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January, 2007

Connective Technologies Announces Team-Up Download Contract With Safety Insurance

Houston, TX, (BusinessWire) January 23, 2007, Connective Technologies announces their contract signing with Safety Insurance Company for using the TEAM-UP Download™ product, promoting better, easier to use interface services for their agencies.

James Berry, Vice President of Insurance Operations comments, "Safety is committed to streamlining, simplifying, and providing cost effective web-services like Connective's TEAM-UP Download for making it easy for agents to do business. Our agency community and customer service teams will benefit greatly from TEAM-UP's robust functionality. Team-UP achieves our goal for once-and-done processing of daily downloads and equips agents with a self-service capability to retrieve single and/or groups of policies in real-time."

"As Safety strives for delivering the best possible service to its agencies and policy holders, we are excited that TEAM-UP Download will perform such an integral role in making it easy, simple and intuitive for agents to do business with Safety," added Dic Marxen, Chairman of Connective Technologies. "Further TEAM-UP product expansions, planned later this year, will promote additional types of real-time transactions such as electronic correspondences, alerts, and inquiries."

TEAM-UP Download is an Internet-secure offering being leveraged by P&C carriers in providing accessibility to over 15,000 trading partners with more than 35 different agency management systems throughout every region in the United States. Now in its third major release, the product has matured to ensure agencies have a seamless migration from other download processes. The improved self-reliant features such as single-policy, real-time archival retrievals by the agents, improved group management distribution and tracking features that ease and accelerate the registration process for both agencies and carriers have been implemented with TEAM-UP's Service Oriented Architecture. This environment ensures a seamless fit into carriers' existing agency portals. It also incorporates a single-process entry point at the agency for accessing multiple carriers downloads.

About Safety Insurance Company:
Safety Insurance was founded in 1979 with a belief that we would succeed as a company if customers were given the best possible service. Safety insurance is a leading provider of private passenger automobile insurance in Massachusetts. In addition to private passenger automobile insurance (which represented 80.3% of our direct written premiums in 2005), they offer a portfolio of other insurance products, including commercial automobile (10.8% of 2005 direct written premium), homeowners (7.2% of 2005 direct written premiums), dwelling fire, umbrella and business owner policies (totaling 1.7% of 2005 direct written premiums). Safety's direct written premium for all product lines in 2005 was $649 million. We support our network of independent agents by providing them with state-of-the-art tools that make it easy to do business. Together with our agents, Safety Insurance remains a premier insurance provider in Massachusetts. We'll continue this tradition into the future. Safety has consistently received an "A" rating from A.M. Best. Please visit our website at: http://www.SafetyInsurance.com.

About Connective Technologies, Inc.:
Connective Technologies, Inc. is a leading provider of e-Commerce business solutions for the property and casualty insurance industry, specializing in Internet interface solutions for carriers and their agents. Connective has used its many years of experience with leading agency management systems and traditional batch EDI to pioneer the approach, which has helped it become the leading provider of bridging and Internet-based interface solutions in the industry. Connective provides implementation services for its flagship products, TEAM-UP Upload, Download, and Data Translation Services, as well as Site Development and Web Services. To learn more about Connective products and services, contact Dic Marxen at (817) 377-0815, by email at: dmarxen@connective-edi.com, or visit our website at www.connective-edi.com.