How about a deal with Bill??? Perhaps a hint here? From Yahoo!
>>Holy Cow I think we're gonna make it!
by: yagottabelieve 44578 of 44647
soundingboardmag.com
Mordy Rothberg, executive vice president of IDT's Net2Phone division (www.net2phone.com), says Net2Phone's IP telephony icon will be the only such icon appearing on the Netscape browser for the agreement's two-year duration. Net2Phone, however, remains free to make similar deals with other portals.
"I could do a deal with Bill," he says, referring to Bill Gates, chairman of Microsoft Corp. (www.microsoft.com), whose Microsoft Explorer browser is Netscape's main rival.
Net2Phone's icon appears on other web portals, but this deal is different, Rothberg says, because it bundles Net2Phone's software in the browser itself. In the other portals, a user must download the software before being able to make a call.
"What this does is really give us a tremendous reach," Rothberg says. "It really gives us ubiquity. When you see ads on the web for traditional [telecom] companies, they're usually for a service off the web. We're very web-centric. And then there's the e-commerce application. Forget Amazon.com, because if I want to buy a book I probably don't need a really sophisticated website. But if I want to buy life insurance, I probably want to talk to someone to close the deal."
For Netscape, the agreement with IDT signals another step in fulfilling its strategy of becoming a means of communicating through the World Wide Web, not just navigating around it.
"We want to be the leading provider of communications on the web," says Tom Tsao, group program manager for Netscape Contact, Netscape's suite of communications services. "That's why we changed the name of the browser from Netscape Navigator to Netscape Communicator."
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Net2Phone, however, remains free to make similar deals with other portals.
"I could do a deal with Bill," he says, referring to Bill Gates, chairman of Microsoft Corp. (www.microsoft.com), whose Microsoft Explorer browser is Netscape's main rival.
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Consider this - IDT is free to make this same deal with MSFT.
If that were to happen, by the stars and moon, and then you
throw in possibly AOL, and CBS, and BCST, RNWK, XCIT, YHOO,
GCTY, INSP, IBM, possibly Go.com, and others in the fold or about
to be, and you can see why Softbank would want to invest in
IDT/Net2Phone and why these shares could take-off the likes
of which will shock and satisfy at the same time. We could see
double digit gain days and a triple digit share price as we
become TRULY
THE ON-LINE PHONE COMPANY
yeah baby!
Disclaimer: Cheerleader at work. Please do your own DD. <<
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