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Press announcement - For immediate release
August 6th, 2003 -- Boisbriand, Quebec

The General Center for Internet Services Inc. (GCIS) launches Internet Security.ca and is pleased to announce it has successfully completed its development of Proxy Sentinel™, the safest and most powerful Internet security proxy server and firewall available today. Internet Security.ca is a fully-owned and operated subsidiary of GCIS and represents our total and firm commitment in the field of Internet security in today's business world.

For more than a year now, GCIS received a very strong demand for powerful "blogging" solutions so we have begun the construction of www.escalate.ca as a direct response to bringing all our clients the web marketing tools they really need. Click here to learn more. (Note: www.escalate.ca is still under construction but should be ready on July 17, 2003).

The Center has begun the development of Site Clicks™, a powerful web site tracking solution to help Fortune 500 companies and businesses better track their web visiting traffic and thus significantly increase their ROI. Site Clicks™ from GCIS will be available at the end of August 2003. Click here to be among the first companies to order Site Clicks™.

GCIS welcomes two new programmers to our ever-growing Internet application development team. Mr. Stéphane Auger is now part of our network and server management division and is directly involved in the day-to-day operation and administration of our new web server infrastructure in British-Columbia. We also wish to welcome Miss Mélanie Turgeon, who has accepted a development responsability in Phase Two of our B2B transactional platform to be released later this summer. Together, we wish them lots of success in their endeavours.

The Center wishes to welcome Mr. Normand Gingras as our newest Internet solutions sales representative in the Laval area. Mr. Gingras has extensive experience in the field of corporate network solutions, Internet technology and secure e-commerce applications. Together, we wish him the best of success in his goals to be a leader of our rapidly-growing sales team.

GCIS is pleased to announce the successful development and deployment of our new search engine: Global Business Listing.com, a powerful Internet search engine created by business people and to be used by business people. Global Business Listing combines the speed of Google, the diversity of Yahoo and the innovation of Alta-Vista. In addition to be able to make a query using the search box, you can search by industry.

GCIS is pleased to welcome Mrs. Lise Robichaud and Mr. Steve Garfield in the ranks of our programmers and integrators. Mrs Robichaud has more than three years experience in programing Internet applications in languages such as PHP, HTML and other languages. Mr. Garfield has many years of experience in the programming and integration of large-scale relational databases in complex and secure B2B applications.

Mrs. Robichaud and Mr. Garfield are both involved in the on-going development of our new second-generation B2B transactional platform that GCIS will deploy in august of 2003. Together we wish them the warmest welcome and best chances of success.

The Center is pleased in welcoming José Fernandes as one of our newest sales representative in Montreal, Quebec. José has a long experience in Information Technology, both in hardware solutions and software consulting. Together, we wish him all the best. Mr. Fernandes will report to Henri Frappier, sales manager, eastern Canada.

GCIS has completed the development of it's Web Store™ e-commerce application and has begun its marketing. Web Store™ is a full-range, turnkey secure e-commerce vending solution, complete with products catalog, Intelli Cart™ shopping cart technology, secure credit card checkout & payment and integrated admin features.

Web Store™ is the culmination of many Internet technologies, featuring the industry-standard J2EE and JSP technologies developed by Sun Microsystems. Web Store™ was developed with the small to medium-size business in mind. It has standard features only comparable to competing solutions costing twice as much.

What really makes Web Store™ unique is its availability as an ASP (Application Service Provider) solution, in wich companies are able to lease Web Store™ instead of buying it outright. Cash flow resources are better left in your business than tied up in e-commerce software.

In our never-ending desire to offer our clients the best service there is, we now have a 1-800 toll-free number, accessible from any Canadian province and/or from any US state.

The Center is very pleased in welcoming Mr. Henri Frappier at our Quebec head office. Mr. Frappier has been named senior sales manager for the province of Quebec.

With over 15 years of experience in IT management and consulting, Mr. Frappier has been mandated to further develop and additionally increase our market share in eastern Canada. When that is done, Mr. Frappier will be concentrating on increasing our already improving market share in Ontario, the Praires and British Columbia.

A very energetic and dynamic individual, Mr. Frappier will then concentrate his skills in the United States, where GCIS already has a presence in some states, namely in New York, Massachussetts, Texas and California. Mr. Frappier's email address is: henrif@gcis.ca

Together, we wish him the very best chances of success in our growing organization.

