The AmCad system provides Internet public access at http://www.ncc-deeds.com. It revolutionizes the process of searching for property and corporate documents in New Castle County -- the most common venue for U.S. corporate registrations -- by bringing full-image versions of original documents to the public's home and office computers.

Williamstown, Mass.-based Clickshare Service Corp. is providing user authentication, transaction and billing services for the Newcastle site and for two other Amcad systems going live in the next 30 days.

"This site allows the public and businesses such as title companies, law firms, Realtors, assessors and geneologists to have access to millions of online images and data in a matter of seconds at any time of day or night," said Jim Brown, chief operating officer of AmCad, of Reston, Va., a leader in automation of government deed records worldwide.

AmCad makes the records available through Clickshare technology on a per-document basis. Full-image document downloads are available for 50 cents per page, but basic data on each filed document is available for free.

"This is a unique government-to-business partnership which saved the county hundreds of thousands of dollars and provided access to millions of images online," said Michael Battaglia, New Castle County's Recorder of Deeds. "Over 100 companies and individuals have signed up for the site and over 800 purchases of images have been successfully completed."

In a unique private-public partnership, AmCad's investors funded the conversion of over five million document images in return for five years of revenue from the site. Thereafter, Delaware county officials have the option to continue the partnership.

"New Castle County, Mike Battaglia and the Recorder of Deeds staff were forward thinkers and open to new technology and services," said Brown, of Amcad. "They have been great partners in this project. This is an innovative approach and demonstrates that Internet projects with real cost benefits are alive and well."

Clickshare's user authentication and registration commerce platform enables fast purchase of the downloadable document images. Once registered, users can make subsequent purchases at any AmCad public-records website without having to re-enter credit-card or personal information.

"Fast, inexpensive and simple access to public land records when consumers need them most is a perfect example of the kind of premium content that Clickshare is making economically feasible on the Internet," said Rick Lerner, Clickshare CEO. "With Clickshare, AmCad can make the connection between the custodians of the records and consumers -- who are happy to pay for the convenience of not having to travel to physical offices and search paper records."

AmCad will gradually provide per-document access to records in U.S. jurisdictions in at least 12 states totaling more than six million residents, with two more venues set to go live during September. Besides Clickshare, AmCad's partner in the projects is Unisys Corp., of Blue Bell, Pa., which provides the Unisys E@ction severs and disk subsystems that host the New Castle data and images.

About Amcad
American Cadastre, Inc. (AmCad), founded in 1986, provides consulting and information systems to government and private enterprise worldwide for speeding and digitizing access to land and geographic records. Its services are used by geneologists, law firms, land title-search services, aerial mapping providers, real-estate agents and public agencies. Besides in the United States, AmCad's services are used in countries such as Armenia, Ukraine, Mexico, Kazakstan, Russia and Ghana. Through its "Electronic Commerce Service Center", AmCad enables governments to provide automated public access to tax and land records on a round-the-clock basis using an Internet-based, client-server approach. AmCad is based in Reston, Va. The company is privately held.

About Clickshare The Clickshare Service is an Internet transaction infrastructure for shared authentication and single sign-on. It enables privacy-protected purchasing of text, music, video, software, and other products and services. Companies like Microsoft Corp., AOL/Time Warner Inc., Sun Microsystems Inc., and the 35 companies which are part of the Sun-lead Liberty Alliance have identified so-called "single sign-on" and shared authentication as key requirements for Internet commerce. Clickshare is taking the lead in rolling it out for the newspaper industry.

With a Clickshare-powered account, consumers have one account at a most-trusted website and buy from other websites without having to pass around a credit-card number, repeatedly register or give out personal information. Banks, ISPs, associations, retailers, wireless and other telecommunications carriers use it to enhance, extend and share customer relationships with publishers and entertainment providers.

Among Clickshare's other news-industry partners are Belo Corp. (Dallas Morning News), the Denver Post (MediaNews Corp.), the Minneapolis Star-Tribune (McClatchy Corp.), Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News, Comtex News Network Inc., China Online Inc., uclick.com (Andrews McMeel/Universal Press), The Worcester Telegram & Gazette (New York Times Co.), The Everett Herald (Washington Post Co.), and the Corpus Christi [Texas] Caller Times (E.W. Scripps Co.)

Clickshare's investors include Sawgrass Seacoast Investors LLC, the University of Massachusetts, Comtex News Network Inc., MultiService Corp., and private individuals, including founding executives of PeopleSoft Inc., and the former publisher of the Philadelphia Inquirer and Chicago Sun-Times. Its executives, board and advisors include veterans of the publishing and financial-services industries.

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FOR MORE INFORMATION:

For American Cadastre Inc.
Christine Delawder / 540-896-9952 / [cdelawder@amcad.com]

For Clickshare:
Edward Bride 413-442-7718 [edbride@clickshare.com]
Bill Densmore, 413-458-7000, ext. 801 [densmore@clickshare.com]