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Technology Stocks : Fonix:Voice Recognition Product (FONX) -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Nancy McKinney who wrote (2319)	7/17/1999 9:28:00 PM
From: cdtejuan	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 3347

Nancy, of course it is not necessarily true that only fundamentals drive a stock. If this were true, than I would have a hard difficulty explaining why fonx jumped up from 0.25 to 1.20 without anything fundamentaly changing, i.e. without new deals.... But my point is that there is no deus ex machina or glorious deal waiting to rescue fonx, and for you more important the price. Fact is, that every stock can be manipulated up or down. Markets have much to do with psychology, yes, one just has to take a look at the internuts, where it seems to be a sort of sign of strength, if the companies are fundamentaly in a heavy loss zone, meaning that some investors (private or institutional) don't look at all at the earnings/PE/market caps.... ;-) It's just very crazy sometimes to see how companies are valued differently, GMGC for example has definite great partners and potential, lacking earnings like internuts, and trades down. Lhsp has strong earnings, seems sound, at least compared to fonx or internuts, but is shorted down since months. Of course fundamentals or TA are not always ruling. My point is more that fonix had a chance, missed it, and the market knows it. MM's play their games with fonx, perhaps its like how a cat enjoys a game with a dead mice.....they can play and make money even out of a dead stock, playing it long and short, but this means nothing about a stock's value at least in a positive sense. I don't know how long you have been an investor in fonx. I think you may very well have a different perspective if you bought your first position at $1 instead of lets say 6. Maybe you averaged down so you can fell comfortable with being invested in fonx. However I don't believe that a stock like fonx can keep the hype/fraud up much longer- I mean maybe you new fonx investors are a sign that they can? ;-) But ok, obviously this shouldn't be my problem.;-) I apologize for engaging in a discussion on this. i understand myself that an ex long has few credibility especially when he changes sides, (LOL), and I still lack the crystal ball. I know myself how i at the time thought about those poor frustrated victims that bought fonx at $10 and i thought I was smart because my average in was 50% lower... :-) Good luck and best wishes, Juan

To: Nancy McKinney who wrote (2319)	7/18/1999 3:09:00 AM
From: flickerful	Respond to of 3347

thought this of interest... Voice mail chimes in on portals RocketTalk and Virtualplus will roll out the latest iterations of free voice mail service next week. By Christa Degnan, PC Week July 16, 1999 2:09 PM PT The latest service coming to a Web portal near you is a familiar one: voice mail. Startup vendors, along with Web portal providers, are rolling out services and software to let users add voice clips to e-mail messages for playback through Windows utilities or proprietary desktop players. Next week, newcomers RocketTalk Inc. and Virtualplus will announce free audio messaging services. Next month, Pagoo Communications Inc. plans to launch a voice mail system in partnership with a major portal. All three announcements follow a similar rollout from Excite@Home (Nasdaq:ATHM), which formed Excite Voicemail with General Magic Inc. last month. Managers of electronic businesses said the offerings are perfect for personalized communications and answering queries where e-mail won't do. "Voice mail is definitely something that is coming up as an interest to Internet users," said Jack Bashian, director of business development for Books.com, which will offer the RocketTalk solution. "Instant messaging has been very popular, and [voice mail] just takes it to the next level." The latest from RocketTalk RocketTalk, of Fullerton, Calif., is rolling out the latest generation of its free voice mail service to portals and affinity sites that will offer voice mail along with free value-added services such as e-mail and calendaring. RocketTalk lets users send voice mail as e-mail attachments that can be played back through the thin-client RocketTalk player. The latest version of RocketTalk is based on a new version of Vocibus 1.5, a Unix-based messaging architecture that lets portals track users and customize the RocketTalk player for the site. The co-branding will enable portals to put ads and links to their sites with the voice mail to reach a wider audience. "It is a great way for users to communicate, and it extends our reach as a site," said Paul Meek, vice president at AutoWorld.com., which recently partnered with RocketTalk to offer the service to its portal users. Meanwhile, Virtualplus, based in New York and London, is launching its free messaging service, called Messagejet, in the United States next week, following a rollout in the United Kingdom in May. Talking with the big guys Messagejet lets users leave messages via phone or fax and works with any Post Office Protocol 3 e-mail account. Sources said the company is in talks with a major portal to add Messagejet to the site. Similarly, Pagoo will launch a voice mail offering with a major portal next month, but company officials in San Francisco declined to name the site. Pagoo plans to follow the voice mail offering with four new voice-related services this year. The first, dubbed Pagoo Hear Say, will automate attaching voice messages to e-mail. Another, called Pagoo Message Mate, will let users capture and forward voice mail, for example, from a home phone number to a PC at work. "Voice mail is attractive because people can use a microphone faster than they can type, and it lets people send personalized messages, especially across long distances," said Steve McClure, an analyst with International Data Corp., in Framingham, Mass.