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Dialog Now Offering Streaming Real-Time News Through Enhanced Dialog NewsEdge^® Service

Users Can Now Monitor Relevant Breaking News Without Disrupting Workflow

CARY, N.C., USA (September 29, 2004) — Dialog, a Thomson (NYSE: TOC; TSX: TOC) business and a leading worldwide provider of online-based information services and integrated information solutions, said today that it is now offering streaming live news to subscribers of its Dialog NewsEdge® service.

Dialog NewsEdge users can now monitor breaking news stories throughout the day without disrupting their workflow.  Based on individual user profiles, Dialog NewsEdge filters thousands of wire services, pre-publication newspapers and other sources of news reporting from around the world, delivering relevant stories to a user's desktop instantly.  Scrolling news headlines can be read through a floating window or may be accessed through a tab labeled "My Live News." 

The new feature is offered without additional charge to Dialog NewsEdge subscribers.

Dialog NewsEdge is a Web-based personalized news monitoring and current awareness platform designed for senior management; legal departments; competitive intelligence specialists; corporate communications and public relations departments; marketing managers; investor relations professionals; consultants and others who need access to daily news; breaking stories and a historical archive of articles and reports.

"With the addition of scrolling real-time news to Dialog NewsEdge, our clients  can now  track breaking news that could have an impact on their businesses — without having to be distracted from other responsibilities," said Cynthia Murphy, Dialog senior vice president, strategic marketing. "That enables them to know the day's critical news before the competition and to not be caught off guard by developing events, and, if necessary, to best manage crises more effectively. The live news feed can be a powerful catalyst for making better business decisions faster."

Murphy noted that specific uses of the new live news feed include monitoring media activity related to a user's company or its competitors, tracking mergers and acquisitions news, observing product and brand changes, reviewing earnings announcements, staying current with court rulings and regulatory announcements, and general awareness of industry events.

The content available through Dialog NewsEdge is indexed by a Dialog-proprietary taxonomy called SmartTerms^SM.  More than 855,000 terms are tagged and classified in the system, an extensive roster designed to ensure accurate distribution of new reports and highly relevant search results.  A subscribing organization's internally created documents, such as materials produced by a corporate communications department, may also be indexed through SmartTerms and distributed through Dialog NewsEdge.

Dialog acquired NewsEdge Corporation, developers of the NewsEdge service, in 2001. Murphy noted that the new live news feature, as well other enhancements to be announced later in the year, represent the continued leveraging of the technical and editorial expertise acquired with NewsEdge Corporation.

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About Dialog and The Thomson Corporation
Dialog, a pioneer in developing the technology behind electronic information retrieval, is the world leader in providing online-based information services to organizations seeking competitive advantages in such fields as government, business, science, engineering, finance and law.

The online services provided by Dialog — offered through the Dialog ®, Dialog Profound ®, Dialog DataStar™, Dialog NewsEdge ® and Dialog Intelliscope^SM brands — give users the ability to precisely retrieve data from more than 1.4 billion unique records, accessible via the Internet or through delivery to enterprise intranets. Searchable content includes articles and reports from thousands of real-time news feeds, newspapers, broadcast transcripts and trade publications, plus research reports and analyst notes providing support for financial decision-making, as well as in-depth repositories of scientific and technical data, patents, trademarks and other intellectual property data. Information professionals and end-users at business, professional and government organisations in more than 100 countries prize Dialog services for their depth and breadth of content, precision searching and speed.

Based in Cary, N.C., USA, Dialog has operations in 27 countries. Dialog (www.dialog.com) is a business of The Thomson Corporation (NYSE: TOC; TSX: TOC). With 2003 revenues of US$7.6 billion, Thomson (www.thomson.com) is a global leader in providing integrated information solutions to business and professional customers.

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