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VTECHLINK and CABA Strengthen Partnership to Provide Convergence Info Services to CABA Members

VTECHLINK Weekly Email News Summary Service Becomes Key Part of Membership Benefits for CABA Members

Bethesda, Maryland, September 8, 1999 - Continental Automated Buildings Association [CABA], the premier industry association representing home and building automation industry in North America, and VTECHLINK, the 1-stop convergence industry information source, announced that they have strengthened their relationship originally announced in February of this year. Now, CABA's industry members will have ready access to VTECHLINK's weekly email news service.

VTECHLINK sends out, on a weekly basis, a summary mailing of carefully selected industry developments via email to thousands of industry professionals in the U.S. and over 50 countries around the globe. This service is limited to industry professionals involved in the convergence industry sectors. Now, as a result of this strengthened relationship, CABA members will be automatically pre-approved to sign up for this service.

In addition, CABA members will be able to sign up for the weekly news service directly from the CABA site through a special link set up in the members lounge area of the CABA Web site [www.caba.org]. CABA members can also sign up for this and all of the Premium services at the VTECHLINK Web site [www.vtechlink.com]

"We are always looking to bring value to our membership," said Ron Zimmer, Executive Director of CABA. "We believe that being able to sign up for the weekly news service from VTECHLINK will be an important addition to the package of benefits we offer to our members," he added.

"As the only service to exclusively focus on the rapidly changing convergence arena, we look forward to add CABA members to the thousands of industry professionals that we already serve," said P. S. (Vish) Vishwanath, Principal Director of VTECHLINK. "We offer the widest variety of carefully selected resources - such as access to live news feeds, Web search services, custom shopping and related information services, besides our core service of reports on industry developments and targeted links to all of the industry players."

This new privilege is in addition to the significant discounts, ranging up to 25% off the best rates, that is available to CABA members to the Premium services available from VTECHLINK. CABA is an active association that has established a track record of bringing the best services to its members to help them to be competitive in this marketplace. This new level of relationship with VTECHLINK is yet another demonstration of its on-going activities to provide the best Web-based 1-stop information services to its members.

VTECHLINK is a 1-stop site for all of the resources needed to stay up-to-date on the key developments in the multiple industries converging on the consumer electronic market place. "We have distilled the breadth of information available on the Web into useful intelligence through the disciplined focus of in-depth industry knowledge and experience - decades of real-life, hands-on, in-the-trenches kind of experience", said

Now, with this partnership with VTECHLINK, CABA's vast membership will have ready access to all of the resource they need to stay on top of industry developments and meet their industry research needs, quickly and easily. CABA members interested in signing up for the weekly news service can do so by going to

http://www.vtechlink.com/email_news_summary_registration.htm

CABA members interested in subscribing to Premium VTECHLINK services at the special discounted member rates can do so by going to [http://www.vtechlink.com/service_signup_form.htm].

About VTECHLINK

VTECHLINK provides over 4,000 targeted links to convergence industry stakeholders, clear reporting of industry developments, searchable archives with about 1,000 reports for convenient research, weekly email news summary, information on industry conferences, custom search engine for site search and Premium Gold services for in-depth research.

About CABA

CABA is a not for profit Industry Association with a mission to encourage the development, promotion and adoption of business opportunities relating to the automation of homes and buildings. The scope of this industry encompasses the use of advanced technologies for monitoring, control and communications in HVAC, lighting, communications, safety, security, elevators, and energy and resource management systems.

Additional information on CABA is available on the Web at http://www.caba.org

Additional information on VTECHLINK is available on the Web at http://www.vtechlink.com

Media contact: VTECHLINK - Nikia Mann, 301/263-9677, Fax: 301/263-0768, email: info@vtechlink.com; CABA - Julie Haywood, Communications Director, 613/990-7407, Fax: 613/991-9990, email: caba@caba.org