The General Center for Internet Services Inc. is proud in announcing it has completed the successful development of the My Web Services™ Platform, a 2 year joint-development project that was co-developed with My Web Services.ca, the co-managers of the project. GCIS will retain a 51% equity position in the venture.

On top of providing built-in Web Services support, the My Web Services™ Platform fully introduces the ability to monitor Internet usage and track Web messages traffic better. Furthermore, the My Web Services™ Platform will also transport data between any other application format, including Java, XML, EDI and, last but not least, Microsoft .Net applications. Microsoft .Net is the top-priority project running at Microsoft since the beginning of 2001.

The Center welcomes Mr. Martin Lajoie in its ranks of new systems programmers. Mr. Lajoie has extensive experience in the development of highly secure e-commerce and e-business credit-card payment systems and real-time transactional processing. He will work on our new Netdoxs™ platform, version 2.0 to be released in the second quarter of '03. Netdoxs™ is a bill presentment and payment solution (BPP) used by our customers in the banking / financial industry as well as businesses operating e-commerce sites and companies engaged in the field of B2B applications using such solutions as our industry-leader B2B Turnpike™ solution.

Mr. Lajoie will work at our headquarters in Boisbriand, QC. Together, we wish him all his best chances of success. Mr. Lajoie's email address is: mlajoie@gcis.ca

In our continuing quest in helping our customers to learn more about Search Engine Optimization (SEO), the Center just finished writing "The Top 10 SEO Myths and Misconceptions". The world of SEO is vast, complex and ever changing. Learn all about the real facts and clear the way of all the myths and misconceptions. Click here and read all about this very important subject.

GCIS is proud in announcing that Netdoxs™, a powerful online billing and payment solution developed at the Center, was responsible for the successful implementation of one of our global customers, a leader in its field.

Netdoxs™ main advantages:

No more traditional paper bills or other documents.

You can analyse your e-bills or other important documents.

You can pay directly and see the impact on your account immediately.

Fully secure 128 bit encrypted North-American banking environment.

Net Security
With the constant rise of Internet security breaches, Denial of Service (DoS) atacks and email virus threats, the Center has created an important new section to its Web site. Located on the far left menu section (left black area), you will find this new Net Security clickable text link to access this important new security section. It is directly located just above the Employment text link. It is constantly updated twice a week. Network administrators, IT personnel or simple day-to-day computer users will find a wealth of important and relevant updated information that is vital in keeping any IT network or Internet applications up and running today. Click here now to access this new and important security section.

Since 1996, the GCIS Web site has been and is still the Number One source to get the most recent and updated information on the Internet world and related e-commerce, intranet, extranet or B2B applications. Make the GCIS homepage your default homepage in your Internet browser and keep in touch with the latest news that matter to you.

The General Center for Internet Services Inc. (GCIS) is proud to introduce our Data Switch Pro™, a corporate database switch that lets its users pool vast databases to potentially reduce the number of database servers they maintain and to better utilize capacity, hence largely increasing efficiency.

Corporate Database Switching at its best
After more than six months of R&D, Data Switch Pro™ from GCIS will significantly increase the througput and efficiency of any corporate database system on the market today. In many corporations and government departments, individual database servers typically are used less than five to ten per cent, contributing to reduced productivity and increased IT costs. To achieve much higher ROI today, companies must make maximum use of their available and existing databases. Click here to get all the information on Data Switch Pro™ from the Center.

Using it's powerful and exclusive Datamart Builder™ solutions, GCIS has successfully completed an extensive enterprise database IT project for a major client: Formula Z Performance Products Ltd. of Toronto. The $ 1,300,000 contract was awarded to the Center after Formula Z evaluated more than 14 different datamart proposals from other vendors. Click here to read this important and successful news story.

The General Center for Internet Services Inc. (GCIS) unveils it's flexible Portrex™ information portal solutions for business, industry and government.

The Center's powerful Portrex™ information portals will securely access and take advantage of the knowledge management information that already resides inside computer systems in any organization and transform it into vital and valuable information that will drive any company's marketing and sales department into new business opportunities.

