ROSEBUD GOES WIRELESS!

PC-Based Intelligent Agent Connects CompuServe Members' PCs to Alphanumeric
Pagers

COLUMBUS, Ohio, Feb. 2, 1996 -- CompuServe Incorporated and Magee
Enterprises, Inc. announced today a version of Rosebud, Magee's smart
agent software, that provides support for alphanumeric paging devices. Now
members of the CompuServe Information Service can use Rosebud to filter
and retrieve news, financial, sports, entertainment, weather and e-mail
information and have it delivered to their alphanumeric pagers.

Based on keywords and user-selected criteria, Rosebud logs onto CompuServe
at pre-determined intervals, scans news sources and downloads the
information to the PC for viewing there. With the pager module, Rosebud
can then forward critical information to the pager.

The program includes a "red-flag" feature which monitors user-defined
events, such as the price of a stock changing by 10 percent in one hour,
and alerts the member to this event. With the new pager module, Rosebud
will send the alert to a wireless device, keeping members informed of
critical stock market events, changing weather, or important corporate
announcements.

"Rosebud is proving to be an excellent tool for CompuServe members who want
to track, and potentially forward, emerging information from their PC,"
said Gary Yeauger, CompuServe senior product manager of Communications
Services. "It is a nice complement to our service. With the addition of
new paging services we will release shortly, our members will have a
variety of high quality options to meet their needs."

The Rosebud announcement is the fruit of CompuServe's development
partnership program, designed to provide support and programming tools to
third-party organizations that develop products to enhance members' use of
the information service. The Rosebud product is one part of CompuServe's
total wireless communication plan, Yeauger said.

"Later this quarter we will release the first wireless interface products
based on our host computers in Columbus, Ohio," Yeauger explained. "Where
Rosebud forwards information gathered at the PC, our products will filter
and forward information directly from our host to the pager, regardless of
whether the member's PC is even turned on.

"These host-based and PC-based paging options will give our members the
freedom to choose the solution that best meets their needs," Yeauger said,
"while other online services offer no paging interface at all."

Rosebud requires Windows 3.1 or better, is Windows NT, Windows 95 and OS/2
Warp compatible, and is Winsock compliant. The pager module requires
Rosebud Version 1.02 or later.

Rosebud can be purchased with or without the paging module. Rosebud is
available directly from Magee for an introductory price of $39.95 by
calling 800/662-4330 or 770/446-6611. The paging module costs $25.00. A
30-day evaluation version of the program is available to download from
CompuServe via the Windows Users Forum area (GO WINUSER), the PC Vendor
Forum (GO PCVENA) and the Investors Forum (GO INVFORUM). To purchase the
program online, or for more information, GO ROSEBUD.

Founded in 1983, Magee Enterprises, Inc. develops and markets PC and
network utilities including Automenu, Automenu for Networks, Network H.Q.,
Automenu for Kids and Treeview. PakStar USA, a division of Magee
Enterprises, provides diskette duplication, CD-ROM replication, packaging
and fulfillment services for software developers, Fortune 1000 companies
and government agencies.

CompuServe is an H&R Block company.

Founded in 1955, H&R Block is a diversified services company and the
world's leader in tax preparation and online information services. H&R
Block Tax Services handled almost one in every seven returns filed with
the Internal Revenue Service in 1995, serving 17.1 million taxpayers in
more than 9,500 offices worldwide. CompuServe operates the most
comprehensive online network in the world, providing services to more than
900 corporate accounts and more than 4 million users in more than 140
countries.
 
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