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To: kamo who wrote (6687)	7/7/1999 11:54:00 PM
From: Mark Oliver	Respond to of 10081

All the portals need to build add on services to keep people's loyalty. Yahoo has purchased a company that will be integrated into their unified messaging strategy. It's not General Magic. On the bright side, General Magic is being built into the Excite@Home technology road map and this is a very exciting company as they have a great advantage through their high speed broadband presence. I would love to see GM working with Yahoo and all the others, but you can't win them all, at least not at first. This is an emerging program for Portals to do unified messaging. How it will unfold and what services will be the customer preference is yet to be seen. General Magic has some plans to go beyond all the announced offerings by incorporating mobile agents to act for you while you are off line. They have tested systems with eBay and they are working on projects soon the be announced with quicken.com. One can get a lot of fantasy going on how this will evolve, but for now we must just wait and see. At least, GM has a working product available for use today. They've had a chance to test it and they will certainly be adding many features people really need in the near future. It looks like they can have the most functional system way ahead of the competition. It's an exciting investment full of great potential. Regards, Mark

To: kamo who wrote (6687)	7/8/1999 12:11:00 AM
From: Mark Oliver	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 10081

Here's an interesting article about using advertising on cell phones to pay for services, rather than charging access fees. A shame that they never mention General Magic, but they do mention briefly GM's partner Wireless Knowledge. It's basically a PR piece for @Motion. These sorts of stories are written by the PR departments of the companies they profile. The reporters only seem to run them through a spell checker to verify accuracy. Still, the article is well worth reading. mercurycenter.com Regards, Mark