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Technology Stocks : WAVX Anyone? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: cm who wrote (8992)	9/12/1999 11:15:00 PM
From: cm	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 11417

Wild Sunday Night Imaginings... This is plenty of rehashing... with a dash of something new at the end... (1): It seems a good thing--yes?--that Motorola and Sarnoff have a "joint venture" called NxtWave Communications. And that Wave Systems and Sarnoff have a "joint venture" called WaveXpress. And that Nicholas Negroponte is on the Board of Directors of both CharityWave and Motorola. And that both Motorola and Wave are members of the ISTPA. And that Peter Sprague and Nicholas Negroponte recently ponied up angel money for MetaMarkets.com. (2): It's nice that Sarnoff and Tektronics have worked on a product for Hughes DirecTV. And Wave Systems, years ago, worked on project with Hughes Electronics. And that AOL has invested in Wave (a small amount) and in Hughes Electronics (a big $1.5 billion amount.) And that the Sarnoff/Wave venture, WaveXpress has a significant AOL emeritus fellow on the board. And that AOL has a sworn mission to achieve ubiquity through its AOL Anywhere initiative. And that CBS is AOL's broadcast partner. And that a former CBS poobah is on the WaveXpress board. And that Hughes and AOL, presumably, have to go through WAVX because of its datacasting patent(s). And that that AOL Emeritus fellow actually specifically referenced those patents in the WaveXpress news release. (3): Now, wouldn't it be interesting if AOL, had in the back of its Dulles brain trust, an idea that they should buy a chunk of CompUSA and turn it into AOL's brick-and-mortar distribution point for all manner of new Internet devices and $300 PCs and maybe even AOL-ready TVs? But, it would be even better, I admit, if we get Embassy IIs in everything they brand. (The preceding is, of course, just rank speculation... but not COMPLETELY out of the realm of possibility.) Best Regards, c m