This is from Burt off of Prodigy.
The following article appears in Business Week , Aug. 26, 1996,
issue on page 66A, received by subscribers on 8-16-96 approximately
1-3 days prior to newsstand availability. In the magazine there is
also a picture of the FlashBack and VoiceLink. The shipping date
will probably be before 9-15-96 and the media release is scheduled
for 9-15-96. Catalogue prices are lower than that quoted in BW but
when you're the only game in town, you shoot high.
Business Week: August 26, 1996
Department: Bits & Bytes
WITH THE NET, WHO NEEDS A PHONE MACHINE?
NEW SCHEMES ARE BECOMING available for sending and receiving voice
messages across the Internet--at considerable savings over
long-distance telephone services.
Norris Communications Corp. in San Diego has come out with a
version of its handheld Flashback digital voice recorder that works
with Internet E-mail (photo). First, you record speech on a
removable, chip-based memory cartridge. Then, you plug that
cartridge into a separate gizmo, which itself plugs into the PCMCIA
slot on your laptop computer. A program in the PC attaches voice
messages to outgoing E-mail. By using two popular file formats, .WAV
and .NFS, the messages can be listened to on any PC with the
appropriate software. The full setup is scheduled to ship in
mid-September, listing at $549 for 18 minutes of recording time and
$599 for 36 minutes.
I believe this will be the first of many press coverages on Norris
and its new product.
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