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To: Clever Nick Name who wrote (11549)	6/21/1999 8:25:00 AM
From: Jenne	Respond to of 29970

EXCITE@HOME FIRST PORTAL SERVICE TO OFFER TOLL-FREE NUMBER AND ONE-STOP RETRIEVAL OF ALL MESSAGES WITH VOICEMAIL LAUNCH VOICEMAIL AND FAX Messages Delivered to Your Email with a Toll-Free Number and Personal Extension PR NEWSWIRE - June 21, 1999 08:01 REDWOOD CITY, Calif., Jun 21, 1999 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- Consumers can now receive their voicemail, email and faxes all at one single location withtoday's launch of Excite Voicemail, Excite@Home (Nasdaq: ATHM) announced today. The service lets consumers receive voicemail and fax messages from their own email account with a toll-free number service and a personal extension. Excite Voicemail marks another milestone supporting the company's vision of "All Band, All Device, All the Time" and complements the company's newVoiceChat service (see related announcement). Excite@Home also announced a $6 million minority investment in General Magic, the back-end provider of the service. (Photo: newscom.com ) VOICEMAIL, FAX and EMAIL -- WHEREVER YOU ARE Excite Voicemail funnels all voice, email and fax messages into one Excite email account, letting Excite users retrieve all of their messages from one location, voicemail.excite.com. To sign up, users simply go to voicemail.excite.com and create a personal extension of their choice to go along with a toll-free number for the service. Unlike other offerings, Excite@Home Voicemail is available cost free to callers and users anywhere in the United States. Excite users can receive up to approximately 60 messages and 10 faxes per month. Anyone calling a user's Voicemail telephone number within the free service area can leave a private voice mail or fax that is then immediately sent to the user's Excite Mail account. Users can then retrieve voicemails, faxes and emails by simply logging on to their Web-based Excite mail account. Voicemails can be heard by clicking on audio files and faxes can be read as attachments. "Our goal is to give people convenient tools to control and manage their daily lives," said Joe Kraus, senior vice-president, content, Excite@Home. "Today's means of communication -- voicemail, faxes and emails -- can be overwhelming to people. Excite Voicemail bridges the gap between traditional means of communication and the ubiquity of the Web to provide the ultimate convenience of receiving all of your messages in one place." Excite Voicemail uses General Magic's patent-pending magicTalk voiceuser interface. magicTalk allows people to interact with Voicemail as if they were having a conversation with a friend. Callers leaving a voice message or sending a fax to a Voicemail subscriber won't have to memorize anycommands. They interact with the service using their own spoken words, and the service "talks back" in a friendly way to confirm information or offer assistance.