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ARLINGTON, Va. Ð May 15, 2000 Ð telezoo.com, the B2B telecommunications marketplace, and Network Computing Magazine, a CMP Media Inc. publication, announced today a strategic partnership designed to better facilitate the buying and selling of telecommunications products and services. Forging a co-branding relationship, both organizations will leverage each other's content using telezoo.com's facilitated e-commerce engine as a platform. Terms of the agreement were not disclosed.

"Our partnership with Network Computing further enhances the tremendous buyer and seller community we created," said Elias Shams, president, CEO and Chief Zoo Keeper for telezoo.com. "As a great resource for everything IT, Network Computing adds to the breadth and depth of telezoo.com and in turn, we provide Network Computing with a commerce platform that complements their editorial content. As a former network manager, I recognize the tremendous value-add Network Computing provides in the buying process. We are very excited about the potential of this partnership."

telezoo.com's community includes over 5,000 buyers and 350 leading suppliers from over 110 countries. Network Computing's content provides additional information for buyers to make informed purchasing decisions. For sellers, it delivers a subscriber base of over 220,000 readers. Currently, Network Computing's Web site, www.networkcomputing.com, receives over one million page views per month.

"Network Computing already delivers a strong community of buyers who are looking for unbiased product, service, and technology reviews," said Brad Shimmin, Network Computing's online editor. "But, together with telezoo.com's worldwide community of telecommunications solution providers, we can now help our readers gain access to multiple vendors while easily viewing side-by-side solution comparisons. Readers can view a product review on Network Computing and then go directly to telezoo.com, compare it with other similar product categories, and send an order directly to the supplier of that product (RFQ Ð Request For Quote)."

telezoo.com and Network Computing will benefit from serving a larger number of qualified industry buyers. Beginning next month, both companies will share each other's content. Network Computing will include product and service search and comparison features, the RFP builder and preview feature and vendor sign-up capabilities from telezoo.com.

From Network Computing, the telezoo.com marketplace will feature product and service reviews attached to supplier product and service listings. The magazine's interactive report card will be displayed within the select features and product reviews. Additionally, telezoo will receive bi-weekly feeds of links to Network Computing's articles and editorials.

"Network Computing is looking forward to building a strong relationship with telezoo.com," said Fritz Nelson, publisher of Network Computing. "It signifies the combination of content and service that is most definitely needed in today's IT community. Combining unbiased product reviews with the ability to act upon them in the same forum is forefront in the minds of both our readers and the telezoo.com audience".

Founded in 1997, telezoo.com, the Internet's leading business-to-business marketplace for telecommunications buyers and suppliers, provides a virtual one-stop shop for the evolving telecommunications needs of organizations. Through a comprehensive standardized database, telezoo.com empowers buyers to make informed purchasing decisions by providing an unbiased e-commerce platform that easily navigates and compares complex telecommunications choices to deliver targeted products, services and solutions. telezoo.com was recently named as one of 50 companies to watch in 2000 by digitalsouth Magazine. The company is headquartered in Arlington, Va. and can be reached at www.telezoo.com.

Network Computing, published by CMP Media, Manhasset, N.Y., is the only networking publication providing in-depth, comprehensive, technology and service reviews from a real-world perspective to 220,000 IT ProfessionalsÐThe Technology ExpertsÐbiweekly. In addition, the publication consistently has the largest average-issue audience among all networking publications, according to Simmons and IntelliQuest. Most recently, Network Computing was named a 1999 Neal Award Finalist.

CMP Media Inc. (http://www.cmp.com), a subsidiary of United News & Media plc (Nasdaq: UNEWY), is the leading high-tech media company providing essential information and marketing services to the entire technology spectrumÐthe builders, sellers and users of worldwide. With its portfolio of newspapers, magazines, custom publishing, Internet products, research, consulting and conferences, CMP is uniquely positioned to offer marketers comprehensive, integrated solutions tailored to meet their individual needs. Online editions of the company's print publications, along with products and services created exclusively for the Internet, can be found on CMPnet at http://www.CMPnet.com.