
  • No capital investment in hardware, software or connectivity

AdvisorMail Produces Back-to-Back Growth Years
Over the last three years, AdvisorMail has quickly become the top choice for email and IM monitoring and archiving among organizations with remote field offices. As a result, the product is now in use at more than 250 financial institutions and 5,000 remote field offices nationwide.

LiveOffice’s relationship with 25% of the nation’s largest independent broker-dealers continues to contribute to the product’s growth. In addition, the company expects to see accelerated growth of AdvisorMail through 2006 as email and IM compliance remain top of mind for financial services organizations.

Upcoming Events
LiveOffice will demonstrate AdvisorMail and AdvisorMail Lite at the upcoming SIA Small Firms Conference on October 7 at the Palace Hotel in San Francisco. The company will also be exhibiting at the NRS Fall Compliance and Risk Management Conference at the Ritz Carlton in New Orleans, LA, October 11 14 and the NASD Fall Securities Conference at the Westin Mission Hills Resort in Rancho Mirage, CA, October 13 15.

Special Pricing Extended
LiveOffice also announced today that it will extend AdvisorMail Lite’s discounted setup cost of $1,500 through October 30, 2004. In addition, users of AdvisorMail and AdvisorMail Lite are eligible for a 45-day free trial of LiveOffice’s IMConferencing, a compliance-friendly web, audio and video conferencing solution.

DES MOINES, Iowa—September 29, 2004—LightEdge Solutions, Inc., a Midwest leader in data networking and managed business services, and Associated Computer Systems, Ltd. (ACS), an Iowa-based IBM Premier Business Partner, today announced a partnership to offer a disaster recovery solution for small- and medium-sized businesses. The disaster recovery solution integrates the IBM eServer iSeries business computer with LightEdge’s communications network. The IBM eServer iSeries runs the most popular operating systems like OS/400, Microsoft 2000 and 2003 Server, Linux and AIX. The entire solution is hosted in LightEdge’s state-of-the-art data center, a multi-homed, redundant core network based in Iowa.

“In light of recent disastrous events, we’re seeing a trend of increasing demand among small- and medium-sized businesses for disaster recovery and business continuity solutions,” said Tony Foth, vice president of ACS. “For many small businesses, loss of data and access to business applications significantly impacts their productivity and bottom line, so hosting our disaster recovery solution in LightEdge’s carrier-class data center helps to minimize the effects of such events.”

Businesses look to implement disaster recovery or business continuity programs to ensure that critical business applications, corporate data, and productivity remain intact during events such as natural disasters, network outages, or sabotage. ACS’s disaster recovery solution is designed to cater to the specific needs of businesses in the following ways:

  • Protects server data from accidental loss or destruction in the event of a malicious attack or failure;
  • Enables quick response and restoration of mission-critical data with managed backup and restore services;
  • Minimizes the costs and time associated with recovering from server data loss;
  • Allows remote sites to get back on-line in a matter of hours, not days, and without requiring a significant number of reconfiguration hours during and after a disaster.

“In combination, ACS’s disaster recovery solution and our redundant, meshed IP WAN network offer businesses an end-to-end solution, from the application to the network,” said Jim Masterson, chief executive officer and president of LightEdge Solutions. “Together, we are dedicated to technology leadership and best-in-class service and support.”

Businesses can rest assured knowing that their networks and systems will remain operational because ACS’s disaster recovery solution is hosted in LightEdge’s state-of-the-art, carrier-class facility that includes secured access, environmental controls, and redundant power. LightEdge’s data center offers the following benefits:

  • Round-the-clock secured access that is monitored 24/7 by surveillance and security personnel to protect equipment, including a two-phase entry system with biometric scans;
  • Secure cabinets that are viewable through real-time cameras by authorized individuals;
  • A high-volume, highly-redundant system regulates temperature, humidity, and air flow to create the optimal condition for computing equipment;
  • Multiple power grids offer the greatest power redundancy; backup generators, secondary dock access, uninterruptible power supply (UPS), and surge suppression provide backup services in the event of an outage;
  • Fire suppression and dry pipe water systems protect infrastructure and minimize fire damage.

