Verizon Wireless Chooses ScreamingMedia As Pipeline for Content For vtext.com, New Nationwide Text Messaging Service

NEW YORK, NY and BEDMINSTER, NJ — ScreamingMedia (NASDAQ: SCRM) and Verizon Wireless announce an agreement to provide Verizon Wireless' digital Mobile Messenger^SM customers with access to current information, powered by ScreamingMedia. Through a technology integration, ScreamingMedia is providing filtered third-party content and data to Verizon Wireless' text messaging service Web site, vtext.com, which was launched on November 15, 2001 and available to new and existing customers.

Through www.vtext.com, Verizon Wireless customers can sign up to have information alerts from select providers, such as Red Herring and NYSE, sent to their wireless phone. For a nominal charge of $.02 each, customers can receive alerts on a wide array of subjects including national and international news; business, finance and technology news; and updates on entertainment, sports, travel, health and wellness and more in an SMS-ready format, custom-filtered to their needs.

ScreamingMedia has integrated its SiteWare™ software application into Verizon Wireless' platform where it aggregates and filters SMS-ready third-party content from ScreamingMedia's global digital content network. ScreamingMedia will deliver and integrate all the data to Verizon Wireless' vtext.com service. Additionally, ScreamingMedia's flexible filtering and publishing technology can easily scale to meet the changing needs of Verizon Wireless and its customers.

"Verizon Wireless' vtext.com offers our customers a quick, customizable solution with immediate access to content from top name providers," said Gary Schulman, Verizon Wireless' president of wireless data and Internet services. "Our requirements for quality content, flexible technology and vendor responsiveness were met by ScreamingMedia, a single-source vendor."

"Being chosen to power text messaging content for the nation's largest wireless service provider further solidifies our position as a leading provider of content and technology solutions to the mobile services arena," said Steve Spencer, chief technology officer of ScreamingMedia. "The market for text messaging on the Verizon Wireless network is poised to explode and our customizable solutions and services are a perfect fit for the Verizon Wireless service requirements."

About ScreamingMedia

ScreamingMedia (Nasdaq: SCRM) provides complete content solutions for all enterprise platforms. Powered by its state-of-the-art technology platform, ScreamingMedia offers its clients robust content and technology services to meet all their business needs. ScreamingMedia's technology powers the aggregation, integration and distribution of content into Websites, Intranets, Wireless solutions, iTV, and virtually any other platform. ScreamingMedia specializes in turn-key and custom applications for information-intensive industries, such as finance, healthcare, technology, publishing and consumer-focused businesses. Serving the United States, Europe and Latin America, ScreamingMedia is headquartered in New York City and has offices in San Francisco, London, Paris and Sydney, Australia through an exclusive agreement with BecomeMedia. For more information, visit ScreamingMedia's website at www.screamingmedia.com.

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About Verizon Wireless

Verizon Wireless is the largest wireless communications provider in the U.S. with more than 28.7 million wireless voice and data customers. The coast-to-coast wireless provider was formed by the combination of the U.S. wireless businesses of Verizon Communications (NYSE:VZ) and Vodafone (NYSE and LSE: VOD), including Bell Atlantic Mobile, AirTouch Cellular and GTE Wireless. Verizon Wireless has a footprint covering more than 90 percent of the U.S. population, 49 of the top 50 and 97 of the top 100 U.S. markets. The company, headquartered in Bedminster, NJ, is 40,000 employees strong. Reporters and editors can find more information about the company on the Web at http://www.verizonwireless.com.

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