Travelbreak.com and Everypath Collaborate to Deliver Wireless Access of Online Travel Services to Travelbreak.com Users

Business Editors/Technology & Travel Writers

NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 5, 2000--Travelbreak.com, one of the world's most comprehensive travel web sites, today announced nationwide availability of wireless access to its website, www.travelbreak.com, via the Palm.Net(TM) wireless service for Palm VII(TM) handheld computers, and through any ordinary voice and web-ready phone.

The wireless version of travelbreak was mobilized by Everypath(TM). Now auction users can bid, buy, or sell travel from the back of a taxi-cab or sitting on the beach.

On the new site, wireless customers can review travelbreak's travel auctions in real time; take advantage of last minute deals in over 150 travel-only categories; buy, bid and sell anything travel; do a keyword search or read the highlights of the "Destination of the Week". Travelbreak is a pioneer bringing online auctions to wireless devices.

Tudor Boloni, Executive Vice President of Business Development for travelbreak.com pursued travelbreak's wireless relationship with Everypath early on in travelbreak's development. This vision was fostered by the understanding that travelbreak's customers, those with the passion to explore new places and experience new worlds, are the early adopters of innovative services and products, such as online auctions and wireless devices. Travelbreak believed that in order to remain competitive and serve their users' needs, they would have to give them access to auctions and other travel deals at any time and in anyplace.

To download the travelbreak.com Web Clipping App (.pqa file) for the Palm VII platform, please visit the company's website at www.travelbreak.com, or the go to the Palm.net website at http://www.palm.net/apps and click on the Travel and Entertainment category.

As an Everypath customer, travelbreak.com was able to rapidly add a wireless deployment of its popular website. Santa Clara, CA-based Everypath, acting as an ASP (Internet application service provider) to web-based businesses, uses a unique combination of people and Patent-pending technology to convert existing web-based content so it can be accessed on ordinary voice phones and web-ready devices such as Palms, Blackberry pagers and "Smart" or "Wireless Web" telephones.

"By using Everypath, we have added real-time wireless access and voice-recognition access to our online marketplace and decreased our time to market," remarks Max Starkov, travelbreak.com CEO. "This application allows us to reach a much larger potential customer base, and offer them innovative and easy-to-use online travel services."

"Travelbreak.com's mobile site is the perfect opportunity to demonstrate how Everypath can dramatically increase a web business' reach, giving them an edge so they can reach out and serve their customers better," says Marcia Kadanoff, Everypath Chief Marketing Officer. "By adding wireless access and a voice recognition to the list of features they support, travelbreak can reach more customers, anytime and anywhere they happen to be."