Nstein Announces Partnership with Dun & Bradstreet

2003-05-16

Nstein's Technology Revolutionizes Company Database & Expands Nstein's Product Line

Montreal, May 16, 2003 - Nstein Technologies Inc., (TSX-V: EIN) the leader in providing unstructured content management solutions, announced that it has signed a partnership agreement with one of the world's most highly-regarded business information service companies, Dun & Bradstreet (D & B). Nstein's linguistically-based entity extraction software will utilize D & B's tens of millions of company profiles not only to flag corporate entities within documents, but to make available links to a vast repository of detailed company information.

High quality, timely and on-target information about companies, large and small, is critical within the corporate world. Nstein will be able not only to assist its clients in navigating to the desired text but will provide links to more detailed information.

Comments Randall Marcinko, Nstein's President, "Through this partnership, we are developing a custom Nfinder, based on D & B's rich list of millions of company names, and coupling it to the most robust entity extractor technology available in the market today. Our clients, whether primary or secondary publishers, aggregators or corporate portals will be able to add to the information at their end-users" fingertips, and create new and significant revenue opportunities".

Adam Bernacki, Leader Electronic Licensing at Dun & Bradstreet remarks "Nstein's Nfinder will reach clients that have never had such easy access to our company information. We look forward to a very fruitful relationship that will further extend our reach."

One of Nstein's corporate clients suggests "This gives my company an opportunity to enable our subscribers to retrieve more detailed and extensive information while wedding them inextricably to our ever-growing information retrieval platform. We are anxious to be an early adopter of Nstein's new and enhanced Company Nfinder."

Adds Marcinko, "Nstein is proud to work with a partner who has amassed such an outstanding repository of intellectual property. With our technology and our partners" content we will be a formidable source of company information in the marketplace." Our new product will be applicable to clients in all market sectors " to anyone who cares about company information.



About Nstein Technologies 

Nstein Technologies Inc. is an industry leader in providing innovative content management software solutions to the e-publishing, enterprise and government sectors. Nstein's products automate complex tasks such as document indexing and summarizing, and enable organizations to maximize the value of their content assets through improved organization, navigation, and faster information retrieval. Nstein's Nserver solution is a core content management component, which has enabled Nstein's customers to significantly increase their ROI through gains in productivity, efficiency and revenue. Nstein's headquarters are in Montreal, Canada, with operations in San Francisco, Washington, D.C., and London, U.K. For further information please visit www.nstein.com.

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