2000 Shareware Industry Awards Recognizes NotePager Net as 2000 award nominee for Best Overall Application!

Hanover, MA - May 10, 2000 - The Shareware Industry Awards Foundation announced today that NotePager Net has been nominated for Best Overall Application for the year 2000. 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. This years conference will take place in Tampa, Florida. Additional information on the 2000 Shareware Industry Conference and awards can be found at http://www.sic.org.

NotePager Net is an easy to use network paging software that allows users on a network to share a common modem, phone line and database to send text messages to pagers and digital phones. Features include group paging, preprogrammed messages, scheduled paging, repeating messages along with a myriad of others. NotePager Net is marketed with the shareware concept in mind, users are able to download a free functional evaluation version and try-it prior to purchasing. Its scalable design, easy to use interface and modularity make NotePager Net a popular choice.

NotePage is an industry leader in wireless messaging software, evaluation copies and additional information on NotePage, Inc's alphanumeric paging and wireless messaging solutions can be found at http://www.notepage.net/software.htm .

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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.