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To: Boplicity who wrote (7290)	12/7/1999 1:16:00 PM
From: Scrapps	Respond to of 9236

S3's Diamond Multimedia and Covad Provide One-Stop Shopping for Consumer DSL and Home Networking VANCOUVER, Wash. and SANTA CLARA, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec. 7, 1999-- Diamond Multimedia, a division of S3 Incorporated (Nasdaq:SIII - news), and Covad Communications (Nasdaq:COVD - news), today announced development plans for an online program that will empower consumers to purchase Covad's consumer high-speed Internet access and Diamond's HomeFree ADSL residential gateway from a single destination. Diamond's Digital Dream Home Web site (www.thedigitaldreamhome.com) will provide a one-stop shopping approach to digital subscriber line access and home networking. S3's Diamond division makes the industry's top-selling home networking products, which allow consumers to connect multiple PCs over home phone lines. Covad, the leading national broadband services provider utilizing DSL technology, provides high-speed, always-on Internet access to consumers' households at speeds up to 25 times faster than a 56K modem. According to a recent report by Cahners In-Stat Group, worldwide ADSL modem shipments grew 74 percent sequentially in Q3 1999, and are expected to top 1.2 million shipments worldwide by the end of 1999. biz.yahoo.com