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To: JayPC who wrote (19385)	2/3/2000 10:53:00 AM
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EXCITE@HOME AND LIPSTREAM(TM) LAUNCH INTEGRATED VOICE AND TEXT CHAT INTO ALL OF EXCITE CHAT EXCITE CHAT ROLLS OUT INTERNATIONALLY, beginning in Italy REDWOOD CITY, Calif. and CUPERTINO, Calif., Feb 3, 2000 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- Excite@Home (Nasdaq: ATHM), the leader in broadband, and Lipstream, leaders in live voice for eBusiness, announced today the integration of Excite@Home's very popular voice chat into all of the Excite.com chat rooms, allowing consumers the ability to speak to and hear each other from around the world. Additionally, the new Excite Chat will be extended internationally, with the initial launch in Italy that offers Italian consumers a completely in-language context in whichto chat. (Photo: newscom.com ) "We've had tremendous user response to Excite Voice Chat," said Eric Jorgensen, vice president of communities, Excite@Home. "Today's expansion of voice into all of Excite's text-based chat rooms truly brings the web to life for users. Our technology partner, Lipstream, has been able to anticipate and quickly evolve their services to fit our needs and is enabling us to expand our offerings for consumers internationally." Excite Chat with Voice Excite Chat with voice is the newest version of Excite's successful download chat product. In addition to text chatting in a full-featured virtual world, Excite.com community users are now able to speak to and hear each other. This product is based on Lipstream's software development kit, which enables developers to add the power and immediacy of live voice to any existing application. Excite Chat has gone a step further than other Web-based chat by providing free voice conferencing with concurrent web page viewing. Offering increased personalization, Excite Chat lets users select a variety of avatars. Users also have the ability to select from a variety of avatars, graphical representations of visitors in a chat room that Excite@Home has to offer, or they can customize their own, offering increased personalization. Excite's current text chat users will find that the new integrated chat has been designed to make the upgrade easy to download and use, while providing high-quality communication free of charge plus the cost of the users ISP. The new voice enabled version of Excite Chat is available on Excite at chat.excite.com and all that is needed is a Windows(R) 95, 98 or NT system with speakers and a microphone. Excite Chat in Italian To allow Excite Italy users to chat and communicate in ItalianLipstream has localized its service to voice-enable Excite Italia (www.excite.it/voicechat). If the user is on an Italian system, Lipstream's service recognizes this and converts all messages and user prompts to Italian. "The latest voice chat products for Excite are proof that live voice communication is a compelling way for users to interact on the Web," said Matt Jones, president and CEO of Lipstream. "Our ability to customize our service, regardless of existing applications or language, substantiates our position that opportunities for live pc-to-pc voice on the Internet are limitless." About Excite@Home Excite@Home, the leading broadband media company, offers media services through Excite (www.excite.com) and Blue Mountain Arts (www.bluemountain.com), and broadband subscription services through @Home (www.home.com) and @Work (www.work.home.net). The company has a worldwide footprint of 72 million cable homes under long-term contract. Excite@Home's MatchLogic division (www.matchlogic.com) offers marketers industry-leading digital advertising capabilities including rich media production, ad and email services, and database analysis all integrated into a complete solutions package. For more investor information about Excite@Home, please call our stockholder services hotline at 888-924-9248. About Lipstream Networks, Inc. Lipstream is the leading Internet voice service provider for eBusiness. Lipstream enables live voice communication for eCommerce, customer service, education, entertainment and community applications. Lipstream is privately held and venture-backed by Sequoia Capital. Lipstream is located in Cupertino, Calif., and can be found on the Internet at www.lipstream.com and contacted via telephone at 408-861-8228. NOTE: Excite@Home, @Home, @Work, Excite, Blue Mountain, the stylized "@" logo and MatchLogic are trademarks of or licensed to At Home Corporation and may be registered in certain jurisdictions. All other brand names are trademarks of their respective owners. Lipstream and the Lipstream logo are trademarks of Lipstream Networks, Inc. Other trademarks and registered trademarks are the properties of their respective owners.