Gaithersburg, MD -- July 7, 2004 - WeatherBug® today announced that it has bolstered its management team with two key hires and expanded its operations with new advertising sales offices in New York and San Francisco. WeatherBug provides live neighborhood weather from across the U.S. to broadcasters, federal and state government agencies, the National Weather Service, schools, consumers and businesses.

"Our company has reached an inflection point that warrants a significant investment in our physical and internal infrastructure," said WeatherBug’s President and CEO Bob Marshall. "The WeatherBug consumer product realized a 36% gain in online traffic in May, supported in part by our new partnership with AOL Instant Messenger (AIM). We are now the 18th largest online media property, according to comScore Media Metrix,* and through recent product launches and sales growth we are adding new locations and people to continue to support our revenue goals.”

Rich Spaulding has joined WeatherBug’s parent company, AWS Convergence Technologies, as its first Chief Financial Officer. He will oversee all finance and human resource activities to assure continued and steady growth. Spaulding was previously Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer at ePresence, a security and identity management services company recently acquired by Unisys.

While with ePresence, Spaulding led the company’s overall financial, legal and administrative organizations. He played an integral role in the company’s IPO of its Switchboard Internet subsidiary in 2002, which raised nearly $100M to support future expansion. During his 14 years with the company, he had responsibility for the company's financial and information technology operations, as well as legal function, and has extensive merger and acquisition experience.

WeatherBug also added Pete Celano to the management team as Vice President of Marketing for its consumer division, also a new position. Celano is an Internet veteran of two Maryland firms. In the mid 1990’s he was Internet Group Manager for FileTek. Later, in 1998, Celano founded and then ran DashCenter, Inc., an Application Service Provider for rich media offering B2C and B2B infrastructure for video and audio streaming.

Finally, WeatherBug opened two new advertising sales offices in New York and San Francisco. The new offices are designated to bring the company closer to its many advertising clients on both coasts.

About WeatherBug®
WeatherBug (weatherbug.com) ensures that individuals, schools, businesses and communities always get the most precise live weather conditions, the most relevant reports, and the earliest weather warnings to safeguard their property and their lives. WeatherBug owns the world's largest weather network, which has more than 7,000 live sensors and over 1,000 cameras that generate neighborhood level reports every second, not just every hour. This network powers various products and services, including: WeatherBug, the number one weather Internet application, with over 39 million registered downloads, streams live neighborhood conditions to its home and work users; WeatherBug Media Services, which delivers live weather information to over 80 million U.S. households through partnerships with more than 100 local television stations; WeatherBug Education, which provides engaging weather information and educational tools to schools and colleges, including an online learning program for K-12 schools called WeatherBug Achieve; and WeatherBug Professional Services, which uses the company's unique weather network and software to provide high-value solutions for vertical industries such as energy, transportation, and first response. WeatherBug is a brand of AWS Convergence Technologies, Inc. (aws.com).

* Per comScore Media Metrix, 17.7 million unique visitors in May 2004, a 36% increase from the month before.