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Lycos Launches Lycos Phone, Internet's First Free VOIP Integrated Communication Platform, Combining IM, Video Chat, Real-Time Video On Demand And MP3 Player

Lycos Teams with Globe7, All-In-One Soft Phone, Converting Laptop/Desktop into Second Telephone

WALTHAM, Mass. - March 27, 2006 - Lycos, Inc. (www.lycos.com), a leading media destination for creators and consumers of quality content, today announced the launch of Lycos Phone, the internet's first-ever VoIP softphone application to combine robust entertainment features, powered by Globe7.
Located at www.lycos.globe7.com, Lycos now offers a free downloadable white label VoIP platform, in partnership with Globe7, fulfilling users' communication and entertainment needs by converting their laptops and desktops into second phones. With Lycos Phone, users can make free calls from PC to PC. They can also make free PC to PC video calls and receive unlimited free incoming calls from any landline or mobile phone, from around the world. Users also receive 100 free minutes of PC to landline and PC to mobile phone calls, and can earn additional free minutes through various promotional offers with Lycos Phone.

Bank Of America Investment Unlike Skype and other VoIP services, Lycos in partnership with Globe7 is the first to introduce a VoIP system bringing full multimedia support for music and video on demand for both professional and independent content. The Lycos Phone platform provides free video on demand access to more than 300 movie trailers, business news, world sports and more, allowing users to search the web while chatting with buddies. Additionally, unlike Skype and Yahoo, Lycos Phone offers a free U.S. phone number, free fax and free voicemail to email.

(AXcess News) Houston, Protocol (VoIP) market in launching its own brand of Internet telphone service called Lycos Phone, taking on eBay's Skype and Yahoo!, which just entered the U.S. VoIP market last week. Lycos' beta Internet phone service provides users free service if connecting to another Lycos Phone user. It also permits users to make international calls to mobile or landsets for a charge per minute. But one feature that is quite attractive is Lycos Phone will provide a user with a phone number. Gold members receive their own US phone number and a 10% discount off international calls.

Investment Opportunity "This partnership with Globe7 allows Lycos to team with a best-of-breed global platform, leveraging Globe7's real-time communications infrastructure to provide other innovative services like Internet Protocol television," said Alfred Tolle, CEO of Lycos, Inc. "We are in a very unique position to now provide this audio and video distribution platform to our millions of independent content creators throughout the Lycos Network."

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Banc Of America Investment "Globe7 was built from the ground up as a standards-based Voice-over-IP system with a wide array of voice call features such as voice mail, and integration with the existing U.S. and International telephone networks," Tolle added. "This, in combination with our upcoming Lycos HanMail system, based on Daum's highly successful HanMail product in Korea, will allow Lycos to leap-frog all existing communications offerings available today."

"We have been extremely impressed with the accuracy, throughput, ease of deployment and flexibility of the combined Bizanga and Cloudmark solution, " said Stéphane Charbonneau, development director, Lycos. "We were able to deploy Intelligent Message Processor into the Lycos Europe structure within half a day and have been able to process antispam and antivirus filtering for all Lycos traffic in Europe using only one machine. Moreover, we were impressed by the solution's accuracy to block fraud as well as spam with low false positives in eight languages."

Banking Investment "We are very excited to be partnering with Lycos on this white label solution of our Globe7 free downloadable soft phone application," said Venkat Meenavalli, CEO of Globe7. "We chose to team with Lycos to introduce our application to the U.S. audience because of Lycos' strong brand recognition as well as their strong focus on content and their rich heritage in search."

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Investment Solution Strategic Currently, Globe7 supports Windows 2000 and XP. Future enhancements will support Linux, Mac OS, Palm OS and Pocket PC.

Alfred Tolle, CEO of Lycos, said, "We are in a very unique position to now provide this audio and video distribution platform to our millions of independent content creators throughout the Lycos Network."

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Lycos, Inc. (www.lycos.com) is a wholly owned subsidiary of Daum Communications Corp., a leading Internet portal and e-commerce destination in Korea with a growing presence throughout the Asian markets. Lycos, Inc. creates and operates search, community and technology lifestyle sites including Lycos.com, Hotbot.com, Wired.com, Tripod.com, Angelfire.com and Quote.com. Other Lycos products and sites include Lycos Mail, Gamesville and GetRelevant. Lycos was acquired by Korean Daum Communications Corp. in October 2004 and has its U.S. headquarters in Waltham, Massachusetts. Daum Communications Corp. is traded on the KOSDAQ: 035720, www.daum.net.

Bank Investment About Globe7
Globe7 is a free downloadable soft phone integrated with Voice, Video, IM, MP3 player and real time video streaming, powered by online advertising. Globe7 powers 20 million simultaneous sessions for voice, video, IM and real-time video streaming.

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