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for Release February 22nd at 8:00 a.m. EST

Inktomi Co-Founder Purchases Additional Stock In Notify Technology Corporation

Inktomi Co-Founder Purchases Additional Stock In Notify Technology CorporationSan Jose, CA – February 22, 2000/PRNewswire/ -- Notify Technology Corporation (NASDAQ: NTFY), a leading provider of message notification products and services, today announced that David Brewer, co-founder of Inktomi Corporation, has exercised one warrant for 155,800 shares of common stock in Notify Technology Corporation, providing over one half a million dollars of additional capital. The latest milestone achieved was the booking of over $1,500,000 in product orders in one fiscal quarter.  Virtually all of these orders were for the Company’s Call Manager and Centrex Receptionist products although the first revenue from the Company’s new Visual Got Mail technology was recognized in the fiscal quarter ended December 31, 1999 and was generated from trial programs.  The Company reported a 373% increase in revenue in the fiscal quarter ended December 31, 1999 compared to the same period of the prior year. Brewer, an early investor in Notify Technology, became interested in making an additional investment after following the development of the company's Visual Got Mail technology that provides e-mail notification for dial-up users.  On March 4, 1999, Mr. Brewer invested $3 million in Notify as part of a private placement of common stock and warrants.  On October 12, 1999, he invested another $1.1 million dollars when Notify Technology achieved the first two of four milestones when it successfully negotiated and signed multiple trial agreements for the Company’s new Visual Got Mail products.  "I believe the Company is making great progress with its Visual Got Mail technology.  The Company is also enjoying increasing success with its new Call Manager and Centrex Receptionist products," said David Brewer. "I am exercising the warrants to increase my investment as Notify gets set to launch its Visual Got Mail service."Brewer co-founded Inktomi in February 1996 with Dr. Eric Brewer and Paul Gauthier. Inktomi (NASDAQ: INKT) develops and markets scalable software designed for the world's largest Internet infrastructure and media companies, including the world's largest search engines, online comparison shopping solutions and carrier-class network cache software.Founded in 1994 Notify Technology Corporation,(NASDAQ:NTFY), a leading supplier of message notification, provides innovative products and services supporting the convergence of voice and e-mail communications.  Notify Technology currently sells its products through OEM relationships to major telephone companies and telephone equipment distributors.  The company is headquartered in San Jose, California.  For more information see www.notifycorp.com.

Statements in this press release by Mr. Brewer about future events are forward-looking statements within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, and are subject to the safe harbors created thereby. Actual results could differ materially from these forward-looking statements as a result of the following factors: business conditions and growth in the telecommunications industry and general economics, both domestic and international; lower than expected customer orders and timing of actual orders; the timing and extent to which telephone companies adopt, initiate and promote programs involving the Company's products; competition from other suppliers of telephony adjunct devices; changes in product mix or distribution channels; technological difficulties and resource constraints encountered in developing new products; and additional factors discussed in the Company's public reports filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission.




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