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SightSpeed Brings Fun and Easy-to-Use Video Phone Software to Creative's Family of Web Cameras; Creative WebCam Live! Motion and Top-Rated Video Calling Service Now Available in Convenient Package

BERKELEY, Calif. -- SightSpeed Inc., the award-winning service that turns your PC into a video phone, today announced it will bundle SightSpeed's video calling service with Creative's entire lineup of web cameras. The first Creative webcam available with SightSpeed's video calling service is the recently announced WebCam Live! Motion, a stylish webcam that features smooth, quiet motorized pan-n-tilt motion with unmatched horizontal and vertical views, making it ideal for video calls, home security monitoring, multi-party video conferencing, or video e-mail. The Creative WebCam Live! Motion, with SightSpeed's video calling software, is now available at major retailers and www.us.creative.com for only US$149.99. The powerful combination of Creative's web cameras and SightSpeed's video calling service will enable consumers to see and hear family and friends anywhere in the world, right from their personal computers.

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"From business colleagues using video calls to save valuable travel dollars to U.S. soldiers keeping in touch with their families while overseas, web cameras are bringing a whole new dimension to communication over the Internet," said Lance Ohara, brand manager for North America at Creative. "Using the Live! Motion webcam with SightSpeed's integrated Video Mail and Multi-Party Video Calling is like having a personalized video phone sitting on top of your computer that lets friends, family, and colleagues communicate naturally -- just as if they were in the same room together."

SightSpeed will be pre-set to install from the Creative WebCam Live! Motion installation CD. Customers who purchase a Creative webcam will be offered a unique, free service plan designed exclusively for them, as well as valuable savings on SightSpeed's premium service plans.

"Creative is a global leader in consumer technology and is famous for making high-quality, innovative products available to consumers worldwide," said Brad Treat, founder of SightSpeed. "This collaboration cements SightSpeed's leadership position in providing the highest quality video calling experience to people all over the world. Without question, this announcement positions Creative and SightSpeed to take full advantage of the rapidly growing market opportunities in video communications."

SightSpeed is the only full-motion video service that works both on and between Macs and PCs, providing an unmatched visual communications experience to the broadest possible audience. SightSpeed's features include four-way, Multi-Party Video Calling, the first consumer-focused video conferencing service, and integrated Video Mail, which enables users to create and send video messages to their family and friends, anywhere in the world whether or not they are SightSpeed users. SightSpeed also offers text messaging and presence management capabilities so that you can see when your friends are online, busy, or away.

About SightSpeed, Inc.

Based in Berkeley, California, SightSpeed turns your PC or Mac into an easy-to-use video phone. SightSpeed is software that you download from the Internet or install from a CD that enables your PC or Macintosh to send and receive voice and video calls, video mail, and text messaging. Customers who have downloaded the SightSpeed client register for the SightSpeed Service plan that best fits their needs (including our free SightSpeed Basic plan), and then they can start making video calls to friends, family, and colleagues around the world. SightSpeed's software is easy to install and works with standard computers and broadband Internet connections such as DSL or cable models. It also has a 56K dial-up speed setting. SightSpeed's revolutionary human perception-based technology is patented and based on over seven years of research at Cornell University. For more information, visit http://www.sightspeed.com.

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SightSpeed Brings Fun and Easy-to-Use Video Phone Software to Creative's Family of Web Cameras; Creative WebCam Live! Motion and Top-Rated Video Calling Service Now Available in Convenient Package

Business Wire, Sept 15, 2005

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