Another one of Rande's excellent picks...HEAR up to over 14 today on low volume. News came out a few days ago, the market seems to like it. With some PR and volume, next resistance is 17, then 25.
Empowering Everyone With Live Voice: New HearMe Products Offer Live Voice Solutions Across Levels of Web Integration
"Drop In" Voice Product Provides Instant Chat Room Deployment for FREE
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 4, 1999-- In its ongoing mission to empower every Web user and Web site
with real-time capabilities centered around live voice, HearMe (Nasdaq: HEAR), formerly Mpath, today announced the first comprehensive suite of technology products designed to enable live voice on any type of Web site.
HearMe's new solutions -- HearMe(TM) VoicePresence, HearMe SDK, HearMe Starter Applications, and HearMe POP.X(TM) 2.0. -- range from a full deployment platform for hosting live voice applications, to a simple device enabling voice chat to a Web site in minutes for FREE.
Web sites across the 'Net will be able to take advantage of HearMe's proven technology and years of expertise operating live voice services to tap the rapidly growing market for applications that enable users to communicate, collaborate, and build community in ways that are more personal and interactive.
Working with HearMe's broad range of live voice technologies, virtually any Web site publisher has the ability to bring live voice to their site -- no matter how simple or complex the application. HearMe's comprehensive product line offers solutions for:
-- "Instant" Voice with HearMe VoicePresence: For Web sites that want a simple and cost-efficient solution for adding live voice areas to their sites, HearMe VoicePresence, is a FREE, lightweight, live voice chat application that can be "dropped in" to Web pages in minutes.
-- "Integrated" Voice with HearMe SDK: Have an application that needs to be voice-enabled? HearMe SDK is a software development kit (SDK) that Web site developers can use to add live voice to existing products.
-- "Jump Start" Voice With HearMe Starter Applications: HearMe Starter Applications, are a collection of ready-to-use and customizable, voice-enabled applications -- including instant messaging, chat, whiteboards and pagers -- for Web developers who want to launch powerful voice integrated products quickly.
-- "Building" Voice With HearMe POP.X 2.0: For Web companies who want to build and host their own interactive applications, including those with voice, HearMe POP.X 2.0, is a complete platform for building, deploying, and scaling voice-enabled interactive applications capable of supporting millions of users.
Web publishers leverage HearMe POP.X to bring their own robust applications to market in a fraction of the time and cost it would take to develop them "from scratch."
"With this product line-up, our aim is to make it possible for any type of Web site and any Web creator -- no matter what their level of expertise -- to bring live voice
to their sites," explained Rob Csongor, general manager and vice president of HearMe's technology products group.
"Using our many years of experience operating live voice services, we created a broad product line that offers Web site creators the products to make live voice a reality on their sites. Whether it's a quick and easy drop-in solution or full-scale integration, HearMe's technology products allow Web publishers to incorporate the level of sophistication they demand based on their own time, cost, and resource constraints."
Live voice and real-time group interactivity are empowering people with new ways to communicate, collaborate, and build community on the Internet. Today's Web site publishers are learning that live voice is a truly compelling application that drives usage and brings a variety of benefits to other Web applications. Using a simple computer microphone, people can use voice to share affinities, interests and ideas in ways that are truly personal and interactive. With the ability to impact a wide variety of businesses, voice chat can bring new levels of interactivity to virtually any type of Web application including: E-commerce, customer service, entertainment, live auctions, distance learning, and other businesses-to-business applications.
About the HearMe Live Voice Product Line
HearMe VoicePresence
With HearMe VoicePresence, Web site publishers drop in a small software device to Web pages in minutes. The device automatically links to HearMe-operated servers and offers scalable, reliable real-time voice capabilities. A consumer-friendly application, HearMe VoicePresence features an intuitive interface that requires minimal installation (it downloads in less than 40 seconds on a 28.8 K modem) and effort by the consumer.
With a PC, microphone, and speakers, consumers can easily join a variety of voice activities. Site developers can enjoy the benefits of adding voice communications to their Web site, without worrying about the infrastructure required to scale it to thousands of simultaneous users. HearMe VoicePresence supports both Netscape and Internet Explorer browsers and will not conflict with most corporate firewalls. HearMe VoicePresence is free and will be available later this month for general distribution. An evaluation version is available now; for more details interested parties should go to the HearMe Web site: www.hearme.com/company/products.
