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To: s. bateh who wrote (4276)	11/17/1998 4:56:00 PM
From: Rocky Reid	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 10072

>>!Clik is standard now that it is oem'ed by all......love it.<< Vapor! is OEM'd by NO ONE... Except for an obscure MP3 device which may never see the light of day due to court proceedings. "Plans to explore" and "Endorsements" are all Vapor! has. And these mean $0.00 to Iomega's top or bottom line. Bateh's Ultra-Hype and lies will not go unchallenged.

To: s. bateh who wrote (4276)	11/17/1998 4:56:00 PM
From: s. bateh	Respond to of 10072

GREAT NEWS!!!!!Must listen to vcall!!!!MAJOR COST REDUCTIONS CONTINUE, PRODUCT SHIPPING (USB LAST FRIDAY), 6SIGMA WORKING, VIRTUAL COMPANY WORKING..... RECORD/PLAY BEING SHOWN AT SHOW!!!! CLIK! WILL BE HUGH!!! MUST LISTEN ALL

To: s. bateh who wrote (4276)	11/17/1998 5:03:00 PM
From: s. bateh	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 10072

RESELLER, ALL: They all love the clik! the people from emerald research say "it looks real good and its ready" very impressed with the new oem's and the market it will address....with all the cost savings this qt. and new product shipping and clik! this and next qt. 1999 will be the year of IOM.....30 is closer and closer!!!!!!!imho

To: s. bateh who wrote (4276)	11/17/1998 5:17:00 PM
From: Zakrosian	Respond to of 10072

s.b. - While I enjoy your posts, comments like Clik is standard now that it is oem'ed by all. don't exactly enhance your credibility. Just which OEM has announced that it is including Clik! in one of their existing products? Here's what I've read this week: Sharp: Iomega Corporation (NYSE: IOM - news) today announced that the Clik! Mobile Drive will be compatible with Sharp's newest line of mobile products including the Actius Ultralite Notebook PC, Mobilon Pro and Mobilon TriPad Handheld PC. Compaq: Iomega Corporation (NYSE:IOM - news) today announced that Compaq Computer Corp. (NYSE:CPQ - news) has signed a non-binding letter of intent to bundle Clik! Mobile Drives with their C-series handheld PC (HPC). Agfa: Agfa plans to begin exploring building Clik!™ drives into future digital imaging products. NEC: We Support the Clik!™ Mobile Drive as an excellent portable solution for our MobilePro™ product line of handheld PC's...We have designed our MobilePro products as an effective PC Companion that allows users to do more with less while they are away from their computer. Clik! drives will help us achieve that goal by providing a low cost portable storage option. and so on. None of these seem much different from last year's endorsements, though they at least show that Clik! is still on-track to becoming a real product. No offense intended, but your hyperbolic statements in support of IOM are not that different from Rocky's knee-jerk criticisms of IOM. I think both of you offer a worthwhile perspective on IOM's prospects, but the way you present those views makes it too easy to dismiss them. I know this sounds like I completely lack a sense of humor and I'm sure you were just trying goad the bears, so I apologize; however, I'm finding IOM's inability to deliver on the promise of Clik! disconcerting. If I recall, the assumption last year was that the big announcement after that daily countdown was something along the lines of Kodak's announcing a digital camera with a Clik! built in. It just doesn't seem that a year should have elapsed after that build up without some substantial development.

To: s. bateh who wrote (4276)	11/17/1998 5:22:00 PM
From: eric larson	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 10072

Record/Play(tm) "...the Zip disk of the digital future can be used as a VCR for the Internet" Iomega Announces Record/Play Technology Initiative November 17, 1998 LAS VEGAS--(BUSINESS WIRE) via NewsEdge Corporation -- Iomega, Liquid Audio and SoundStone Join to Move Storage from Passive to Active Giving Content Providers and Consumers Control, Privacy and Protection Iomega Corporation (NYSE:IOM) today announced Record/Play(tm) a broad technology initiative designed to provide a secure channel for the distribution of content and intellectual property over the Internet. The Record/Play initiative will allow developers to use the IomegaReady(tm) Toolkit to develop applications capable of delivering intellectual property securely from the Internet to Iomega media. Using Record/Play(tm), developers will be able to encrypt music, content or data to Iomega storage products using a copy protection technique that will bind the content to the disk. The content can then be replayed only from the disk to which it was recorded. Any attempt to reproduce the recorded content will not be readable from another disk. Additional technological innovations that are designed to improve and extend this initiative will be announced over the next several months. Iomega's Record/Play(tm) is designed to provide leading Internet and entertainment companies a secure channel for all copyright-protected Internet content -- such as music, video, research, software, audio books, webcasts and games. The technology initiative has the potential to cross Iomega's Zip(R), Jaz(R) and the upcoming Clik!(tm) product lines. To kick-off Iomega's Record/Play(tm) initiative, Iomega has signed a non-binding letter of intent with internet leaders Liquid Audio, the leading developer of secure online music and audio delivery systems, and SoundStone.com, a leading online music retailer. The companies jointly announced today Tunus Collectus(tm), an Internet music-of-the-month club. Tunus Collectus is designed to allow customers to go to the SoundStone.com web site for a monthly download of music singles and is expected to be available early next year. Liquid Audio and SoundStone.com are the first developer and retailer/content provider, respectively, to recognize the potential of Iomega's Record/Play technology initiative. Tunus Collectus will use the Liquid Music Player and a Record-to-Zip(tm) download button to allow users to download the singles from SoundStone.com's web site to a Zip(R) disk. ... Through the IomegaReady(tm) Toolkit, developers and content providers can allow their downloadable information to be secured to a Zip(R) or Jaz(R) disk so the information can only be played back from that specific disk. The technology will use an encryption scheme to secure content to Iomega disks. It has the ability to turn the 19 million Iomega Zip drives that have been shipped into playback machines for the Internet. "Zip consumers are moving beyond simply storing and transporting the information they create, to actively surfing the Net for information they want to save and use again and again," said Edward D. Briscoe, president, personal storage division, Iomega Corporation. "The Internet provides the next great frontier for the Zip disk, offering a treasure trove of information and entertainment that Zip customers can download, Record-to-Zip and play back anytime. In essence, the Zip disk of the digital future can be used as a VCR for the Internet." Third party industry research indicates that Iomega's Record/Play(tm) initiative will be appreciated by consumers and content producers. "We engaged Yankelovich Partners to conduct a study of Internet users and more than 80 percent of them indicated that they would use this product," said Jim Taylor, chief marketing officer, Iomega Corporation. "Moreover, 72 percent of those Internet users already use Iomega technology. Our solution is designed to protect the rights of producers and give control, privacy and, most importantly, content to consumers." ... source: businesswire via NewsEdge (...bold and italics emphases added) ---------- Note: In Vcall interview from "next to the ladies room at COMDEX" is indicated 45 singles per month will be available for free download and boundable to media piece used. hear Iomega 11/17 interview: vcall.com