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To: Gerald R. Lampton who wrote (22562)	2/4/1999 10:30:00 AM
From: MoneyMade	Respond to of 24154

Check this out dude this is hot: Notify Technology Corporation Announces Visual 'Got Mail' Technology For E-Mail Subscribers Using Their Home Telephone Lines SAN JOSE, Calif., Feb. 2 /PRNewswire/ -- Notify Technology Corporation (Nasdaq: NTFY - news) today announced its development of visual ''Got Mail'' technology that will allow home users to see that they have new e-mail without turning on their computers. Notify is marketing the technology to large telephone companies and Internet Service Providers (ISPs) that would offer the visual ''Got Mail'' service to their dial-up e-mail customers as a value-added service. ''Dial-up e-mail users have long suffered the 10-minute ritual of powering on the computer, waiting for the modem to connect with the ISP, opening the e-mail application and checking for new messages -- and all too often to discover that there aren't any,'' said Paul DePond, president and chief executive officer of Notify Technology Corporation. ''Equally frustrating, e-mail users forget to check their mail -- sometimes for days at a time -- missing important messages. ''Notify Technology Corporation has developed the visual 'Got Mail' technology to help reduce this e-mail user frustration,'' he said. As telephone companies and ISPs embrace this technology, the visual ''Got Mail'' service will be marketed to the more than 80 million ISP and free web-hosted dial-up e-mail users nationwide. ''The initial response to our technology has been overwhelming,'' said DePond. ''Telephone companies are especially excited about this technology because it promises a possible visual notification solution for future Unified Messaging services. ''We are negotiating with several telephone companies and ISPs to begin trials of products that incorporate this technology,'' he said. This revolutionary new technology has been designed to operate with all POP3 and IMAP4 e-mail systems, which are the most commonly used by ISPs, as well as other proprietary e-mail systems hosted by some of the largest providers in the world. Notify Technology Corporation is currently working to enhance the technology to operate with free web-based e-mail providers, the newest trend in residential e-mail service. Notify Technology Corporation, headquartered in San Jose, California, develops and manufactures telephony adjuncts, devices that add value to business and residential telephone services offered by telephone companies. The Company's best-known product is the MessageAlert, a visual message waiting indicator for telephone company voice mail. The Company also sells a Centrex-based auto attendant product that is marketed under the names Centrex Receptionist and Plexar Receptionist by various telephone companies as part of their Centrex product line. Notify Technology sells its products through OEM relationships to major telephone companies and telephony product retailers. Statements in this press release regarding product development and introductions, and future revenues are forward-looking statements within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, and are subject to the safe harbors created thereby. Actual results could differ materially from these forward-looking statements as a result of the following factors: business conditions and growth in the telecommunications industry and general economics, both domestic and international; lower than expected customer orders and timing of actual orders; the timing and extent to which telephone companies adopt, initiate and promote programs involving the Company's products; competition from other suppliers of telephony adjunct devices; changes in product mix or distribution channels; technological difficulties and resource constraints encountered in developing new products; and additional factors discussed in the Company's public reports filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission. SOURCE: Notify Technology Corporation More Quotes and News: Notify Corp (Nasdaq:NTFY - news) Related News Categories: internet, telecom 3.6Million shares outstanding..

To: Gerald R. Lampton who wrote (22562)	2/4/1999 12:14:00 PM
From: Daniel Schuh	Respond to of 24154

The videotape is starting to sound like the famous Netscape meeting. First it was all Mark Andreeson's fantastical invention, then we went through a bunch of other lines without ever getting a coherent account of what Microsoft actually was claiming took place. Or was the final line, "yeah, we did that, so what?" In this context, it seems appropriate to repeat the old chestnut: Oh, what a tangled web. . . Cheers, Dan.

To: Gerald R. Lampton who wrote (22562)	2/4/1999 3:06:00 PM
From: Daniel Schuh	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 24154

Judge Questions Microsoft Videotape Evidence nytimes.com Again, the ironic take from the NYT, excerpts for entertainment only: The Federal judge hearing the Microsoft antitrust case openly questioned the reliability of video evidence the company had presented in court and called the situation "very troubling." Some see trouble, others see Standard Microsoft Business Practice, he notes dryly. In a tense, packed courtroom, the Microsoft Corporation suffered its second embarrassing setback in two days, stumbling yesterday and staggering today. A few minutes after the judge's criticism, Microsoft tossed in a white towel for the day. A Microsoft lawyer asked to approach the bench, and the judge agreed to end proceedings for the day to let Microsoft regroup and try again Thursday. All nighter time for a few proud Microserfs. I hope Bill doesn't call in poor Slivka, he's suffered enough. Tall, white-haired and soft-spoken, Allchin allowed that the tape had problems, but not ones that fundamentally undercut his testimony that removing the browsing software hurt Windows. "I'd be glad to bring in a machine and show you," Allchin told the judge. "This demonstration hasn't turned out very well." After the court session, Microsoft admitted that it was at fault for producing a flawed tape, but insisted it was an honest mistake. "We make very good software, but we didn't make a very good videotape," said William H. Neukom, the Microsoft senior vice president for corporate and legal affairs. The "sucks less" contingent would question the first half of Neukom's assertion, of course. But Neukom's just the attorney of record, anyway. Yet the e-mail messages were cast in terms of tactics intended to help Microsoft "win" the browser battle "against Netscape." In one e-mail written on Dec. 26, 1996, Allchin wrote, "I don't understand how Internet Explorer is going to win," adding, "My conclusion is that we must leverage Windows." In another sent to Allchin in March 1997, Jonathan Roberts, a Microsoft marketing executive, wrote that tightly integrating Windows with the browser would make "Netscape a nonissue -- a superfluous product for all but the most committed Netscape user." When asked about such messages, Allchin said that Microsoft certainly did compete with Netscape, but the main way it did so was to innovate and improve its leading product, the Windows operating system. At one point, Allchin noted that words like "tie" and "leverage" are terms used loosely at the company -- not with the legal implications of a monopoly case in mind. Judge Jackson pointed out playfully that "tie" was a term "we use too," though more seriously. "It's certainly got us in a lot of trouble," Allchin said of the e-mail language. "This is my first time in court. I'm learning a lot." Poor Allchin, I wonder why he's taking all the heat while old "Air Supply" Maritz got off so easy? Maybe it's his name. Leading with it, or taking it on, who can say? Cheers, Dan.