FOR RELEASE: JUNE 15
				PRESS RELEASE NEW PRODUCT ANNOUNCEMENT  
				For information contact: Tom Cross or Vicki Gordon
				Press: 303-440-7313 FAX 442-2616


NETTALK-ExecutiveTM 

The Manager's Management Action Tool

	

	BOULDER, Colorado.  Cross International announces NETTALK-Executive.TM 
"Our goal at Cross International is to solve real-time communications problems with split-second software management tools," noted Tom Cross - Chairman.  "The next featureset we have added deals with management of personal and group action-items and LAN company calendar communications," he added.  NETTALK-EXECUTIVE aims to speed the status of and direct personal and team action items.  Managers can assign tasks immediately, determine the status of others, and change actions as demanded in a 24-hour global business while coordinating calendars and work schedules company-wide.  NETTALK-EXECUTIVE is for Windows-only and will be available for shipment July 1, 1994. 

COMPANY CALENDAR Featureset
We found in our research that while there are many so-called organizers and personal appointment schedulers, they are fraught with the double-data-entry problem.  As most people do not take their PC's along with them into meetings with customers or staff, they are forced to write an appointment into their "paper calendar" (i.e., DayTimer(R) or DayRunner(R), etc.), then enter that appointment again in their PC calendar when they go back to the office.  Now while this is not an insurmountable task, most people find this tedious and a pain.  Moreover, from our years of research and writing 12 books on electronic communications we have found the best way to schedule people is to ask them nicely via electronic mail.  This way it is more permissive than invasive.  People prefer to be asked rather than invaded upon.  
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In addition, most people do not put everything in their personal calendar like golf, doctor's appointments, and social events.  They want privacy for their personal affairs.  The focus of the NETTALK-EXECUTIVE calendar is to provide a company-wide glimpse at activities affecting everyone in the organization ranging from "when is the company picnic" to "when do we ship the booth to the exhibit hall" to "flu shots will be given in the cafeteria at noon."  "The NETTALK-EXECUTIVE calendar is a company-wide communications information tool," Cross added.  Most company need better communication amongst all the staff.  All to often you find, "I thought you were going to do that?" Cross noted.  "These all-to-often mis-communications cause the biggest headaches and require expensive rushed-order shipments and crisis mode operations to resolve the simplest of problems.  When you look at project management, they succeed or fail because people working together communicate or not.  "The bricks are to arrive on Thursday, has anyone ordered the cement?  Whether a workgroup, team, workgroup or small business, our customers have told us that they want a LAN calendar-at-a-glance," Cross indicated.  

ACTION-MANAGER Featureset
In a practical sense, managers need to manage more effectively and efficiently.  "Most managers especially workgroup or small business owners don't have the tools to in a split-second track anything much less who's doing what," according to Vicki Gordon of Cross.  "With NETTALK-EXECUTIVE, Tom can look across the network to see what my action list is and I can see his.   This way we are working more closely together and focused as a management team," she added, "One does not have to wonder whats going on."  With the action-manager in NETTALK-EXECUTIVE, there will be a split screen of lists of actions and a list of current status.  In this way, action-items don't get lost or confused or duplicated.  "Staff and management can operate more closely together because they are communicating, not just more information, but more accurately," Cross added.  

The focus of the NETTALK product line will be to add communications-intense features that solve problems not addressed to this point.  "People don't compute, they communicate," Cross added.  "The operative word in personal computer is personal.
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The PC is a highly personal communications tool.  To this point, it has been mainly used for the management of personal files.  With LANs, people linked outward to others via email.  If multi-media is to be truly successful, it will create tools that allow people to be much more expressive in their own style of communications.  NETTALK is a family of tools that aid personal time management and communications.

NETTALK-EXECUTIVE for Windows will include all the features of NETTALK Version 3.0 or later and NETTALK+PLUS Version 3.0 or later which include telephone call messaging, popup yellow stickypads, onlan chatting, call logging with new telephone dialer, telephone directory, in/out status box, and "if" messaging.  
				NETTALK-EXECUTIVE PRICING	for Windows	
		10 user version 		NETTALK+EXEC $299 per server  
		25 user version 		NETTALK+EXEC $399 per server 
		Unlimited user version 	NETTALK+EXEC $599 per server 

Technical Description:
NETTALK-EXECUTIVE is a Windows-ONLY application for use on all Novell-Netware and NetBios (Artisoft-Lantastic, Microsoft-Workgroup for Windows, IBM-LanServer, Moses, CBIS-Desk-to-Desk, Moses-MosesAll, Invisible-InvisibleNet, Performance Technology-PowerLAN, DEC-Pathworks) personal computer networks.  

Company Background:

Cross International Corporation was formed to design, develop and market LAN communications software solutions.  Cross products now include NETTALK - LAN messaging software, FlyBy - the world's first network screen saver, and CROSS+POINT - electronic mail software and CD-Link - CDROM sharing on Novell networks.  Prior to Cross International, Tom Cross was the founder of Cross Communications developer of CROSS CONNECT modem communications software, now marketed by Smith Micro Software, Inc. NETTALKTM, FlyByTM, CROSS+POINTTM, and CD-LINKTM are trademarks of Cross International Corporation. 


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