941241SUNNCOMMPHOENIXBWJune 4, 20022002-06-04T13:08:00<P CLASS="SUBHEADING">Business Editors</P><P CLASS="SUBHEADING2">PHOENIX--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 4, 2002--</P><P CLASS="BODY"/><P CLASS="BODY"> Jacobs joins Adobe, CenterSpan and Microsoft in Appearance before
the U.S. House of Representatives Subcommittee on the Courts, the
Internet, and Intellectual Property for Oversight hearing on "DRM:
The Consumer Benefits of Today's Digital Rights Management Solutions"</P><P CLASS="BODY"/><P CLASS="BODY">SunnComm Inc. (OTC: SUNX) President and Chief Executive Officer
Peter H. Jacobs and executives from Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT), Adobe
(NASDAQ: ADBE) and CenterSpan (NASDAQ: CSCC) will jointly appear
before the U.S. House Subcommittee on the Courts, the Internet, and
Intellectual Property Wednesday for its Oversight hearing on "DRM: The
Consumer Benefits of Today's Digital Rights Management Solutions."</P><P CLASS="BODY">The hearing, which will begin at 2 p.m. Eastern Standard Time on
Wednesday, June 5 at the Rayburn House Office Building in Washington
can be heard live over the Web by logging on to
www.house.gov/judiciary/schedule.htm and clicking on the "Click Here
for Live Audio" link. The hearing may also be available on either
CSPAN 2 or CSPAN 3.</P><P CLASS="BODY">Jacobs is expected to introduce creative solutions to Congress as
it debates how to solve the escalating battle between the recording
industry and the rights of individual consumers. He will be joined in
Washington by William H. Whitmore, SunnComm chief operating officer.</P><P CLASS="BODY"/><P CLASS="SUBHEADING2">About SunnComm Inc.</P><P CLASS="BODY"/><P CLASS="BODY">SunnComm Inc. is a leader in digital content enhancement and
security technology for optical media with its MediaCloQ and CD3 suite
of products. SunnComm's copy-protection technology was commercially
released by Music City records in 2001 and became America's first
copy-protected audio CD.</P><P CLASS="BODY">SunX, Digital Content Cloaking technology, DC2, MediaCloQ,
PromoPlay and SunnComm are registered and/or trademarks of SunnComm
Inc. in the United States and/or other countries. The names of actual
companies and products mentioned herein may be the trademarks of their
respective owners.</P><P CLASS="BODY">For more detailed information about the company, its vision or
philosophy, personnel, partners, and customers, please visit the
company's Web site at http://www.sunncomm.com.</P><P CLASS="BODY"/><P CLASS="BODY">Statements contained in this release, which are not historical
facts, may be considered "forward-looking statements" under the
Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Forward-looking
statements are based on current expectations and the current economic
environment.</P><P CLASS="BODY">We caution the reader that such forward-looking statements are not
guarantees of future performance. Unknown risk, uncertainties as well
as other uncontrollable or unknown factors could cause actual results
to materially differ from the results, performance, or expectations
expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements.</P><P CLASS="BODY"/><PRE CLASS="BODY"> CONTACT: SunnComm Inc., Phoenix
Investor Relations Center, 602/267-7500
Fax: 602/267-7400
investor@sunncomm.com
press@sunncomm.com (Journalists only, please)</PRE>941059Man Securities; Microsoft Corp.; Tyco International Ltd.; Intel Corp.;CHICAGOIllinoisPRNJune 42002-06-04T12:29:52<P CLASS="SUBHEADING2">-- WITH PHOTO -- TO BUSINESS EDITOR:</P><P CLASS="BODY">CHICAGO, June 4 /PRNewswire/ -- Man Securities issues the following Market
News Update and new PriceWatch Alerts for key stocks at 11:47 AM EDT.</P><P CLASS="BODY">(Photo: http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20020214/MANSECLOGO )</P><P CLASS="SUBHEADING2">New PriceWatch Alerts for MSFT, TYC, and INTC ...</P><P CLASS="BODY">PRICEWATCH ALERTS - HIGH RETURN COVERED CALL OPTIONS
-- Microsoft Corp. (Nasdaq: MSFT)
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http://www.poweropt.com/pwa .</P><P CLASS="SUBHEADING2">MARKET NEWS UPDATE</P><P CLASS="BODY">Sales at the nation's retail chain stores remained weak in the final week
of May. The BTM-UBS Warburg Chain Store Sales Index rose 0.1 percent in the
final week compared with the previous week. Sales were up 3.2 percent year-
over-year. The industry will report on Thursday same-store sales for the month
of May. It is currently expected that the group will show about 2.5 percent
year-over-year increase. Redbook said sales through the fourth week of May
were down 0.4 percent from April, but up 1.8 percent over May 2001.</P><P CLASS="BODY">The Retail Holders Trust (Amex: RTH) is proving to be laggard in a soft
market today. Earlier in the year the retail grouping was one of the stronger
sectors benefiting from the resiliency of the consumer. Currently sitting at
session low, the Exchange Traded Fund has moved below chart congestion and
potential support in the 92-area. The 10-week moving average has just crossed
below the 20-week moving average this past week, a technically bearish event.</P><P CLASS="BODY">* Be prepared for the investing week ahead with Bernie Schaeffer's FREE
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http://www.schaeffersresearch.com/redirect.asp?CODE=GJ01A3&PAGE=1</P><P CLASS="SUBHEADING2">FUTURES WATCH</P><P CLASS="BODY">There's been some small short covering rallies in the futures markets
today but the markets are still very hard pressed to find the support needed
for any type of extended rally. The S&P futures need to make new highs above
