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To: Bouf who wrote (115885)	1/5/2000 12:23:00 PM
From: songw	Respond to of 119973

CNET: AOL To Show Set-top at CES; BOCI-AOL Licensing -May BOCI 7s CNET is reporting that America Online is expected to show off its new TV set-top boxes and Web terminals designed specifically for its online service at this week's Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas- "In what would be its first public move in this arena in nearly 10 months, AOL is expected to show off the fruits of its relationship with DirecTV, according to people familiar with the matter. Last March, the company announced it intends to provide interactive TV services in a deal with the digital satellite programmer. Hughes Electronics and Philips Electronics will make the boxes based on processors based around the Intel architecture and software from Liberate Technologies. It is not yet clear whether the companies involved will be publicly demonstrating the technology or showing it to retail partners behind closed doors, sources said. Neither AOL nor DirecTV was immediately available for comment." news.cnet.com Speculators may want to keep an eye on one small cap that, according to a release earlier this year, may be involved in the AOL set top. In May Boca Research BOCI announced that its reference design had been licensed for royally bearing use in the AOL boxes to be made by Philips- "Boca Research's Design Chosen for Philips' Co-Branded AOL TV Set-Top Box AOL and Philips select Boca Research's Reference Design BOCA RATON, Fla. — May 11, 1999—Boca Research, Inc.® (Nasdaq:BOCI) and Philips Business Electronics B.V., a division of Royal Philips Electronics (NYSE:PHG), today announced that Boca Research has licensed its reference design for set-top boxes to be used as part of a Philips co-branded, single-purpose AOL TV(SM) (as announced by America Online, Inc. (NYSE:AOL)).Under the terms of the contract, Boca Research will license its reference design for set-top boxes to Philips, on a royalty basis. Philips will utilize the expertise of Boca Research and the BocaVision™ ST2001 set-top box reference design; engineers from both Philips and Boca Research are adapting the Boca Research reference design to AOL's specifications. "We're happy to work with Boca Research," said Anne Borsch, vice president, AOL Devices. "Their leading-edge development of Internet connected devices and their key role in the design of the Philips first-generation set-top box are important elements of the AOL TV initiative." BOCI trading near 7 bocaresearch.com