EASTWICK COMMUNICATIONS WINS LEAGUE OF AMERICAN COMMUNICATIONS PROFESSIONALS (LACP) SPOTLIGHT AWARD

Eastwick-written bylined article featuring technology from client Nuance wins Honors" designation from LACP.

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EASTWICK COMMUNICATIONS WINS LEAGUE OF AMERICAN COMMUNICATIONS PROFESSIONALS (LACP) SPOTLIGHT AWARD

Eastwick-written bylined article featuring technology from client Nuance wins Honors" designation

REDWOOD CITY, CA (PRWEB) October 28, 2003 -- Eastwick Communications Inc. , one of Silicon Valleys top independent high-tech PR agencies, today announced the agency, along with client Nuance Communications (NASDAQ: NUAN), has been named a winner in the League of American Communications Professionals (LACP) 2003 Spotlight Awards Publicity Materials Competition.

Eastwick received the Honors" designation in the Bylined Article" category for Voice Handcuffs Monitor Offenders," an article Eastwicks Becky Quinlan wrote on behalf of Nuance and Nuance customer ShadowTrack. The article appeared in the February 2003 issue of Law Enforcement Technology. ShadowTrack is using Nuances Verifier voice authentication software for its speech-based home incarceration software, currently in use in five states. The Voice Handcuffs" article earned high marks for creativity, clarity and relevance.

According to the LACP, the 2003 Spotlight Awards Publicity Materials Competition drew more than 800 entries, an unprecedented number of materials representing a broad range of industries and organizational sizes...competition was exceptionally tough." Materials were judged in peer-level competitions based on narrative content quality, visual content quality, creativity, message clarity and message relevance.

For more awards information, and for a link to the article, please visit the LACP site (www.lacp.com): http://www.lacp.com/2003spotlight/C12.HTM.

About LACP

Established in 2001, League of American Communications Professionals (LACP) is an organization that encourages excellence in the practice of communications for all organizations: corporations, small businesses

non-profit organizations, educational institutions and government entities.

LACP believes that quality communications is the best brand differentiator available to an organization. Ultimately, the rise and fall of an organization's brand rests in the hands of its communications professionals. It is only with the highest-caliber communications expertise that organizations can reach their full potential.

It is LACP's goal to help facilitate discussion of best-in-class practices in communications and recognize those who demonstrate exemplary communications behaviors. For more, please visit www.lacp.com.

About Eastwick Communications

Eastwick Communications, now in its second decade as a top-independent agency in the Silicon Valley, delivers high-growth companies in technology markets the most experienced, creative, and bottom-line oriented public relations counsel available. Eastwicks success with Adobe Systems, Business Objects, Nuance, Mercury Interactive, Groxis, Cadence, BMC Software, SoftBook Press and Keynote testifies to a winning formula of savvy teams, market expertise, and creative quirkiness. Eastwick has extensive experience working with emerging, mid-size, and large companies in a plethora of technology markets including enterprise software, Internet/eCommerce, networking and storage. Eastwick has launched scores of new products, helped define and establish new product categories, broadened existing markets for established companies, and guided companies through launches, turn-arounds and IPOs. For more information, please visit www.eastwick.com.

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