104200 in order to see some serious short covering in the market. I'm looking
for the NASDAQ futures to start to gain on the S&P futures in order to give me
a clue of any impending rally. The futures markets remain under pressure.</P><P CLASS="BODY">*For futures updates from Harry Michas throughout the day see
www.manmarketmonitor.com/mu.html .</P><P CLASS="BODY">Man Financial Inc is one of the world's major futures and options brokers
and has been recognized as a leading option order execution firm for
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only provider of a completely integrated Online Supplier Relationship
Management (SRM) system for strategic sourcing, announced today that
FMC Technologies, Inc. (NYSE:FTI) has selected Entomo SmartHub/SRM in
an effort to cut direct materials procurement costs and improve
inventory management worldwide.</P><P CLASS="BODY">"Streamlining purchasing and inventory management processes are
key objectives for us, and we expect the Entomo system to make a
significant impact toward those goals," said Seth Sonnier, Subsea
Purchasing Manager for the Houston Operation. "We are very
enthusiastic about working with them."</P><P CLASS="BODY">Entomo SmartHub/SRM provides a tool that will allow FMC
Technologies to aggregate the data from its various plants' enterprise
systems, including those of SAP AG (NYSE:SAP), Microsoft
(Nasdaq:MSFT), Frontstep (Nasdaq:FSTP), and SSA Global Technologies.
The pilot implementation will be at FMC Energy Systems' facility in
Houston, Texas.</P><P CLASS="BODY">FMC Technologies provides mission-critical technology solutions
for the energy, food processing and air transportation industries. The
Company designs, manufactures and services technologically
sophisticated systems and products for its customers through its
Energy Systems, FoodTech and Airport Systems businesses. FMC
Technologies has 35 manufacturing facilities in 16 countries.</P><P CLASS="BODY">"FMC Technologies is an outstanding example of a global company
that understands the value of implementing an Online SRM system," said
Alan M. Davis, President and CEO of Entomo. "We look forward to
working with FMC Technologies worldwide and delivering rapid results
that have significant business impact."</P><P CLASS="BODY"/><P CLASS="SUBHEADING2">About Entomo, Inc.</P><P CLASS="BODY"/><P CLASS="BODY">Entomo, Inc. offers Online SRM and strategic sourcing applications
that link manufacturers with their direct materials supply chain. Its
Web-based application Entomo SmartHub/SRM delivers transaction
automation, online collaboration, supply chain event management,
supplier performance measurement, and advanced analytics. Additional
capabilities support aggregation of inventory and purchasing data from
multiple sites -- delivering cross-plant visibility, consolidated
sourcing, centralized commodity management, and inventory sharing.</P><P CLASS="BODY">Entomo's global customers include AMETEK Aerospace and Power
Instruments, FMC Technologies, NACCO Materials Handling Group, Atlas
Copco Wagner, Wacker Siltronic, and Landscape Structures. These
customers benefit through reducing direct materials costs, decreasing
inventory levels, eliminating obsolescence, increasing manufacturing
uptime and improving order fulfillment.</P><P CLASS="BODY">For additional information, please visit http://www.entomo.com/ or
call 1.877.9.ENTOMO.</P><P CLASS="BODY"/><PRE CLASS="BODY"> CONTACT: Entomo, Inc.
Katherine White, 425/372-0580
k.white@entomo.com</PRE>940588BLACKBOARDWASHINGTONBWJune 4, 20022002-06-04T11:01:00<P CLASS="SUBHEADING">Business Editors/Hi-Tech Writers</P><P CLASS="BODY">WASHINGTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 4, 2002--Blackboard Inc., the
leading software infrastructure company for e-Education, today
announced that Michael Chasen, CEO and Co-Founder, will make a
presentation to the investment community on Tuesday, June 4, 2002 at
4:30 p.m. Eastern Time, at Deutsche Bank Securities 10th Annual Media
Conference held at The Pierre Hotel in New York City, New York.</P><P CLASS="BODY">Mr. Chasen will provide an overview of the post-secondary
e-Education industry, as well as a view of the company's position as a
leader in providing e-Education solutions. Mr. Chasen will also
provide detail of Blackboard's FY 2001 financial performance of $46.5
million in total revenues.</P><P CLASS="BODY">Parties interested in scheduling an individual briefing should
contact Michael J. Stanton at Blackboard at mstanton@blackboard.com or
202-463-4860 ext. 305.</P><P CLASS="BODY"/><P CLASS="SUBHEADING2">About Blackboard Inc.</P><P CLASS="BODY"/><P CLASS="BODY">Blackboard Inc. was founded to transform the Internet into a
powerful environment for teaching and learning. The company offers a
complete suite of enterprise software products and services that power
a total "e-Education Infrastructure" for schools, colleges,
universities and other education providers.</P><P CLASS="BODY">Blackboard solutions deliver the promise of the Internet for
online teaching and learning, campus communities, auxiliary services
and integration of Web-enabled student services and back office
systems.</P><P CLASS="BODY">Blackboard's Learning, Community Portal and Transaction Systems
are consistently ranked by industry analysts as the market share and
client satisfaction leaders for thousands of academic institutions and
a leading number of the Internet's most popular consumer education
sites.</P><P CLASS="BODY">The company is headquartered in Washington, D.C., with offices and
staff across North America, Europe and Asia. Please visit
www.blackboard.com for more information.
