Largest Online Distributor of Internet Software Joins Wired Home Leader to Offer One Million Dollar FireCracker Give-Away

Tucows.com and X10.com perfect match for putting free wireless home control starter kit into hands of technology enthusiasts and early adopters

Seattle - November 8, 1999 -X10.com (www.x10.com/pressroom33.htm) and Tucows.com are known for offering their audiences the chance to fuel the mass adoption of the latest cutting-edge technology products, and now the two companies are teaming up to literally give-away one million dollars worth of the FireCracker Home Control Starter Kits, each with a $73.00 retail value, for only $5.90 to cover administrative and handling charges.

Tucows.com is the largest distributor of Internet and Internet related software on the Web today and its users are technology enthusiasts and early adopters with an enormous amount of power for influencing the mass adoption of new technology products. Online since 1983, Tucows.com offers the ulitmate collection of Winsock software and has been repeatedly recognized as a world class site by publications such as PC Magazine and Windows Magazine.

The FireCracker is a expandable computer-based kit that allows you to remotely control lights and appliances using a combination of your home’s existing AC wiring and Radio Frequency signals. In only a few months, X10.com has given away more than 100,000 FireCracker kits in an effort to introduce technology savvy web communities and user groups such as Tucows.com to the incredible simplicity and power of building a home where you can remotely control almost anything electrical at the touch of a button from anywhere in the home.

"Exposing our audience to the latest and greatest leading-edge technology products is how we have become a network which is home to over 3500 software titles and 900 software publishers," said Denzil Solomon, Director of Business Development, Tucows.com. "By offering the FireCracker for practically nothing, the tough part will be limiting folks to only one kit."

"X10.com has been methodically seeking out those groups on the Web capable of propelling our Wired Home products into the mainstream consumer market," said Alex Peder, President, X10.com. " Tucows.com could not be a better place for us to gain third party validation for our wireless home control platform which at its core is best represented by the FireCracker Kit. By offering this kit for basically free, we believe computer and technology enthusiasts worldwide will become X10.com customers for years to come."

FireCracker Components

Computer interface - No bigger than a Fig Newton™, the interface plugs into a serial port in the back of your computer. The X10 through-port design allows you to plug another device into the back of the interface. Using the FireCracker software allows you to send commands through this interface to the Wireless Link Module™ and through the household wiring. This interface can control up to 16 sets of lights and appliances.

PalmPad Remote Control - The PalmPad™Remote is one of X10’s most powerful remotes, allowing you to control up to 16 sets of lights and appliances when you are away from your PC.

Wireless Link Module - This module takes the wireless signal from the computer interface and converts it to an X10 signal, sending commands through the household wiring to lamp and appliance modules.

Lamp Module - This module receives signals to turn on or off a lamp based on your commands.

For more details on the FireCracker Home Control Starter Kit visit www.x10.com/pressroom33.htm.

 

About X10.com

Based in Seattle, X10.com is a division of privately held X10 Ltd., the world leader in design and manufacture of proprietary home control, entertainment and security technology products for over 20 years. To date, X10 has shipped well over one hundred million units of home control products worldwide. X10 has received numerous consumer and industry awards. X10.com sells and promotes X10 products direct to the consumer through its web site at www.x10.com/pressroom33.htm Recently, Media Metrix has ranked X10 as a top one hundred e-commerce Web site based on traffic and sales.

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