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To: Tom Hua who wrote (200)	6/23/2000 12:37:00 PM
From: allen menglin chen	Respond to of 409

Tom, Just bot LBRT @ 24s today. BTW, CRA/HGP human genome news next Monday should give bios some life later today usatoday.com

To: Tom Hua who wrote (200)	6/23/2000 1:06:00 PM
From: eichler	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 409

Greetings Tom, I'm in on this stock too. Agree that Aol should lift this issue some time in intermediate/near future. Am expecting/hoping for an upside break-out from the narrowing wedge on the daily charts...at least to fill the gap from the recent plunge from 42.00 area. I've been day-trading this one very nicely; buying at the bottom of the wedge and selling the break-out point. Currently long at 24.00 but have scalped enough up and down to cover another plunge if I'm wrong. Good trading! Eichler P.S. the stochastics and ADX indicators have been working very nicely on the 60 min. charts. (IQ charts)

To: Tom Hua who wrote (200)	6/30/2000 2:18:51 PM
From: allen menglin chen	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 409

Tom, u think LBRT will be hot in July since the AOLTV set-box is ready in mid-July? But the $200-300 box is more expensive than the TV itself! :). ============================================================ AOL to start Interactive TV in some markets By Derek Caney NEW YORK (Reuters) - America Online Inc., the world's largest Internet services provider, said Monday it would start offering interactive television features, such as an online program guide, chat features and e-mail, through set-top boxes. The initiative marks the official launch of the long-awaited AOLTV strategy to combine elements of the Internet with television. The new service will be offered in selected markets on a set-top box made by Philips Electronics using software made by Liberate Technologies Inc.. ``The potential for AOLTV is immense,'' said Wit SoundView analyst Jordan Rohan. ``The reality is that it will take a while to build the service into something consumers want. We've been hearing promises of interactive television for years, which is why I'm taking a wait-and-see attitude.'' Programming for the service will come from such cable television stalwarts as E! Entertainment Television, QVC, The Weather Channel and Court TV, as well as newer names like Oxygen Media The service will first be offered in selected markets including Phoenix, Sacramento and Baltimore for $14.95 a month for AOL subscribers and $24.95 a month for nonsubscribers. AOL Interactive Services President Barry Schuler told Reuters last week the accompanying set-top box would cost $200 to $300. The set-top box and wireless keyboard will only be sold at Circuit City Stores and through AOL itself starting in mid-July, the company said in Monday's statement. The announcement was greeted with skepticism by some industry analysts who question whether AOL customers will be able to make the shift from the inherent passivity of watching television to the interactivity of the Internet. ``Overcoming the inertia of the Lazy Boy recliner and end table, complete with a cool crisp Pabst Blue Ribbon, to engage in hyperactive interactivity with the TV set still seems the dream of marketeers rather than a reality we expect to see in the near future,'' said Susan Billheimer, an analyst with Zona Research. ``We wonder why AOL believes it will succeed where a host of others, including Microsoft and Interactive TV, have failed,'' Billheimer said. ``True, AOL has a large customer base to work with, but getting people to use the Internet on TV requires a fundamental shift in behavior...that we do not believe will occur in the near future.'' Last week, AOL announced TiVo Inc., which sells a VCR-like box that uses a computer hard drive to record TV programs, would offer AOLTV subscribers the ability to create their own TV schedule and customize live television shows. Under the terms of the deal, AOL will take a $200 million stake in TiVo. Purveyors of interactive television have been trying to gain traction in consumers' minds for years, while leaving some with various degrees of skepticism. ``If any company can do it, AOL-Time Warner can do it,'' Wit SoundView's Rohan said. ``But the big questions are how big is it going to be, how popular will it be and how much are people going to be willing to pay for it.'' One of the highest profile failures in interactive television came in the mid-1990s courtesy of AOL's bride-to-be Time Warner Inc., which experimented with a system in Orlando, Fla., that provided services like video-on-demand, online shopping and video games via a television and cable TV converter box. The offering failed to capture a wide consumer following and chilled interest in the technology for several years. ``What AOL and many other companies are doing is taking baby steps on the path to combine the ubiquity and instant nature of the Internet with the telegenic impact of television,'' said Joe Mandese, editor of the Myers Report, a media insider's newsletter. ``But the technology is not quite there yet,'' he added. ''So companies have to exploit what they have. What AOL has is the greatest online penetration of anybody -- 23 million members, a great brand to leverage and these interim technologies. The next step, he said, will be to exploit the assets of Time Warner, which include the Turner Broadcasting cable channels such as CNN, TBS and among others. One of AOL's stiffest competitors in the market is Microsoft Corp.'s Web TV, which offers many of the same services that AOLTV is announcing, but has yet to catch on with consumers. ``The main problem with Web TV is that many people try the product, but few people stick with it,'' Rohan said. ``In consumers' eyes, it's often seen as an introduction to the Web. AOLTV will need to differentiate itself.'' AOL's Schuler told Reuters last week: ``We are not trying to convince people who have not embraced an interactive lifestyle to make their TV a connected device. I think that's a hard thing to do. This is a product for AOL members.'' AOL shares fell 5/16 to close at 54-3/8 on the New York Stock Exchange against the backdrop of the European Commission's decision to open a four-month probe into its merger with Time Warner. dailynews.yahoo.com