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Touchtone Offers Free Wireless Modems through July 20, 2002

March 13, 2002 – Costa Mesa, CA – Touchtone Corporation, developer of the Wintouch eCRM suite for the IBM iSeries (AS/400) operating system, announced the Wintouch Wireless Web program. Now through July 20, 2002, Touchtone will provide free modems for field personnel with each server installation of Wintouch eCRM. Touchtone has partnered with Sprint PCS to offer American companies free Aircard 510 Modems by Sierra Wireless®, valued at $249.00 each.

The Wintouch Wireless Web solution is different from most CRM packages that send too large a data packet over the airwaves to communicate effectively in a wireless mode. Wintouch is I/O "economical" (Input/Output – sends small packets of data back and forth) and can operate effectively at 9.6k or 14.4k. This enables field personnel to take advantage of existing wireless technology to access and update an AS/400 database in real-time without having to invest in more expensive methods or to step backward on the technology scale to use remote synchronization.

Wintouch eCRM is accessible by any Java-enabled browser and can be fully customized and integrated within two to eight weeks. Wintouch utilizes a native DB2/400 database to provide quick, easy and seamless back-end enterprise and ERP integration. Web-based implementation eliminates client installation, saving time and cutting costs on upgrades. Powerful search capabilities allow virtually any combination of data fields to be selected for onetime or periodic Boolean searches.

Integrated mail and email expedite single or merge group template communications, automatically logging client contact and scheduling follow-up activities. Integrated 5250 terminal emulation provides quick access to enterprise "green screen" applications from Wintouch – in the office or in the field.

Wintouch also features flexible GUI customization enabling the enterprise, departments or end users to simply "drag and drop" fields for additional customization. Flexible design allows front-end database fields to be determined, grouped, organized, presented and named to meet the unique needs of each enterprise. Language localization is a simple "table entry" process, not a programming process. Scalability enables virtually limitless customer and contact records, or database fields.

Wintouch is secure – all database information resides on the enterprise server, with ID and password transmission encrypted and required for access. No database records reside on the end user preventing unauthorized electronic copying of valuable customer data. Wintouch offers the unique ability to quickly link one "contact" to many "accounts" (i.e. a consultant) without entering the contact information separately for each account. This same feature also enables an activity or sequence of activities to be scheduled for many account contacts from one entry.

About Sprint PCS

Monthly rates for Sprint PCS Total Digital ConnectionsSM Plans for Business begin at $59.99 for 700 hours on the Internet. Quick action can lock in this special rate for two or three years. Rates on other wireless web plans offering additional minutes and information on geographic reach of calling plans are available on Sprint's website www.SprintPCS.com.

About Touchtone Corporation

Touchtone Corporation has over ten years of profitable growth and service to mid- to large companies. In addition to Wintouch eCRM, Touchtone products include QuestView®, an AS/400 database tool, and ThinView®, a Web-to-host solution, which have become top products among many AS/400 clients. Touchtone customers include companies such as Porsche, Enterprise Rent-A-Car, Coca-Cola Enterprises, Toyota, Caterpillar, Chevron, EDS, and Toshiba. For additional information about Wintouch eCRM or other Touchtone products, please visit Wintouch.com, TouchtoneCorp.com or call (714) 755-2810.

Wintouch, QuestView and ThinView are registered trademarks of Touchtone Corporation. All other brand or product names are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective companies and all rights are reserved.

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