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To: Boplicity who wrote (154118)	2/18/2000 4:45:00 PM
From: Sig	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 176387

Shame be on these people, dialing in from work to monitor financial data (of all things) biz.yahoo.com Excepting Dell heads, of course, where they check the status of their orders....... <<<In the electronics category, Dell Computer Corp.'s (NasdaqNM:DELL - news) Web site showed the largest increase in reach at 268 percent between work users and home users.>>> Sig

To: Boplicity who wrote (154118)	2/19/2000 2:27:00 AM
From: stockman_scott	Respond to of 176387

~Way OT~...Greg: Here are a few jokes for you and other folks... islc.myway.com I especially liked the last one on the list <G>... <<25. Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day; teach him to use the Web and he won't bother you for weeks...>> Enjoy the Weekend. Best Regards, Scott

To: Boplicity who wrote (154118)	2/19/2000 12:29:00 PM
From: stockman_scott	Respond to of 176387

~OT~...Greg: GM and Sony are actually doing 'some interesting things' (even though they are WAY too mature for my investment tastes <G>)...Check this announcement out... <<Saturday February 19, 1:04 am Eastern Time INTERVIEW-GM says in broad talks with Sony By Edwina Gibbs TOKYO, Feb 19 (Reuters) - General Motors Corp (NYSE:GM - news), the world's largest automaker, is in broad cooperation talks with electronics giant Sony Corp , Mark Hogan, president of the automaker's e-commerce business unit said on Saturday. The two companies announced last month that future GM cars with Internet access would be using Sony data storage technology, and Hogan said GM believed this agreement would be the first of many agreements. ''I'd say the envisioned partnership is quite broad,'' he told Reuters in an interview, adding that it would not be limited to Internet access inside cars. The firms already have a close relationship, with outspoken Sony president Nobuyuki Idei taking a seat on the automaker's board last October. Hogan declined to elaborate on further tie-ups, but like GM, Sony is seeking to expand from being solely a traditional manufacturer into e-business. Recent moves include Sony's announcement of plans to branch into online banking and set up an e-commerce arm to distribute online games for its popular Playstation console. It also has an online brokerage unit. GM set up its e-commerce arm, e-GM, last August. It has since announced a tie-up with America Online (NYSE:AOL - news) and other companies to increase its Internet presence and is developing an online marketplace, called TradeXchange, for auto parts that brings manufacturers and suppliers together. Under last month's agreement with Sony, GM vehicles will use Sony's ''memory stick'' -- a data storage device that looks like a stick of chewing gum -- enabling drivers to download data into their cars. ''We want to enable GM vehicles to take memory stick data and be able to download that data, whether it be from a digital camera or MP3 player or from a DVD player,'' Hogan said. Sony is not the only Japanese company GM is pursuing. Racing against rival Ford Motor Co (NYSE:F - news), which is also building a similar parts marketplace, GM is wooing Toyota Motor Corp and other automakers to join its exchange. GM is willing to offer Toyota an equity stake in the venture but Hogan said GM would want to keep a majority holding. ''We would be the biggest part of it and as a consequence, just in terms of overall transactional participation, and it would seem appropriate that GM have the majority,'' Hogan said. Hogan, however, declined to comment on whether GM would be willing to let other automakers have an equity stake. GM also wants to use Toyota's website to market its vehicles in Japan and is willing to offer Toyota cars on its U.S. website. It plans a formal proposal to Toyota on the matter soon.>>

To: Boplicity who wrote (154118)	2/20/2000 9:36:00 AM
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OTOT Greg: The Jdsu voting will be held Feb 25th to increase shares from 600mm to 3 Bwillions, do you think the vote will pass?(g) Sig

To: Boplicity who wrote (154118)	2/23/2000 1:55:00 AM
From: stockman_scott	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 176387

~OT~...Greg: What do you think of Oracle's idea to form a new wireless company..??...FYI... <<By Mike Tarsala, CBS MarketWatch Last Update: 5:39 PM ET Feb 22, 2000 NewsWatch REDWOOD CITY, Calif. (CBS.MW) -- Hoping to tap a bigger share of the consumer wireless market, Oracle on Tuesday formed a subsidiary called OracleMobile. Larry Ellison, Oracle's chief executive, said the new wholly-owned subsidiary will focus on offering software and services around the company's wireless Web-access software, used for cell phones, two-way pagers and other hand-held electronics. Ellison expects the new company to use technology similar to that of Liberate (LBRT: news, msgs), the high-flying interactive television software startup of which Oracle owns 48 percent. Ellison says the wireless market could be even a bigger opportunity than interactive TV. "There are about 50 million wireless Internet phones in the world," Ellison said. "That's going to a billion in very short order." Within a few years, Ellison says the majority of people will access the Internet over phones, hand-held computers and what the company calls "Internet devices", instead of personal computers. The market for Internet information accessed over devices is expected to grow to at least $13.2 billion by 2003, up from $1.8 billion, according to the Boston-based market research firm Yankee Group. OracleMobile expects to tap it by starting an Internet site that gives away free wireless services from dozens of companies. The new business will focus mainly on products related to Oracle software that was released in October, called Portal-to-Go. It helps to link portable electronic devices to the Internet. The software is used by Internet and telecom services companies to offer business customers and consumers access to news, stock updates, banking and more. Oracle will offer many of the key services for consumers through OracleMobile, including the ability to access messaging, an address book, to-do lists and an online calendar. The services will run from Motorola's Mobile Internet Exchange software. Companies expected to offer services that work with the technology include MapQuest.com, restaurant-review service Zagat.com, online brokerage ETrade Group (EGRP: news, msgs), and bookseller Amazon.com (AMZN: news, msgs). Also, Motorola said it will offer joint marketing and help with developing added technology for OracleMobile. OracleMobile hopes to solve a big problem for companies that want to offer Internet services over Internet devices: Getting information in a format that can be viewed on the tiny screens. Most of the information that's being put on the Internet today is made to be displayed on larger monitors used with PCs. Oracle's new start-up hopes to help companies to quickly get the same information on mobile phones. Mobile competition The highest-profile competition Oracle will face in its wireless pursuits is Phone.com (PHCM: news, msgs), a company that went public in 1999. Phone.com offers its own software platform that formats information for reading on cell phones. From a split-adjusted offer price of $8 in June 1999, Phone.com now trades near 136. To compete with Phone.com, Oracle hopes to offer several ways to display information on phones. Oracle will sell the Portal-to-Go software so that companies can set up services themselves. Oracle also will offer companies the option of letting Oracle run a hosted service for them. What's more, Oracle will offer the option of running the service, while concealing the Oracle name from customers. "This technology will double Internet traffic, and probably triple Internet users," Ellison said. "This is great news: We get to sell more Oracle databases." Also, Oracle says it will offer a basic set of services for consumers, so they can access information over their cell phones via the Oramobile.com site for free. Oracle planned to offer services under a site called OracleMobile.com, but that name already is taken. Oracle says it's in discussions with the owner of the name to wrest it back. Oracle expects in time that it will sell some "premium" services to consumers for a fee. Oracle will collect revenue from the premium services. It also expects to get a take on every service that consumers use. In addition, Oracle will charge companies fees for hosting their services. And, of course, Oracle expects to charge licensing fees on the software it sells directly. The new company hopes to help rapidly expand the market for Internet access over devices, Ellison says. "We give consumers one place to go to get access to all (types of) services," Ellison said. "This is our whole reason for being. We can put applications on the Web and get them on any device. We can multiply the use of these Web sites by two, or by three." Oracle (ORCL: news, msgs) shares added 3/4 to 59 5/16 Tuesday.>>