Jim - here is the article from Business Week, August 26th:
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. 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 l8 minutes of recording time and $599 for 36
minutes.
JFAX Personal Telecom, meanwhile, is rolling out a service that
delivers voice mail and faxes via E-mail. For $l2.50 a month,
customers are assigned a phone number and a virtual mailbox on the
World Wide Web that accepts standard phone calls and faxes.
Using JFAX's viewer software on their IBM-compatible PC or Apple
Macintosh (available at no charge at www.jfax.net), customers
located anywhere on the Internet can reach out and listen to or view
messages retrieved from their mailbox.
Contact:
JFAX Personal Telecom
225 Lafayette St.
New York, NY l00l2
l-888 GET-JFAX
(212) 253-4000 fax
Web: jfax.net
or
Norris Communications Corp.
l2725 Stowe Drive
Poway, CA 92064
(619) 679-1504
Web: norriscomm.com
HOPE THIS HELPS.
Sharon |
