Mentor Launched on Home Shopping Network

Marks the first time Home Shopping Network has featured an eLearning software product as a standalone offer

Norwalk, CT, January 9, 2002 — Mentor, the world's most successful line of e-learning solutions with more than six million licenses sold worldwide, is now available on the Home Shopping Network.

Mentor Software for Windows XP & the Internet CD-ROM™, a special bundled pack of two of Mentor's best-selling products, was created specifically for Home Shopping Network customers. It made its debut on the network on Wednesday, January 9, 2002 during a special broadcast from the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas.

The occasion marked the first time Home Shopping Network has ever offered eLearning software as a standalone product, rather than simply bundled with computer hardware. Priced at $39.75, Mentor Software for Windows XP & the Internet CD-ROM is designed to help home PC users and small business owners learn how to effectively use Microsoft Windows XP and leading Internet applications. It is comprised of over 300 short, just-in-time multimedia demonstrations designed to answer questions on how to perform every kind of function within the applications, from basic to highly advanced. Mentor's always available, easy to understand support is ideal for individual PC users and small businesses across America, few of whom have access to help-desks or costly training departments.

"Mentor makes users instantly successful with new software without a major time investment and without taking any training," says Dan Gallo, president and CEO of Mentor Media Group. "The fact that this is the first time Home Shopping Network has featured an eLearning software product is a validation of Mentor and its appeal to the retail market."

Mentor products are currently being used by Fortune 100 companies worldwide, including IBM, GE Capital, Dupont, Verizon and DaimlerChrysler. A Mentor can be added to any software to motivate and instruct users and give them instant, multimedia demonstrations of how to perform its functions.

About Mentor Media Group

Mentor Media Group is a leading business communications company offering custom and off-the-shelf e-learning products. With over six million user licenses sold, its flagship solution, Mentor™ helps companies get more out of their new technology by making users successful as soon as the systems are deployed. Now available to individual users as well as businesses, a Mentor can be added to any software to motivate and instruct users and give them instant, multimedia demonstrations of how to perform its functions. Mentors are appropriate for a wide range of products and services offered by software developers, hardware manufactures, Internet Service Providers, device manufacturers, and developers of e-Business systems or exchanges.

Mentor delivers just-in-time, sight-and-sound multimedia Communication, Learning, and Support via local networks, CDs, local hard drives, or streamed over the Internet. Mentors are available in multiple languages for Lotus products such as Notes, Sametime, QuickPlace, and TeamRoom; for popular Microsoft products such as Windows 2000, Windows Me, Outlook 2000, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Internet Explorer; as well as for Netscape Navigator and custom applications. Mentor has become a learning standard at Fortune 500 companies like IBM, DuPont, Verizon, DaimlerChrysler, GE Capital, Duke Energy, Colgate-Palmolive, and many smaller companies. Mentor can be experienced online at www.trymentor.com.

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