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IMAGINON DEVELOPS VIZARIO™ SEARCH & RETRIEVAL SYSTEM FOR HANDHELD WIRELESS DEVICES

Latest offspring of ImaginOn's patented Transformational Database Processing and Playback (TDPP) technology finds, formats, and plays back data from Web and intranet servers without a browser or Wide Area Protocol;

Proof of concept stage is complete;
demonstrations for telcos and wireless equipment manufacturers set to begin in February;

ImaginOn is now a Motorola iDEN,
Sprint PCS Wireless Web and Symbian developer.

SAN CARLOS, CALIFORNIA, January 18, 2001 -- Underscoring the broad scope of its core technology, ImaginOn, Inc. (NASDAQ: IMON) (www.imaginon.com) today announced that it is developing a next generation wireless search and retrieval system called Vizario™. According to ImaginOn Chief Executive Officer David Schwartz, Vizario, which is based on ImaginOn's patented Transformational Database Processing and Playback software technology, promises to bring significant new benefits to telcos, wireless equipment manufacturers, and end-users because it is designed to find, format, and play back data from either the Web or intranet servers without a browser or the Wide Area Protocol (WAP).

"As anyone with an Internet enabled cell phone or PDA already knows, the prevalent system for accessing data from the Web or from an Intranet server using a micro-browser and WAP is less than optimal -- to put it politely," Schwartz said today. "Version 1.0 of Vizario for Motorola's iDEN phone is designed to perform efficiently and accurately without WAP or a browser. As a Sprint PCS developer and Symbian JavaPhone developer, we are planning to extend Vizario into those environments as well."

"Business professionals as well as consumers are depending more and more on their cell phones and wireless PDAs," Schwartz continued. "They need to be able to locate, access and retrieve audio, video, and text information via the Web anywhere they happen to be at the moment. We believe that Vizario will prove to be the wireless system that provides them with the information they need, when they need it most, fast and efficiently, without typing. With Vizario, any Web page can be filtered and reformatted in real-time for display on any Java® enabled wireless device.

Incorporating ImaginOn's patented software technology, Vizario is a Java based client-server system that features an extremely small memory footprint -- a critical requirement for widespread deployment in a variety of wireless devices. What's more, Vizario permits Web searches to be initiated from a desktop and retrieved by a cell phone or PDA device, as well as on-the-fly filtered and formatted search reports for small screen displays. According to Schwartz, ImaginOn has completed the proof of concept stage and is now set to begin product demonstrations for select telcos and wireless equipment manufacturers in February. Depending on how those product demonstrations go, actual product could be available by the beginning of the Third Quarter 2001 -- if the software is accepted by service providers.

"Vizario is designed from the ground up for the wireless handheld device market," ImaginOn Vice President of Network Operations Abe Matar emphasized today. "The two main software components of Vizario are the Vizario Midlet and the Vizario Wireless Data Server Engine. The Wireless Data Server Engine is the application server side of the new system, where the downloadable Java midlets, the database of relevant Web addresses, as well as a cache of filtered and formatted output data are stored. The Vizario Midlet is the Java software that is downloaded and run on the handheld device. The Midlet provides an on-screen menu interface for requesting information and then displaying it. Data requests may be for any type of information: formatted search results, Web pages, and even audio or video files."

ImaginOn, Inc. is an information technology company focused on developing and marketing broadband and wireless interactive Internet and intranet software systems. ImaginVideo™, the company's lead product, is a Java client-server application for the delivery and management of interactive video over TCP/IP networks.

ImaginVideo and Vizario
are trademarks of ImaginOn and are protected under U.S. Patents.
All other trademarks herein are the property of their respective owners.

Except for the historical information presented herein, the matters set forth in this press release are forward-looking statements within the meaning of the "safe harbor" provision of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995, or by the Securities and Exchange Commission in its rules, regulations, and releases. These forward-looking statements are subject to risks and uncertainties that may cause actual results to differ materially. These risks include acceptance of ImaginOn software by developers and users, the successful development of competitive software to ImaginOn's, competitive pricing pressures for ImaginOn software and services, and the availability of financing to complete management's plans and objectives. In addition, other risks are detailed in the Company's periodic reports and in its Form S-1 registration statement declared effective by the Securities and Exchange Commission on May 11, 2000. These forward-looking statements speak only as of the date hereof. The Company disclaims any intent or obligation to update these forward-looking statements.