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To: zonkie who wrote (2914)6/8/1999 3:37:00 PM
From: Josef Svejk1 Recommendation  Respond to of 3795
 
Chua further stated: ''We are also very excited about the acquisition of the website domain name, www.firstbingo.com, which we believe will have a very significant positive impact in the Internet community. We feel it is comparable to the acquisition of www.hotmail.com by Microsoft (Nasdaq:MSFT - news); www.icq.com by AOL (NYSE:AOL - news); www.netscape.com by AOL (NYSE:AOL - news); www.infoseek.com by Disney (Nasdaq:SEEK - news), (NYSE:DIS - news); and www.geocities.com by Yahoo (Nasdaq:YHOO - news), all of which have definitely resulted in significant Internet impact for the parent companies.''

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Early adoptees of the NGI include: 3Com Corporation (Nasdaq: COMS - news), Advanced Network & Services, Ameritech (NYSE: AIT - news), AT&T (NYSE: AT - news), Cabletron Systems (NYSE: CS - news), Cisco Systems (Nasdaq: CSCO - news), FORE Systems (Nasdaq: FORE - news), ITC^DeltaCom (Nasdaq: ITCD - news), IBM Corporation (NYSE: IBM - news), Lucent Technologies (NYSE: LU - news), MCI WorldCom (Nasdaq: WCOM - news), Newbridge Networks (NYSE: NN - news), Nortel Networks (NYSE: NTL - news), Packet Engines/Alcatel (NYSE: ALA - news), Qwest Communications (Nasdaq: QWST - news), and StarBurst Communications. Companies expressing interest include: GTE Government Systems (NYSE: GTE - news), Sun Microsystems (Nasdaq: SUNW - news), Yahoo! (Nasdaq: YHOO - news), America On-Line (NYSE: AOL - news), Amazon.com (NASDAQ: AMZN - news), and Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT - news).

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