To introduce the disaster recovery solution and to educate businesses on disaster recovery approaches and best practices, ACS and LightEdge are offering a free seminar series available on the following dates:

Wednesday, October 13 Omaha, NE 9:00 a.m. and 1:00 p.m.
Thursday, October 14 Des Moines, IA 9:00 a.m. and 1:00 p.m.
Thursday, October 21 Cedar Rapids, IA 9:00 a.m. and 1:00 p.m.

For more information on the disaster recovery seminars or to register, visit ACS online at www.acsltd.com/dr or contact Tiffany Bronk at 515-223-0078 or [email protected].

About Associated Computer Systems, LTD.
Associated Computer Systems, Ltd. (ACS), an IBM Premier Business Partner, is an Iowa-based business that utilizes state-of-the-art technologies to provide customized business solutions. Serving business for almost 25 years, ACS designs and integrates information systems to enable companies to improve their operational effectiveness and efficiency. ACS provides marketing support and professional services to clients that use IBM’s iSeries (AS/400) and Network computer systems, and supports a large client base that utilizes both industry-specific and in-house applications software. The ACS team combines quality computing products with professional expertise and local support to provide the best total solution. For more information, visit ACS’s Web site at http://www.acsltd.com.

About LightEdge Solutions
LightEdge Solutions® empowers businesses to be more productive, mobile and effective with managed voice and data services delivered through a multi-homed, Cisco Powered Network data center environment. By out-tasking voice, data and IT services, small and medium sized businesses are able to realize unparalleled scalability and reliability with a lower total cost of ownership and reduced administration. For more information about services available for your business, visit LightEdge’s web site at www.lightedge.com.

LightEdge Solutions® and the LightEdge Solutions logo, and Scale-on-Demand™ are trademarks, registered trademarks, or service marks of LightEdge Solutions, Inc. EdgeBCC™ and the EdgeBCC logo are trademarks, registered trademarks, or service marks of the Edge Business Continuity Center. All other brands or products are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective holders.

TORONTO, Sept. 1, 2004 - Eventi is pleased to announce it has completed the merger of one of its investments, ThinOffice, with leading Canadian messaging services provider, 800onemail. Eventi has also made a subsequent investment in 800onemail, which provides innovative hosted e-mail messaging solutions including Exchange, e-mail firewall and business continuity. Eventi Inc. is a private equity investment company that provides capital, human resources and management consultancy to help existing businesses accelerate their growth.

Eventi invests in and partners with companies that are profitable, have a clear market opportunity and are poised to take advantage of technology-driven change. With a strong technology background, Eventi identified the messaging and Hosted Exchange industry as a growth opportunity and felt that 800onemail stood out as an end-to-end messaging services provider with a proven industry track record.

“In 800onemail, we found a company that was profitable and had a solid and loyal customer base, including blue chip, marquee clients. We also found a company that had more than 17 years experience in what many people feel is a nascent growth market,” said Bill Di Nardo, CEO of Eventi Inc. “We investigated a number of methods for getting into the Hosted Exchange industry, but the fact that they had extensive experience operating hosted systems put 800onemail well above the pack.”

Gus Harsfai, 800onemail’s founder and CEO had entertained other strategic alliances to help grow his company but Eventi’s offer was the most promising.

“Eventi brings more than just capital to the table. It brings a long-term, patient view to growth, as well as outstanding human capital,” said Harsfai. “The company’s principals have terrific experience in managing rapid growth, technology-based businesses and are well versed in the hosted messaging arena. Most importantly, we share similar corporate values and practices.”

The company that Eventi merged with 800onemail, ThinOffice, was an e-mail and messaging services provider.

ABOUT EVENTI INC.
Eventi Inc. provides capital, human resources, and management consultancy to help existing technology-based opportunities accelerate their growth. Our company’s members include Bill Di Nardo (founder and former CEO of Grocery Gateway), and Derek Ruston (Chairman of Environics Research, private equity investor and former McKinsey consultant). Visit www.eventi.ca for more information.

ABOUT 800onemail
800onemail helps businesses achieve 100 per cent e-mail reliability by bringing together operational experience, advanced infrastructure, and proprietary research and product development with leading messaging and collaboration solutions. With operations in Toronto and New York, as well as Tier 4 redundant data centres in both cities, 800onemail’s team of senior messaging professionals have met Fortune 500 companies’ messaging needs across North America for more than 17 years. 800onemail offers clients a suite of messaging services that include hosted systems, and e-mail security. Visit www.800onemail.com for more information.

