NEWS AKTUELL AND CEBIT TO COOPERATE FOR A 10TH YEAR

HAMBURG, Germany, March 12 /PRNewswire/ -- news aktuell, the dpa subsidiary, has been chosen as official press
partner of the CeBIT exhibition for a 10th year. This cooperation agreement
for the trade fair will enable IT service providers to publish press
material, subject to special conditions, on news aktuell's information
service. This, the world's largest trade fair for computing and information
and telecommunications technology, will be held in Hanover from 15 to 21
March.


Detlev Rossa, Press and Public Relations Director at Deutsche Messe AG,
gives a favourable account of this long-standing cooperation: "news aktuell
has proven its worth as CeBIT's press partner. The dpa subsidiary's network
has given companies the opportunity to send press texts and photos quickly to
the media, which is of particular importance in the fast-moving information
and telecommunications technology sector. We are pleased to continue working
with news aktuell."


Frank Stadthoewer, news aktuell Chairman, stresses the importance of the
event for the IT sector trade press: "CeBIT is a trendsetter for the entire
field - this is also echoed in the success of our special trade fair service:
news aktuell's CeBIT service has already sent out almost 300 press releases
this year."


Via its Original Text Service (ots), news aktuell reaches the 320 leading
media outlets in Germany by satellite. It also serves, daily, 14,000 email
subscribers from the IT sector, as well as the trade fair's online press room
at: http://www.cebit.de. This site offers access to press material for
journalists at any time.


For further information on the special CeBIT service:


http://www.newsaktuell.de/messe


For up-to-date press releases on CeBIT:


http://www.presseportal.de/CeBIT



Please send any questions to:
news aktuell
Public Relations Manager
Frederik Stiefenhofer
Tel.: +49-(0)40-4113-2772
Fax: +49-(0)40-4114-2876

Editorial office contact:
Deutsche Messe AG
Monika Brandt
Tel.: +49-(0)511-89-31632
Email: monika.brandt@messe.de