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Technology Stocks : WavePhore (WAVO)- VBI fed WaveTop for WebTV -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Ian deSouza who wrote (1396)	4/30/1998 8:39:00 PM
From: mavenwatch	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 2843

Windows CE (at this point anyway) which the article in Cnet says will be used in future versions of webtv box does not support Wavetop.

To: Ian deSouza who wrote (1396)	5/1/1998 8:09:00 AM
From: Doug (Htfd,CT)	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 2843

WavePhore and Warner Bros. Online: Working Together to Broadcast Entertainment & Kids Content to Home PC Users Doug says: If you have kids using the Net for entertainment, and don't want them tying up the phone line, this may be of interest to you. It also demonstrates that WAVO is not dependent upon Windows 98. quote from biz.yahoo.com PHOENIX, May 1 /PRNewswire/ -- WaveTop, the leading provider of multimedia content delivery services to home PC users and a business unit of WavePhore, Inc. (Nasdaq: WAVO - news), and Warner Bros. Online, a division of Time Warner Entertainment Company, L.P., today announced a strategic relationship in which WaveTop will broadcast content from the Warner Bros. Online website to home PC users. Warner Bros. Online will provide a wide range of entertainment- oriented content for consumers of all ages. Using the WaveTop wireless home PC service, any TV tuner-enabled PC will be able to receive the Warner Bros. Online content, free of charge, without signing up for a special service, logging onto the Internet, or tying up the phone line. ''Working with Warner Bros. Online allows us to bring some of the assets of the largest Hollywood studio to several WaveTop Channels,'' said David E. Deeds, Chairman, President, and CEO of WavePhore, Inc. ''Warner Bros. Online, is one of the most heavily trafficked studio sites on the Internet, and we look forward to bringing their high quality entertainment to the WaveTop audience.'' Warner Bros. Online content will be included on the KidsTop and FunTop channels of the WaveTop service. KidsTop offers fun, interactive and educational content from brand-name, children's oriented programmers; FunTop offers the latest samples of games, music, comics and best-selling books. Warner Bros. Online will include multimedia content such as movie trailers, cartoons and games. ''Warner Bros. Online is widely recognized for providing users of all ages with some of the most exciting and entertaining content being generated on the Internet,'' said Jim Moloshok, Senior VP of Warner Bros. Online. ''WaveTop broadens our reach and ensures that our content is easily accessible to home PC users without the hassle of using a dial-up modem.'' WaveTop's PC data broadcast service works by embedding data streams into the unseen portion of existing broadcast television signals using the Vertical Blanking Interval (VBI). WaveTop has partnered with PBS National Datacast, Inc., to broadcast data over the television signals of its PBS member stations. Using a simple browser interface and a broadcast ready PC (a standard PC with a built-in TV tuner or equipped with an add-on TV tuner card), users will interact with automatically downloaded information, entertainment and software. WavePhore previously announced the launch of it's free service for Windows 95 on April 6, 1998. In addition, the WaveTop software will be included in the Windows 98 operating system, which is expected to begin shipping in late June, this year. Users will be able to easily install the WaveTop software directly from Windows 98. ABOUT WARNER BROS. ONLINE Warner Bros. Online, a division of Time Warner Entertainment Company, L.P. is consistently in the top three of the most-trafficked studio sites on the Internet, according to both Media Metrix and RelevantKnowledge. In addition, Warner Bros. Online is the number two site on the Web in concentration of Women 18-49, the demographic audience most desired by advertisers. The company's focus is on producing entertainment programming for the Internet and commercial online services, with sites accessible at warnerbros.com. ABOUT WAVEPHORE WavePhore, Inc., (Nasdaq: WAVO - news) is the global leader in connecting people with compelling information in the office and at home. The corporation is headquartered in Phoenix, AZ and composed of three business units: WavePhore Networks, WavePhore Newscast and WavePhore WaveTop. WavePhore Networks, the industry leader in data broadcasting provides flexible, high-speed data delivery for information publishers, to more than 80,000 sites worldwide. WavePhore Newscast, is the Web's premier business infosource for enterprise- wide use. WavePhore WaveTop is the first free, advertising-supported, nationwide data broadcast system to deliver multimedia content to broadcast ready PC's in the home. Additional information on WavePhore is available via the Internet at wavephore.com, wavetop.net, wavo.com and newscast.com. Certain of the above statements regarding WavePhore constitute forward- looking statements, which may involve risks and uncertainties. Actual results could differ materially from such forward-looking statements as a result of a variety of factors, including, but not limited to, technology changes, competitive developments, industry and market acceptance of new products and services, risk factors listed from time to time in WavePhore's SEC filings. SOURCE: WavePhore, Inc. Doug (long WAVO) Net Nuggets: Thoughts on ECommerce dougsimpson.com