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To: Chris Parrinello who wrote (3328)	8/5/1998 11:24:00 AM
From: Mike Gordon	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 10081

i wouldn't be surprised if the connection is that MOT has licensed MagicTalk for their service.

To: Chris Parrinello who wrote (3328)	8/5/1998 11:26:00 AM
From: Frank Wechsler	Respond to of 10081

<"It's not like there is some vast market for this service. There are only so many executives, VPs, and CEOs in the world."> The service is not just for execs, VPs, and CEOs. Anybody in business who does not have a personal assistant and needs to keep in touch with clients, contacts, etc. while on the road would need this service. I would imagine any company with a sales force could make incredible use of the product and save money at the same time.

To: Chris Parrinello who wrote (3328)	8/5/1998 12:03:00 PM
From: Kurt Goebel	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 10081

Chris, Analysts have stated that the market would grow up to 3.4 billion over the next few years. Motorola stated that they expect to do hundreds of millions of dollars in revenue. General Magic sees a target market of 5 million customers for Portico. They see many more millions in the consumer space and the business application space. Even capturing a small part of these markets would be very good. Kurt

To: Chris Parrinello who wrote (3328)	8/5/1998 12:52:00 PM
From: Jane Hafker	Respond to of 10081

Again, I brought up Motorola having something of a soulish love for the company. And a short term investor when it sent from 50 to 80, as usual, and I jumped nervously and only made a little on that whole move. A MOT story. I'm new to Phoenix and working as a temp until I settled into a great job in the desert near my house. Ideal. Anyway, I'm walking down the hall and a tall dark and GQ gorgeous guy who looks about 30 steps out of an office. I'm real friendly, don't know what I said, but while walking down the hall we both ended up doing a couple of little "Off to see the wizard" steps on the yellow brick road thing, stepping together in a happy silly manner, and it was just one of those lovely little moments you never forget. At that time he was THE CEO. Five plants, by the way. And if you thinnk that didn't happen, the CEO of my next company walks out to the blast oven parking lot one lunch time with the Heads of the whole 5 division of products company, and he's in one of his unusually happy moods, and with 4 stuffed shirts he yells to me at the line in the roach coach, "(My name), I'm leaving for awhile, so keep an eye on everything will you?" And seeing that he's obviously in an incredibly good mood, and waiting for a good comeback, I pound my palm with the finger of my other hand dramatically and shout, "Mike, don't worry, I've got the whole place right here." And they all roar happily like Japanese in a parody commercial. Other employees stare in bewilderment, I remember. So. Loved Arizona. And you think being happy and a little loosened up now and then doesn't work, well, he went on to something 10 times bigger with the airbags and was over the entire industry for the first five years. Anyway, I was mindtripping on the good old days as we spoke and missed half of it. wasn't really paying attention. Could you please find something out about this? Call MOT. They are very accessible. Should even have a l-800 for sales, and work from there. Their IR is very investor friendly too, I believe.