PageGate is nominated for the 2000 Shareware Industry Awards

Hanover, MA - May 10, 2000 - NotePage, Inc. an international wireless messaging software company, announced today that PageGate has been nominated for the Best Vertical Market Application for the year 2000 Shareware Industry Awards. The shareware industry awards are selected by a group of industry professionals that nominate and vote based on a programs merits. The award winners are announced July 15, at the annual Shareware Industry Conference.

PageGate is a high-end network paging gateway, that sends messages to pagers and digital phones through interfaces. Currently messages can be sent from any combination of the following four interfaces: e-mail, web, commandline/ASCII and GUI (graphical user interface). PageGate allows for corporations to take control of their communication needs and build a solution to meet their needs. Free evaluation versions of PageGate are available from http://www.notepage.net/pagegate.htm.

NotePage is the industry leader for wireless messaging software and alphanumeric paging solutions. Additional information on NotePage, Inc's software solutions solutions can be found at http://www.notepage.net/software.htm .

# # #

About NotePage NotePage, Inc. is a Hanover, Massachusetts company specializing in wireless messaging software. In addition to PageGate, they market (1) NotePager Net, a full-featured network paging program that allows an entire network to send messages through a single, centralized paging server, (2) NotePager 32, an easy-to-use standalone alphanumeric paging dispatch program that allows text messages to be sent to single or multiple alphanumeric paging devices, (3) NotePager, the Windows 3.x version of NotePager 32, and (4) WebGate, an Internet paging program that creates a paging gateway from the Internet to paging devices, allowing messages to be sent from e-mail and personal web pages.