For more information, please contact:
Aine Magennis
Sequentia Communications
[email protected]
(416) 203-3656 ext. 224

Bill Di Nardo
Ceryx Inc.
(416) 482-9659 ext. 107
[email protected]

TORRANCE, Calif. and LAKEVILLE, Conn., July 6, 2004 - LiveOffice Corporation (www.liveoffice.com), the leading provider of web sites, compliance systems and collaborative applications, and National Regulatory Services (NRS, www.nrs-inc.com), a division of Thomson Media, and the top, national compliance consulting firm today announced a comprehensive package of technology and consulting services to assist investment advisory firms in meeting the SEC regulatory compliance requirements surrounding email and instant message (IM) communications.

LiveOffice now offers AdvisorMail Lite, a version of its popular AdvisorMail email and IM compliance system that has been designed specifically for investment advisory firms with 15 or less employees. AdvisorMail Lite is packaged and priced to help investment advisors quickly meet SEC regulatory requirements for email and IM compliance. As part of this package, firms purchasing AdvisorMail Lite will also receive one hour of compliance consulting services from NRS’ investment advisory experts. During this consulting session, firms will receive assistance in meeting all the new SEC requirements for email and IM monitoring, storage and retrieval.

“We have talked to many investment advisory firms over the last couple of months and it is clear that these organizations are in desperate need of an affordable solution for email and IM monitoring and archiving,” said Ann Davis, director of business development for LiveOffice Corp. “Our new AdvisorMail Lite offering coupled with the consulting services of NRS provides investment advisory firms with a truly comprehensive compliance solution.”

“We have talked to many investment advisory firms over the last couple of months and it is clear that these organizations are in desperate need of an affordable solution for email and IM monitoring and archiving,” said Ann Davis, director of business development for LiveOffice Corp. “Our new AdvisorMail Lite offering coupled with the consulting services of NRS provides investment advisory firms with a truly comprehensive compliance solution.”

AdvisorMail Lite enables investment advisory firms to:

  • Achieve full SEC compliance in a week
  • Seamlessly monitor all inbound and outbound emails, attachments and IMs in a secure environment
  • Eliminate costly upfront investments in hardware, software or IT personnel
  • Review emails and IMs on-demand and search by a number of criterion, including key word text, sender, recipient and date
  • Select from LiveOffice’s variety of email hosting options with limited impact to current email configurations
  • Store emails online for rapid and compliant retrieval

“The new and upcoming regulations are putting a tremendous compliance burden on small investment advisory firms,” said Bill Cavell, director, Investment Adviser Services for NRS. “Our role is to help financial services professionals navigate the complicated regulatory landscape and determine strategies that can help these firms reduce unwanted attention from the SEC. Teaming with LiveOffice enables us to offer an unmatched package of compliance technology and consulting services to these firms.”

Pricing & Availability
AdvisorMail Lite will enable investment advisory firms with up to 15 employees to incorporate email and instant message archiving and storage into their organizations for approximately $2,500 per year. In addition, users of AdvisorMail Lite are eligible for a 45-day free trial of LiveOffice’s IMConferencing, a compliance-friendly web, audio and video conferencing solution.

AdvisorMail Lite also is available at a discount through Fidelity Investments?’s PracticeAdvantage, a comprehensive network of practice management and businessbuilding resources for advisors.

NEW YORK, June 8, 2004 - LiveOffice Corporation (www.liveoffice.com), the leading provider of web sites, compliance systems and collaborative applications, announced today that it has completed the integration of its IMConferencing 2.0 (IMC, www.imconferencing.com) web conferencing system with Microsoft Outlook™, Microsoft Outlook Express™ and public instant messaging (IM) networks, including MSN™ and Yahoo!™.

IMC 2.0 takes web conferencing to a new level by leveraging the three most popular business communication tools the telephone, email and IM to launch instant and scheduled online meetings and teleconferences to one or multiple participants. These new features provide users with enhanced usability by allowing them to access existing contact and calendar information in MS Outlook/Outlook Express whenever they want to initiate an IMC web meeting. Users can also install an IMC button in the toolbar of their public IM client that enables them to launch web meetings directly from chat sessions in just one-click. All of these options give IMC users the ultimate flexibility to seamlessly conduct multimedia web meetings from the communication platform of their choice.