Major features and benefits

Fully scalable and upgradable

Extremely flexible and versatile

Very user friendly and intuitive

Will drive your sales into new records

Will greatly reduce your time to market

Will completely leverage your IT investments

Easy learning curve that requires little training

Can be fully integrated into your existing datamart

Invaluable in the development of new global & local markets

Will greatly assist your staff in the identification of new trends

Will vastly complement your existing intranet and / or extranet

Will considerably reduce your R&D costs, thus increasing your ROI

With the right Internet security, can be integrated to your current Web site

GCIS proudly unveils version 2.0 of Pagina+™. Pagina+™ ver. 2.0 offers improvements in the top placement of corporate Web sites in the major search engines such as Google, Yahoo, Alta-Vista, Hot-Bot and Excite. Additionally, version 2.0 automatically checks to make sure that all pages of a Web site have been properly optimized, prioritized and placed on the aforementioned Internet search engines. Click here for more information on our new version 2.0 of Pagina+™ exclusive web top placement and optimizing solution. Pagina+™ version 2.0 is a uniquely patented application developed by the Center and exclusively offered by GCIS.

We have created a new section to our Web site called Internet Marketing (Web Marketing on the menu at the bottom of all our web pages). This completely new area will inform you on all aspects of current trends, news, statistics and numbers on Web marketing, it's underlying technologies and the important aspects you need to know for your business, organization or global corporation. Just click here to read all these important facts about the Internet and how to be successful in e-commerce / e-business / B2B. The main link is accessible on the bottom menu of all our pages on the GCIS site by simply clicking on "Web marketing".

We are pleased to welcome Kim Lanthier to our distinguished team of software developers and programmers. Kim will be directly responsible for the design and development of our full line of ASP (Microsoft Active Server Pages) and JSP (Oracle and Sun Java Server Pages) professional Web sites. Additionally, Kim will be involved in the development and customer integration of certain phases of our Access and SQL database products and solutions at the Center.

Prior to joining GCIS, Kim had been involved in the complex design, initial development and testing of flexible robotics applications and prototyping for the manufacturing and packaging industry. Kim will be working at our Boisbriand, Quebec laboratories. Together, we wish her the very best chances of success and a long term career at the Center.

The Center proudly announces today that one of it's flagship Web solution, Pagina+™, is the main subject today of a very positive article in Computer Times of London magazine and has received extremely favorable comments in the exclusive way Pagina+™ from GCIS effectively positions and optimizes all our client's corporate Web sites on the top 10 positions of all major Internet search engines such as Google, Yahoo, Alta-Vista and Lycos. Read this very exciting article by clicking here. Since it's foundation in 1996, GCIS has always been a world leader in SEO (Search Engine Optimization) technology and related Internet software development.

The Center has completed the devolopment of Encrypt Doc™ and has begun it's worldwide marketing. Encrypt Doc™ from GCIS represents more than five months of intensive research and development in our Internet labs. All data security and integrity matters have been carefully evaluated in their initial planning and development phase. GCIS has extensive experience in Internet, intranet, extranet, e-commerce, B2B and email applications developed for today's complex corporate requirements. Encrypt Doc™ from GCIS represents your best Internet security solutions for all your corporate data needs. Encrypt Doc™ is available in 64 bit and 128 bit encryption versions. For light security needs, use our Encrypt Doc™ 64 bit version wich will meet most of your light security applications. Click here to find out the whole story on Encrypt Doc™ - the leading Internet encription solution in the IT industry.

The Center is real proud to welcome Mr. Luc Auger among our new technical consultants. Before joining GCIS, Mr. Auger was an account director at Insight Canada, an important PC and hardware reseller in Canada. Luc will be in charge of account development and support. His main district will be part of the industrial park in Laval. Together, we want to wish him our warmest welcome and the best chances of success at Canada's leader in corporate Internet services: GCIS !

On tuesday, September 11th, 2001, the United States of America was the victim of the worst terrorist attack in it's history. More than 3,000 innocent Americans lost their lives when the twin towers of the World Trade Center were both deliberately crashed by terrorists using jet planes as guided missiles. Both towers collapsed within minutes, killing people in the thousands. A few minutes later, a third plane hit the Pentagon in Washington D.C., killing another 119 people. A fourth plane was then crashed in a field in Pennsylvania, killing all 56 passengers and crew. In New York City, more than 370 firefighters died trying to rescue victims trapped in both towers. Minutes later, both towers collapsed on them, killing all firemen, many policemen and emergency rescue workers.

Everybody at the Center were totally appalled when the news broke out at around 9.30 am on that terrible day. A day that will always be remembered and written in all history books. The General Center for Internet Services wishes to offer it's most sincere condoleances to all families that have suffered the lost of loved ones. They shall never be forgotten. God bless America and all it's great people.

The Center just completed: « The Practical Guide to Selling Efficiently with any B2B Exchange ». It is absolutely free to any company or organization. Just click here to read these very important guidelines and "How To" notes before going ahead with your B2B initiative.

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