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dBenefits.com
dBenefits.com, St. Louis, MO

www.dBenefits.com - the benefits portal providing a private and secured infrastructure to employers, employee benefit providers and employees.

Mountain View, CA

Tellme charges 10 to 20 cents per call, a huge savings over the $5 to $10 a call corporations spend for live operators. It has a leg up on rivals like HeyAnita and Tellera, with more funding ($238 million) and a wider range of clients; it handles a million calls a day, up from a million a week just a year ago. Because the technology is expensive and constantly changing, phone carriers are unlikely to develop it in-house. CEO Mike McCue thinks one day computerized agents will replace the dial tone just as the dial tone replaced human operators. "When you pick up the phone," McCue says, "you're going to talk to Tellme."

Inplane Photonics, Inc. ("Inplane") aims to be the leader in integrating optical components on small, low-cost, versatile platforms. The availability of such components will enable the large-scale deployment of 10 and 40 Gbps systems throughout the telecom and datacom networks. This, in turn, will provide the impetus for new system architectures and operational innovation. The company is privately held and based in Central New Jersey. Our management's expertise comes from previous posts with global telecom players such as Nortel, JDSU, and Lucent. The members of our R&D team are industry renowned leaders in the field of designing and manufacturing advanced optical devices based on PLC (Planar Lightwave Circuit) technology. These highly integrated "systems-on-a-chip" have a small form factor, vastly reduced cost, and performance comparable to the best fiber-based solutions. The company's strong IP position on materials and processes enables it to market novel, highly integrated waveguide components, including waveguide amplifiers, utilizing standard silicon processing equipment.

Hotbar.com, Inc. is a New York City-based Internet company dedicated to customizing and maximizing the Web's interactive potential. Founded upon a vision to change the way people browse the Web, Hotbar.com has developed the Hotbar Smart Toolbar, a patent pending revolutionary add-on that brings the entire Internet to the browser. This Smart Toolbar categorizes over 2.5 million sites into over 2,000 major categories and over 200,000 sub-categories. While surfing, the toolbar's Smart Buttons relate to each particular site visited, offering even more information on the related topic.

Gigaton develops technology to continuously improve the Quality of Service (QoS) of speed, availability, accessibility and reliability of information and resources that are managed and moved across the Internet and other Networks. Our patent-pending technologies increase the transfer speed of any file (reduced latency), enhance reliability (intelligent replication), optimize the network (local and geographical load balancing), and improve scalability and integration (standards based).

X:drive. What's the Big Idea?
Recognizing the fast-approaching next generation Internet, X:drive Incorporated has created the ultimate file hosting and file management service. X:drive's Internet Hard Drive enables you to work with online files and folders as if they were stored on your internal hard drive. Sound straightforward? We think it is and so do our users.

Downloading the Future
X:drive's advanced, proprietary software connects people to the Internet simply and seamlessly. Its advanced functionality allows members to access their online files and folders anywhere, anytime from any web-connected computer. For partners, X:drive provides a compelling direct marketing and distribution channel to the desktop.

The Company at a Glance
Founded in early 1999, X:drive is the first company to transform the Internet into a virtual Hard Drive. According to PC Data, X:drive is the largest Hard Drive company in the world. X:drive is privately held and based in Santa Monica, California. Its venture partners include: Goldman Sachs, Ecompanies, Wit Capital, Alex Brown, and David Bohnett (founder of GeoCities). To find out more visit the X:drive Newsroom.

Chicago, IL

San Francisco, CA

About MarketTools
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COLO.COM^TM builds and maintains Neutral Central Offices (NCOs) for the deployment of next generation networks. The Neutral Central Office^TM colocation solution will enable carriers, CLECs, ISPs, and Internet-based businesses such as ASPs to gain rapid access to superior network and facility resources, allowing them to allocate staff and capital to focus on their core businesses and bring new products and services to market.

Sydney, AUSTRALIA

Next Generation Gaming is the world's first truly independent game design studio, creating highly visual and exciting games for the international gaming market.