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To: Knight who wrote (36183)	7/20/2000 11:56:46 AM
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also; on MXIP, a very optimistic news article: "Non-PC Appliances are the Wave of the Future" by Leah Beth Ward. "Products that eliminate pointing, clicking, dropping, dragging and other manual gyrations will be highly prized, experts say….Although analysts say that demand for personal computers is still healthy, International Data Corp. predicts Internet access devices to exceed PCs in sales by 2002. IDC estimates that the worldwide market for Internet Appliances will exceed $17.8 billion in 2004." Comment: Regardless of the trends or when the transition may occur, MAX Internet is poised to capitalize on this booming trend of video communicating from both the MAX i.c.Live 3600 card for the desktop and the MAX i.c.Live VCS. In a May issue of ISP Business News, an article was written by Eric Ladley titled "Without 'Killer App,' DSL is Doomed. Consumers Want More than Warp Speed E-mail". He starts out by stating, "In order to drive the mass acceptance of broadband, analysts agree that Internet service providers will have to find some type of application that makes the service attractive to the end user." He goes on to discuss content delivery and distribution companies and their role in this market including various ISP companies. He concludes by quoting Bill Kirkner, CTO at Prodigy "Ultimately devices that enable greater communication will be the most popular, such as intelligent Internet appliances. Audio streaming will most likely come first because people will be able to listen to their favorite songs. Neither audio nor video streaming will become widely deployed until broadband is more readily available. Prodigy sees video conferencing as a key service to be offered over DSL." Comment: MAX Internet Communications offers a product, through the VCS, that ISP and other telecom providers can in turn provide as an incentive or offering to their customers creating an application and a need for broadband. As I have said to many of you, broadband is great for getting and sending your e-mails quicker, but people will want the opportunity to fully utilize these higher speeds which opens the market for Internet video communications. MAX offers that opportunity not only to the end user, but more importantly to the telecom companies to provide a value added service that gives them a competitive edge. Forbes.com feature article "Web Conferencing on the Rise" by Kathleen Cholewka states "Looking for the next big "e-thing"? It could finally be conferencing". She discusses how although the industry has had less than stellar performance that several companies are gearing up for IPOs in anticipation of its rising. Collaborative Strategies, a research firm in San Francisco, estimates that online conferencing will grow to $1.8 billion by 2002. In addition, Web conferencing is predicted to eclipse instant messaging as the fastest growing interactive service among big businesses over the next year and a half, according to Forrester Research in Boston. Comment: MAX's technology enables web conferencing, video e-mail or any other type of video communicating a reliable and quality alternative for both businesses and consumers. The Internet has clearly expanded our ability to communicate to anywhere in the world, and MAX offers a cost effective, high quality solution to benefit from this growing industry.