Etronica announces that the company has joined
the Liberate PopTV developer program

Los Angeles, CA - April 3, 2002
Etronica Corporation today announced that it has joined the Liberate PopTV developer program. Etronica's Custom Metatagging and Brilliant Query System™ are tailored perfectly for deployment in the interactive television industry. Using the Etronica technology, software applications can be built to provide "interest based navigation", content-targeted advertising and commerce to viewers. The Etronica technology can be ported to any settop box platform. It's fast performance and lightweight footprint makes it ideal in this application. Jim Saake, Etronica CEO, said: "It makes sense for us to be a Liberate partner."

The Etronica software toolset is available for licensing to hardware manufacturers and middleware developers of digital settop boxes for television programming, personal video recording, and video-on-demand applications.

Visit Liberate to learn more about their partner program: Liberate Partner site

About Etronica
Etronica Corporation (www.etronica.com), is a Los Angeles, CA based software and Web services company. The company is focused on providing software technology to enhance the search, navigation and personalization of text based digital content. The company's Content Metatagging™ and Patented Brilliant Query™ technologies are designed for use in Web based knowledge management applications (text archives and content rich websites) and in settop box based electronic entertainment guides. Etronica's unique technology enables multi-dimensional searches that provide easy access to digital information and facilitate highly personalized, content-targeted, ad and commerce serving.

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