LiveOffice is the first web conferencing vendor to integrate intuitive presence features directly into Microsoft Outlook’ that alert the email recipient to the sender’s online status (e.g. online, away, in a meeting, etc.). If the recipient is already a registered IMC user, they can click on the presence button and begin an instant web meeting. For unregistered users, an email invitation containing a URL link and registration instructions is auto-generated to them, allowing the recipient to register and download the IMConferencing application in less than 20 seconds.

“From IMConferencing’s inception, our primary goal has been to make it the easiest-touse, most intuitive web conferencing product available,” said Ted Heieck, IMC product manager for LiveOffice Corp. “Through exhaustive focus group research and extensive beta testing, IMC 2.0 promises to be the most user friendly and practical web conferencing solution available and ensures that LiveOffice will lead the way in transforming how people communicate in and out of the office.”

Recognized by Research Firm Gartner
Gartner’s recently released 2004 Magic Quadrant Report identified visionaries in the web conferencing industry and recognized LiveOffice as an industry player. The report also called out LiveOffice as representing “some of the strategies that vendors are using to break out of the pack of over 150″ web conferencing vendors.

Product Availability
This integration is part of numerous enhancements LiveOffice has made to IMConferencing 2.0, which will be publicly released in July 2004.

SIA Technology Management Conference
LiveOffice is demonstrating IMC and AdvisorMail (www.advisormail.net) in booth #1722 at the SIA Technology Management Conference taking place today through Thursday at the Hilton New York in New York City.

DES MOINES, Iowa—April 27, 2004—Lighthouse Communications, Inc., a Midwest leader in high-performance data communications and value-added services, today announced the completion of its acquisition of Focal Solutions, LLC, a Phoenix area firm specializing in Microsoft Business Solutions and managed services for small to mid-sized businesses. The combined company will operate under the name of LightEdge Solutions, Inc., which better reflects the company’s mission of embracing technology leadership and providing best-in-class products, services and support.

Focal Solutions serves a customer base of small to mid-sized businesses in the greater Phoenix area, with its main office located in Scottsdale, Ariz. The acquisition combines Lighthouse’s data communications and value-added services with Focal’s business application outsourcing and managed IT services. Together, the emerging company is poised to take advantage of a new Service-on-DemandSM business model under which the company will offer fully-managed, end-to-end services including voice and data, Microsoft business applications and data center hosting services.

“Focal is the first acquisition in our strategy to grow the business because there is synergy between the capabilities and offerings of the two companies,” said Jim Masterson, president and chief executive officer of LightEdge Solutions. “At Lighthouse, we’ve built a high-speed, highly secure and high Quality of Service backbone network connecting IP points of presence in Des Moines, Omaha, Kansas City, Minneapolis, and Eastern Iowa markets. Expanding that network with Focal’s business and managed services will enable us to provide businesses with a more comprehensive managed services model in all of our existing Midwest markets as well as in the greater Phoenix area. Our business customers are technologically sophisticated and we’re seeing increased customer demand for the types of value-added offerings within our Service-on-Demand model.”

LightEdge’s Service-on-Demand strategy will enable businesses to acquire the level of network, business application and hosting services that they need, so they can focus on their core business, gain competitive advantage and scale for growth. With Service-on-Demand, businesses can secure their high-bandwidth connection from LightEdge and layer on any IT services, such as applications, security and monitoring. Rather than investing large amounts of capital on hardware and infrastructure, businesses can secure affordable monthly service from LightEdge.

All employees from both companies were retained. Co-founders Steve Jorgensen and Jason Studsrud of Focal Solutions will continue on with LightEdge Solutions as senior vice president of the Southwest region and senior vice president of Midwest operations respectively.

About LightEdge Solutions
LightEdge Solutions® empowers businesses to be more productive, mobile and effective with managed voice and data services delivered through a multi-homed, Cisco Powered Network data center environment. By out-tasking voice, data and IT services, small and medium sized businesses are able to realize unparalleled scalability and reliability with a lower total cost of ownership and reduced administration. For more information about services available for your business, visit LightEdge’s web site at www.lightedge.com.

LightEdge Solutions® and the LightEdge Solutions logo, and Scale-on-Demand™ are trademarks, registered trademarks, or service marks of LightEdge Solutions, Inc. EdgeBCC™ and the EdgeBCC logo are trademarks, registered trademarks, or service marks of the Edge Business Continuity Center. All other brands or products are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective holders.