A privately-held company based in Washington, D.C., Blackboard
Inc. has raised more than $100 million in capital from top-tier
strategic, venture capital, and private equity investors. Blackboard
maintains close partnerships with its investors to fully leverage
their industry relationships, financial expertise, and strategic
guidance.</P><P CLASS="BODY">Blackboard strategic investors include AOL-Time Warner (NYSE:
AOL), Dell Computer Corporation (Nasdaq: DELL), Kaplan Ventures,
Microsoft Corporation (Nasdaq: MSFT), and Pearson Education.</P><P CLASS="BODY">Blackboard's financial investors include The Aurora Funds, The
Carlyle Group, Dain Rauscher, Edelson Technology Partners, Internet
Capital Group (Nasdaq: ICGE), Merrill Lynch (NYSE: ML), Morgan Keegan,
Novak Biddle and Oak Hill Capital Partners.</P><P CLASS="BODY"/><PRE CLASS="BODY"> CONTACT: Blackboard Inc., Washington
Michael J. Stanton, 202/463-4860 ext.305
mstanton@blackboard.com</PRE>940232Microsoft Corp.REDMONDWashingtonPRNJune 42002-06-04T10:00:17<P CLASS="SUBHEADING2">-- WITH PHOTO -- TO BUSINESS AND TECHNOLOGY EDITORS:</P><PRE CLASS="BODY"> Tool Provides Automatic Source Code Conversion From Java Language to C#
</PRE><P CLASS="BODY">REDMOND, Wash., June 4 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ --
Microsoft Corp. (Nasdaq: MSFT) today announced the delivery of the second beta
of the Java Language Conversion Assistant (JLCA), a tool for Java-language
developers that provides a smooth transition to building XML Web services on
the Microsoft(R) .NET Platform. Built on the world-leading ArtinSoft migration
technology, the JLCA automates the process of migrating language syntax and
library calls from existing Java-language source code into C# to bring about
the conversion.</P><P CLASS="BODY">(Photo: http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20000822/MSFTLOGO )</P><P CLASS="BODY">"Microsoft is committed to providing a path for developers to build XML
Web services in the programming language of their choice," said Tom Button,
vice president of the Developer Platform and Evangelism Division at Microsoft.
"With the beta 2 of the JLCA, Java-language developers will be able to
automatically convert more code to C#, enabling them to create scalable,
robust applications in a shorter time frame."</P><P CLASS="BODY">"The JLCA has been a powerful tool for our developers," said John Hogan,
vice president of engineering at Plumtree Software. "Plumtree is committed
to building .NET development tools and offering our customers the
scalability and reliability of a .NET portal. The JLCA will allow us to do
this while managing overall development costs."</P><P CLASS="BODY">The JLCA enhances productivity by enabling developers to take advantage of
existing investments in the Java language to target the .NET Framework. The
JLCA, which migrates most existing Java-language source code to C#, is
available for download today on the MSDN(R) Web site at
http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/downloads/jca/default.asp and will be a
feature in forthcoming versions of Visual Studio(R) .NET.</P><P CLASS="SUBHEADING2">About the .NET Framework</P><P CLASS="BODY">The Microsoft .NET Framework is a platform for building, deploying and
running XML Web services and applications. It provides a highly productive,
standards-based, multilanguage environment for integrating existing
investments with next-generation applications and services as well as the
agility to solve the challenges of deployment and operation of Internet-scale
applications. The .NET Framework consists of two main parts: the common
language runtime and a hierarchical set of unified class libraries, which
includes a next-generation Web application environment, ASP.NET; a loosely
coupled data access subsystem, ADO.NET; and an environment for building rich
Windows(R)-based applications, Windows Forms.</P><P CLASS="SUBHEADING2">About Microsoft</P><P CLASS="BODY">Founded in 1975, Microsoft is the worldwide leader in software, services
and Internet technologies for personal and business computing. The company
offers a wide range of products and services designed to empower people
through great software -- any time, any place and on any device.</P><P CLASS="BODY">NOTE: Microsoft, MSDN, Visual Studio and Windows are either registered
trademarks or trademarks of Microsoft Corp. in the United States and/or other
countries.</P><P CLASS="BODY">The names of actual companies and products mentioned herein may be the
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