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Voiceglo Launches 'Talk It Up' Internet Phone Sweepstakes; Consumers Have Chance to Win Their Choice of This Year's Hottest Cars FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. --(Business Wire)-- July 22, 2004 -- Voiceglo, a global, full-service Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) communications company, is encouraging people to 'Talk It Up' with friends and family this summer using Voiceglo's free Internet phone, the GloPhone, and possibly win one of this year's hottest cars in the process. The company today kicked off its "Talk It Up Sweepstakes," giving people yet another reason to take advantage of its browser-based GloPhone, that enables users to call each other anywhere in the world for free. The contest will be the first in a series of four sweepstakes contests Voiceglo will be holding throughout the year, with grand prizes that include the winners' choice of a PT Cruiser, a Mini Cooper, Volkswagen Beetle convertible, a Chevy SSR convertible, or a Jeep Wrangler Sport convertible.The first sweepstakes contest is running now until August 31st, and anyone activating a GloPhone at http://www.glophone.com/sweepstakes will automatically be entered into weekly drawings for Apple iPod(R) minis. Additionally, each winner is entered into a drawing to pick the car of their choice. As an added incentive, customers will receive bonus entries into the sweepstakes for each person they refer to the service who activates a GloPhone before the end of August. There is no limit on the number of sweepstakes entries an individual can be awarded. Other cars and prizes will be given away in subsequent contests each month from September through November. With the GloPhone, customers can use the Internet to call other GloPhone users anywhere in the world, for free. Through additional calling plans, GloPhone customers can make calls to and receive calls from people anywhere with any phone. Available features include voice mail to email, call forwarding, call waiting, and caller ID. GloPhone users also get to choose any phone number they would like from the more than 190 U.S. area codes available within the GloPhone service areas, allowing them to establish a local number that friends and family can use to contact them anywhere, anytime, with no long distance fees. No matter where people are this summer, friends and family on the GloPhone network will always be able to 'Talk It Up.' To learn more about how the 'Talk It Up' sweepstakes, please visit http://www.glophone.com/sweepstakes. Winners are subject to official sweepstakes rules. About Voiceglo Headquartered in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., Voiceglo (http://www.voiceglo.com) is a global full-service Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) communications company. Since its inception in 2002, Voiceglo has grown to provide telecommunications service to thousands of customers worldwide. Voiceglo is a subsidiary of theglobe.com (OTCBB:TGLO), founded by Michael S. Egan (founder of Alamo-Rent-a-Car and Certified Vacations) and Edward A. Cespedes, a former investment banker with J.P. Morgan. Voiceglo's strategy is to provide phone numbers to an unlimited number of consumers and business customers - whether free or paid - and for these customers to use their phone number on any Internet-enabled computer anywhere in the world to make local, long distance and international calls. Through its proprietary patent-pending technology, Voiceglo recently launched its award-winning GloPhone product (http://www.glophone.com), which provides a way for subscribers to call each other while online (i.e. peer-to-peer calling), as well as call and receive calls via traditional landline or wireless phones via a broadband or dial-up connection. Safe Harbor - This press release includes forward-looking statements related to theglobe.com, inc. and subsidiaries that involve risks and uncertainties, including, but not limited to, risks and uncertainties relating to integration of newly acquired businesses and assets, product delivery, product launch dates (particularly as they pertain to our Voiceglo services), the Internet, development and protection of technology, the management of growth, market acceptance of our Voiceglo VoIP products, our ability to compete successfully against established competitors with greater resources, the uncertainty of future governmental regulation (particularly as it pertains to the Internet and the provision of telephony services using the Internet) and other risks. These forward-looking statements are made in reliance on the "Safe Harbor" provisions of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. For further information about these and other factors that could affect theglobe.com's future results and business plans, please see the Company's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, including in particular our Annual Report of Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2002 and our Quarterly Report on Form 10-QSB for the quarter ended March 31, 2004. Copies of these filings are available online at http://www.sec.gov. Prospective investors are cautioned that forward-looking statements are not guarantees of performance. Actual results may differ materially and adversely from management expectations. |
