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September 27, 2004 - Polar Bear signs agreement with Impatica Inc

September 27 2004 (Halifax, NS) - Polar Bear Corporate Education Solutions, a division of CrossOff Incorporated (TSX:OFF), announced today that they have signed an agreement with Impatica Inc. to resell Impatica’s software that allows organizations to create effective online communications through custom content development.

“Over 80% of corporate education is informal learning, therefore we are excited to add Impatica’s suite of software products to our eLearning tools and applications portfolio,” says Jerry Van Olst, Vice President Business Development, Polar Bear Corporate Education Solutions. “Using Impatica, customers can quickly and easily publish their own proprietary content created in the world’s most common presentation authoring tool, Microsoft PowerPoint. For many of our customers, eliminating the need for plug-ins, reducing file size, securing content, and ensuring that the training can be viewed across multiple platforms is a key delivery consideration.”

Polar Bear now has the ability to sell, Impatica OnCue, Impatica for Director and Impatica for PowerPoint as a value-add to our clients who plan to develop custom content by integrating video, presentation and audio or as simple as using Microsoft PowerPoint software for online delivery. Online training courses can be created by subject matter experts with out reliance on IT specialists thereby deployed sooner and at a reduced cost.

“Partnering with Polar Bear presents exciting opportunities to expose our products and services to Canada’s largest organizations, says Jim Bell, Vice President of Corporate Sales for Impatica Inc. “PowerPoint is the number one authoring tool for content development and, Impatica for PowerPoint and Impatica OnCue make it possible to impaticize this content for hassle free Internet delivery.”

About Impatica Inc.
Located in Ottawa Canada, Impatica Inc. was incorporated in March of 1998. The company has operations in Washington, Boston, Princeton and London, England. Growing steadily, Impatica now employs approximately forty people. Since its leading product, Impatica for PowerPoint, entered the market in April 2001 approximately 2,000 organizations including some 1,500 colleges and universities and several hundred corporations have adopted Impatica products to educate, train and communicate more effectively with hundreds of thousands of people every day.
About Polar Bear Corporate Education Solutions

Polar Bear Corporate Education Solutions, a CrossOff company, is one of Canada’s largest corporate IT training providers with more than 20 facilities coast to coast. With more than 20 years experience in the design and delivery of technology and management training, Polar Bear offers integrated learning methodologies designed to meet the needs of Canadian businesses. More information is available on the company's web site at www.polarbear.com.

PowerPoint is a registered trademark of Microsoft Corporation. Impatica is a registered trademark of Impatica Inc.

For further information, please contact:
Denis Aucoin
Marketing Manager
902-496-0508
daucoin@polarbear.com