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That brilliant deduction by our editorial department leads us to a basic assumption: all of our readers are potentially in need of our featured company’s product.

We know this because today’s featured company offers a product that can dramatically enhance the way YOUR computer functions in a very specific area. 

Ask yourself the following:

Enter eCom eCom (OTCBB: ECEC) and its DryIce TDE™ “COMPACTION” software.  Our readers undoubtedly are familiar with the concept of  “compression”, a computer term commonly used to describe the reduction of the size of a large file for the purpose of sharing or storage.  But did you know that compression generally reduces file size by eliminating parts of the file, making it smaller but also degrading the quality?

eCom eCom’s COMPACTION technology encodes and shrinks images to make them smaller, achieving dramatically increased reduction ratios (as much as 40 times greater) while preserving all of the image detail and quality.  This also increases the file transfer rates and conserves precious hard drive space.  DryIce TDE™ software is poised to set a new benchmark in graphics file size reduction because it increases the speed of transmission and computer storage capacity while enhancing security through its unique encoding technology.  It may well become the new standard for image, video and graphics delivery. 

States the company, “When compression is not enough, COMPACTION takes over”

If you have a digital camera, this inexpensive software is a necessity.
If you receive pictures via email this software is a “must have.”

Could eCom’s software become the solution -- the standard for storage of digital images on PC’s everywhere?  Please read on to learn about eCom and its products. We strongly encourage all our readers, at the very least, to put this stock on their watch list. We are following this story closely and we will bring it to you as it develops.

ANNOUNCES

   An Important Breakthrough In Software Technology ! 

Why wait and wait for your digital pictures to load and unload
and then find that you have lost detail, crispness and quality?

The launch of innovative DryIce TDE™ Compaction Software 
the perfect complement to a digital camera

COMPANY OVERVIEW

eCom eCom's breakthrough product, DryIce TDE™, will bring the best security and image compaction available to those who store and transfer pictures via computers. eCom eCom's first application using TDE, myPicZip™, will shrink virtually unlimited galleries of photos to eliminate the restraints on storage capability with little or no degradation in quality. The recent surge in popularity of digital cameras has increased the demand for software technology, such as myPicZip™, that enables fast transmission, sending high quality pictures in small, quick files. It is the compaction and security elements of this technology that sets DryIce TDE™ apart from every compression-type software. 
 

The three principal business segments of eCom eCom are the electronic commerce segment focused on compaction software, the manufacturing of paintball guns and accessories and the marketing and selling of sports memorabilia. While paintball and sports memorabilia have been responsible for the majority of the Company's revenues to date, the positive response to the compaction software and the mulitude of potential applications has significantly expanded the opportunity for increased revenues.  With the evolution of its business model, the Company is divesting its paintball and sports memorabilia businesses.
 

IMPORTANT NEWS

About TDE Temporal Differential Encoding 

TDE is capable of reducing images to very small sizes while preserving the integrity of the original image during compaction. This process allows the user to zoom in or out of images without errors or distortion and complies with both the worldwide Twain32 Standard for scanning documents and the ODBC (Open Data Base Connectivity) standard. 

DryIce TDE™ technology is positioned to become a leader in image, text, video and data delivery.

Applications of DryIce TDE™ Software are positioned to become standard utilities in every computer, just like anti-virus software. Knowledgeable computer users will not just want DryIce TDE™, they'll demand it because it will be so useful in so many ways. 

DryIce TDE™ is a totally different technology and should not be confused with compression technologies based on wavelet or fractal techniques. Current compression technologies produce very small compression ratios, which are attained by permanently eliminating parts of the image. 

Rather than compressing images, DryIce TDE™ utility encodes and shrinks images to make them smaller. This revolutionary encoding and shrinking process preserves all of the original image, reducing it to an extremely high ratio without loss of information. By maintaining original quality and dramatically reducing transmission time, DryIce TDE™ opens up a vast realm of new or improved applications. DryIce TDE™ software is in a league of its own because it increases the speed of transmission and computer storage capacity while enhancing security through its unique encoding algorithm. It is competitively superior to compression technologies that destroy image detail.  For most computer users who have less than 56K modem speed, DryIce TDE™ will greatly reduce download time and increase image storage capacity without added hardware upgrades. 

DryIce TDE™ has compaction ratios of up to 4,000 to 1.
 
 

myPicZip™

When  'photo shrink' product, myPicZip™ powered by DryIce TDE™, hits the market, digital camera users will soon discover that myPicZip™ is a 'must have' item. It enables fast transmission of images, sending high-quality pictures in small, quick files. 

myPicZip™ Is Set To   Revolutionize Digital   Storage and Transmission Storage: making the PC a storage vault Speed: Faster Downloads Security: hacker proof

 

Z Boxx™

Z Boxx™ Enabling Storage, Routing and Acceleration 

The Z Boxx™ is a hardware/software solution under development by Zyndecom, Inc. - a joint venture of eCom eCom and its partner, PremierSoft.  It integrates DryIce TDE™ technology with PremierSoft's Syndeos™ technology to create a bi-directional, cross-operating platform, and cross-software communication synchronization architecture. The Z Boxx™ eliminates incompatibility between independently developed computer systems and provides for secure, central storage, easily accessible to all authorized users.

                        The Z Boxx™

                         1. Communicates with any platform or legacy environment and enhances any peer-to
                              peer system, assigning permissions with non-evasive databases.

                          2. Accelerates transmission of "fileless" data via a substream manager, which in turn
                              becomes "persistent" memory on the clients' hard drives until needed.

                          3. Collaborates using the persistent memory on a "hubless" network and accesses
                              authorized memory (with permissions) from other users on the system. 
 

 

David J. Panaia, Chairman & CEO of eCom eCom.com Inc. on CEOcast

"... where JPEG ends up somewhere around 100 to 1 (in compression ratios), although they're saying they someday may get up to about 500 to 1, ours (with DryIce technology) starts at that point and goes up to 4,000 to 1 and someday we can see it going up to maybe 25,000 to 1."
 

THE STOCK AT A GLANCE

• Shares Outstanding: 20,303,003
• 52-Week Range: $0.2000 - $0.9200
• Market Maker: EquiTrade Securities Inc. (949) 699-1170
• Transfer Agent: Florida Atlantic Stock Transfer
• Daily Volume: 86,300 (01/18/02)
• Fiscal Year End: 05/31

For OnLine Information

View current press releases: click here
View SEC filings:  click here
 

Company Contact

eCom eCom.com Inc.
2700 PGA Blvd., Suite 103
Palm Beach Gardens, FL 33410
Phone: (561) 622-4395
Fax: (561) 624-0202 
info@ecomecom.net

myPicZip, Z-Boxx and DryIce TDE are registered trademarks of eCom eCom.com Inc.

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