NAPLES, Fla., April 13, 2004 - Today at the NRS 19th Annual Spring Compliance Conference, LiveOffice Corporation (www.liveoffice.com), the leading provider of web sites, compliance systems and collaborative applications and National Regulatory Services (NRS, www.nrs-inc.com), a division of Thomson Media, and the top, national compliance consulting firm, announced a partnership that will help financial services firms better meet SEC, NASD and NYSE regulations regarding the monitoring and storage of electronic communications.

LiveOffice and NRS have formed a unique partnership that will make a valuable bundling of advanced technology and regulatory compliance expertise available to financial services organizations. The resulting products and services will help companies, including investment advisory firms and broker-dealers, quickly respond to the stringent and ever-changing regulatory requirements surrounding electronic communications.

To help financial firms identify and isolate non-compliant electronic communications, NRS has created a proprietary list of more than 1,000 potentially problematic words and phrases that financial organizations can use to automatically screen their representatives’ emails and instant messages. As part of the partnership, LiveOffice will offer the NRS eSupervisor Premium Lexicon as a recommended add-on to its AdvisorMail system, the leading solution for automated email and instant message monitoring, archival and retrieval.

NRS will also offer AdvisorMail clients access to its expert broker-dealer and investment adviser consulting services, allowing compliance personnel to work hand-in-hand with knowledgeable consultants to custom tailor the NRS eSupervisor Premium Lexicon to meet and exceed their organization’s specific needs.

“Financial services companies nationwide have come to rely on LiveOffice and NRS for help in meeting the strict compliance guidelines set forth by organizations like the SEC and NASD,” said Steve Uhring, vice president of sales and marketing for LiveOffice Corp. “In evaluating partnership opportunities, NRS’ consulting expertise and in-depth understanding of the current and future industry regulations proved to be the best fit for our customers and our company.”

In addition, LiveOffice will create a private-labeled version of AdvisorMail for exclusive distribution to NRS’ large customer base. This specialized branding will enable NRS to expand its compliance service offering, while reinforcing its outstanding reputation as the premier provider of regulatory compliance services.

“Our daily interactions with the nation’s leading financial services institutions and professionals have demonstrated an overwhelming need for this type of integrated supervisory system for electronic communications,” said Jon Higgins, executive vice president and chief operating officer for NRS. “Partnering with LiveOffice will enable us to provide the most effective and affordable electronic communications surveillance solution available today.”

LiveOffice will demonstrate AdvisorMail at the NRS 19th Annual Spring Compliance Conference taking place today through Friday at the Hyatt Regency Coconut Point Resort & Spa in Naples, Fla.

TORRANCE, Calif., April 5, 2004 - LiveOffice Corporation (www.liveoffice.com), the leading provider of web sites, compliance systems and collaborative applications, today announced that it has been named the official web site provider for the LA Harbor International Film Festival (LAHIFF) and unveiled the event’s new web site at www.laharborfilmfest.com.

Mirroring the event’s mission to “create a cinematic bridge between the people of the region and the people of the world,” the site’s thematic composition closely resembles artwork created by renowned local painter Tom Phillips and featured on the LAHIFF’s official poster. Visitors to www.laharborfilmfest.com will find information about the festival, details on featured films, programming and times, ticket sales as well as volunteer opportunities. Festival-goers will also have the ability to obtain maps of the two venues where films will be shown.

“The purpose of the LA Harbor International Film Festival is to showcase film and video that reflects the Los Angeles harbor area located in San Pedro and all that it embraces,” said Stephanie Mardesich, festival director and co-founder. “The superior design of our new web site captures this spirit and provides a comprehensive online resource that festival attendees can depend on for up-to-date information before, during and after this inaugural event.”

“We are proud to lend our creative talent and web development expertise to a worthwhile event like the LA Harbor International Film Festival,” said Brian Boarts, senior account manager for LiveOffice Corp. “The Festival’s web site is a great online resource for Angelenos wanting to gather and celebrate the rich cinematic culture of the Harbor area.”

The LAHIFF, which takes place April 30 through May 2, is a non-competitive, nonjuried festival with programming by invitation and referral to be announced.

For more information about the LAHIFF, please visit the event’s official web site at www.laharborfilmfest.com or call 310-519-0756.


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