IT RADIO NETWORK NOW FEATURING INTERVIEWS WITH TOP EXECS FROM EXPEDIA.COM AND IBM

LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA – October 12th, 2000 -- IT Radio Network, "The Voice of eBusiness," is now featuring in-depth interviews with Richard Barton, CEO of Expedia.com (Nasdaq: EXPE) and Mads Toubro, Director of eCommerce for IBM Global Services (NYSE: IBM).

During the interview with Richard Barton, he discussed the travel agents of the future, customer service, rich media and Expedia Radio.

Barton discussed the integration of broadband rich media into the world of Internet travel sites. "The travel planning experience just gets better as bandwidth increases," said Barton. "When a pipe that comes into your home and really broadens out, you’re able to do richer things and use more multimedia, more pictures and video. Travel planning is a fantastic application that benefits from it."

During the interview with Mads Toubro, he discussed the new definition of "global", the growth rates of eMedia and some of the clients that IBM is currently working with.

Toubro discussed how just because a company has a Web site doesn’t mean that they have gone global. "The Internet by nature is really reaching all corners of the world," said Toubro. "A company needs to understand the fact that not only do they have to manage customers that speak different languages, but that they have to deliver their services or goods to different countries. So the answer is that a company needs to be very, very focused in the up front planning and strategizing on what they want to achieve as a company."

These interviews and many others are available free online in RealAudio and text at http://www.itradionetwork.com.

To access Richard Barton’s interview directly, visit http://www.itradionetwork.com/scripts/bartonr.cfm

To access Mads Toubro’s interview directly, visit http://www.itradionetwork.com/scripts/toubrom.cfm

About IT Radio Network

IT Radio Network is an online audio business magazine that features a variety of tech trends, company spotlights and one-on-one interviews with the people reshaping the world of technology. The site is produced by Sky Radio, which produces radio programs for online magazines, a network of corporate Web sites, several major airline carriers and CEOLive.com.

Interviews also currently available on IT Radio Network include WWF Entertainment (Nasdaq: WWFE) FreeMarkets (Nasdaq: FMKT), Handspring (Nasdaq: HAND), WebEx (Nasdaq: WEBX), PeopleSoft (Nasdaq: PSFT), Corio (Nasdaq: CRIO), Xpedior.com (Nasdaq: XPDR), 24/7 Media (Nasdaq: TFSM) and Author Faith Popcorn.

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