HearMe SDK
With the HearMe Software Developer's Kit (SDK), sites can add live voice communications to existing applications in a matter of days. The SDK is lightweight -- adding less than 100K of data to most applications. Applications created with the HearMe SDK are immediately voice-enabled by connecting to the HearMe operated servers. The HearMe SDK supports both Web and stand-alone applications through JavaScript and ActiveX interfaces.
Yahoo! Inc. uses technology from HearMe to incorporate live voice capabilities into Yahoo! Messenger, Yahoo!'s popular instant messaging and notification product. This effort, in part, led to the development of the HearMe SDK. "Live voice adds a compelling, personal aspect to Internet
communication that appeals to our users," explained Brian Park, senior producer, Yahoo! "We were able to take advantage of HearMe's experience operating voice services to offer a voice application that requires no additional download and is simple and easy to use."
The HearMe SDK is available now for select customers, and can be found on the HearMe Web site at www.hearme.com/company/products. General availability of
the HearMe SDK is scheduled for the fourth quarter of 1999. Pricing is based on a monthly service fee, and is tiered according to the desired number of concurrent users.
HearMe Starter Applications
HearMe Starter Applications are a set of highly customizable, ready-to-use, voice-enabled applications, including instant messaging, paging, chat and whiteboard.
Allowing developers to add voice interactivity to a Web site in a matter of days, the Starter Applications also incorporate system level management and scalability features to make operating, managing, and scaling these applications simple. The HearMe Starter Applications product is scheduled to be available in the fourth quarter of 1999 and is priced based on the number of concurrent users. A free 16-user evaluation license will be available at www.hearme.com/company/products.
HearMe POP.X 2.0
POP.X 2.0 is a comprehensive technology platform for customers who want to build and operate their own interactive applications, which can easily be voice-enabled using the HearMe SDK. POP.X provides a complete set of tools for managing back-end systems, scaling, and managing fault tolerance to allow developers to focus on the issues involved with creating a great user experience.
The product assures high system availability through fault tolerance and redundancy, resulting in a system with no single point of failure. POP.X also simplifies site
administration, offering: a single user interface for monitoring numerous applications, proactive tools that alert administrators to system problems, and remote system
configuration capabilities. POP.X 2.0 also integrates easily with legacy systems through built-in industry standard interfaces. HearMe POP.X supports a range
development platforms including Java, C/C++, and Shockwave.
Razorfish, a leading digital communications company that provides Web design, development and system integration for leading companies, has chosen HearMe
POP.X as the Web development platform of choice for building real-time interaction and live voice for their clients' sites.
"HearMe's POP.X is a robust and efficient platform that enables us to bring real-time interactivity to our clients' projects," said Todd Drake, director of technology at
Razorfish. "Not only can we use POP.X to create engaging online sites for our clients, but we can also apply it towards building corporate intranets for companies
communicating across wide geographic areas on shared projects."
POP.X 2.0 is available now at the HearMe Web site, www.hearme.com/company/products and is free for developers deploying applications with up to 16 peak
simultaneous users. Pricing for licenses above 16 concurrent users is based on concurrent usage.
About HearMe
HearMe is dedicated to reshaping today's Internet applications into real-time interactive experiences through which large groups of people can interact and
communicate using text, voice and video. The company develops, operates and licenses technology that enables real-time Internet communication and communities
where people can gather to share affinities, interests, or ideas.
Communication tools such as text chat applications and instant messengers are already incorporating HearMe's technology to enable real-time voice interaction
among multiple people. Internet companies will benefit from HearMe's ability to support a variety of emerging activities including live voice chat for online karaoke
and music recitals, distance learning, online training and multiuser entertainment. HearMe technology is also compatible with broadband video and other streaming
media applications.
The company operates its own real-time consumer Internet communities, Hearme.com(TM) and Mplayer.com(TM). Through HearMe Technology Products, the
company provides software products and services for leading third-party site operators building their own branded real-time communities. Companies working with
HearMe technology and services include Yahoo!, Macromedia, StarMedia Network, Fujitsu, GTECH Corporation, LG InterNet and CSK Sega. Founded in early
1995, HearMe is located in Mountain View, Calif. The company can be found on the Internet at www.hearme.com or reached at 650/429-3900. |
