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Technology Stocks : Data Race (NASDAQ: RACE) NEWS! 2 voice/data/fax: ONE LINE! -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: RWB who wrote (27785)	2/8/1998 10:16:00 PM
From: Kashish King	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 33268

RWB, there's nothing comical about the situation for RACE and I suggest you give some serious thought to the notion that conditions are deteriorating, not improving. You claim that only the stock price supports my view, what drives the stock price? Let's get serious here. Computer Telephony Integration (CTI) The computer and the telephone are coming together, and USB gets them connected with Plug and Play flexibility. USB enables new CTI applications to be incorporated within PBX, basic rate ISDN, or analog Public Switch Telephone Network (PSTN) systems found in offices and homes. The PC enables users to run Telephone Application Programming Interface (TAPI)-based applications that run through USB to the telephone hardware and then to the PBX or PSTN systems. CTI will enable such new applications as a user-friendly Graphical User Interface (GUI) for telephones; personal PC "mailboxes" for e-mail, fax, and voice mail messages; automatic screen display of caller databases; PC-based Interactive Voice Response (IVR) systems; PC-based telephone directories; and PC-based call-management services, such as automated call-screening and call-forwarding. Full text: developer.intel.com "Now that most PCs are shipping with USB as a standard feature, the opportunity for telephony to unite with the computer has never been greater. Nortel is positioned to take a lead with its USB product lines." Full text: developer.intel.com The system offers automated speech recognition, interactive fax, fax-on-demand, fax broadcasting, text-to-speech conversion, multilingual support... Full text: developer.intel.com BTW, the niche players are coming out of the woodwork: konexx.com