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To: John Madarasz who wrote (6501)	6/21/1999 10:52:00 AM
From: Mark Oliver	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 10081

It's all about eardrums Listen to the music: CDNow, Mpath By Thom Calandra, CBS MarketWatch Last Update: 10:36 AM ET Jun 21, 1999 Also: Options Watch SAN FRANCISCO (CBS.MW) -- It's all about eardrums. Prepare for voice wars and score one for Lipstream, a privately held Silicon Valley company that is developing voice chat technologies for the Web. The venture-backed company says Excite@Home (ATHM: news, msgs) is its first customer. Companies such as Lipstream and Mpath Interactive (MPTH: news, msgs) are competing for Web portals that offer users voice technologies. Lipstream says its patent-pending version of voice chat is easy to use, downloads in a minute and is available at voicechat.excite.com. All you need is a Web browser, some speakers and a microphone. Oh yeah, and someone to talk to. Prepare for voice wars. Mpath runs www.hearme.com and www.mplayer.com -- two of the many voice communities that allow Web users to interact with their voices. Those two Web sites have more than 3 million registered users combined. Audio technology developers will find themselves fighting a scrappy battle for the big Web portals that want to build eyeball -- and now, eardrum - share. Mpath's live audio product is a part of Yahoo's (YHOO: news, msgs) pager.yahoo.com, an instant messaging product. Mpath is publicly held after it sold 3.9 million shares at 18 each in an April IPO. Since then, the stock has been on a rollercoaster: as high as 51 1/4 and as low as 16 7/8. (See chart above.) More (but not related) at cbs.marketwatch.com Regards, Mark PS, It's amazing to see this stock trade. Where do all these sellers come from? Is there a market maker shake out happening here? Seems like the news is good. What gives?