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To: Jon Scott who wrote (12589)	2/26/1999 2:59:00 PM
From: Blitz	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 25711

MAJOR KANA NEWS!!!! Glad I held on! (BSNS WIRE) Kanakaris Closes First Deal With Time Warner Telecom for Pro Kanakaris Closes First Deal With Time Warner Telecom for Proprietary Computer Command Opcon System Business Editors and High-Tech Writers NEWPORT BEACH, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 26, 1999--Kanakaris Communications Inc. (OTC BB:KANA) Friday announced it has closed its first sale with Time Warner Telecom for its proprietary computer command Opcon system. The purchase order from Time Warner Telecom was received on Feb. 26, 1999. "We hope this is the beginning of a long and fruitful relationship with Time Warner Telecom for the delivery of our ergonomic, proprietary Opcon enclosure system. It also marks a new push to bring our wholly owned Desience division's hardware fixtures into the offices of the future," stated Chief Executive Officer Alex Kanakaris. The Kanakaris/Desience installation will be performed at Time Warner Telecom, 120th East 23rd Street, New York, N.Y. The 25 year old Kanakaris division Desience is an originator of modular console enclosures for high-end computer systems. "The mass utilization of the Internet and intranet by government agencies and Fortune 500 companies presents an expansive new opportunity for the next generation of our Opcon system," stated Kanakaris. Kanakaris Communications is a publicly traded company on the OTC Bulletin Board and the Frankfurt Stock Exchange. The company is a leader in the technology and delivery of donwloadable and "Read Only" content on the Internet. For further information on Kanakaris Communications (www.kanakaris.com), contact Colby Marceau, Director of Public/Investor Relations at 714/444-0560; fax: 714-549-8970; e-mail: info@kanakaris.com; 3303 Harbor Blvd. No. F-3, Costa Mesa, Calif. 92626. This news release contains forward-looking statements within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 (the "Act"). In particular, when used in the preceding discussion, the words "plan," "confident that,"believe," "expect," "intend to" and similar conditional expressions are intended to identify forward-looking statements within the meaning of the Act and are subject to the safe harbor created by the Act. Such statements are subject to certain risks and uncertainties, and actual results could differ materially from those expressed in any forward-looking statements. Such risks and uncertainties include, but are not limited to, market conditions, competitive factors, the ability to successfully complete additional financings, and other risks. --30--RMS/np* CONTACT: Kanakaris Communications Inc., Costa Mesa Colby Marceau, 714/444-0560 Fax: 714-549-8970 E-mail: info@kanakaris.com KEYWORD: CALIFORNIA INDUSTRY KEYWORD: PUBLISHING COMPUTERS/ELECTRONICS COMED PRODUCT INTERACTIVE/MULTIMEDIA/INTERNET Today's News On The Net - Business Wire's full file on the Internet with Hyperlinks to your home page. URL: businesswire.com * end of story *

To: Jon Scott who wrote (12589)	2/26/1999 3:20:00 PM
From: Joe Copia	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 25711

Could this be true on CRCP? post.messages.yahoo.com@m2.yahoo.com Joe PTG&LI !!! me thinks no but ya never know.

To: Jon Scott who wrote (12589)	2/26/1999 3:24:00 PM
From: Joe Copia	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 25711

THREAD ALERT: ENET Friday February 26, 2:35 pm Eastern Time Company Press Release Equalnet to Offer Free Long Distance, Telecommunications Advertisers to Pay Costs Subscribers Acquired by Internet/Network Marketing HOUSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 26, 1999--Equalnet Communications Corp. (NASDAQ: ENET - news) Friday announced it has signed a letter of intent to acquire The Intelesis Group Inc., a development stage company located in Miami, that has pioneered technology for advertiser sponsored long distance telecommunication services. FreeCaller(TM), the name of the new service, as well as the patent pending technology which supports the service, is designed to provide residential subscribers with one expressly selected 30-second advertising message at the beginning of each of their long distance telephone calls; calls lasting up to five minutes are then free. Intelesis plans to launch its service in the next 90 days and has had no revenues to date. Equalnet will exchange 2.5 million common shares for all of the assets of Intelesis, including the above referenced software. Additionally, holders of both common and preferred shares of Intelesis may receive additional Equalnet common equity based on the performance of FreeCaller(TM) in the future. ''This is an exciting new paradigm for the long distance business,'' said Mitchell H. Bodian, Equalnet's president and chief executive officer. ''Telephony is the only electronic communications medium not advertiser supported today. Radio, television, even the Internet, all depend on advertising as a major source of revenue. Telephony just developed according to a different model. We believe that there are numerous population segments that would welcome free long distance calls in exchange for listening to targeted advertising messages. Preliminary responses also indicate that many advertisers and their agencies believe FreeCaller(TM) is a great way to reach precisely targeted demographic groups, and provides an attractive and valuable alternative to more traditional media such as direct mail. FreeCaller's pinpoint targeting and interactive capabilities collapse the distance between advertisers and their customers.'' Consumers who wish to subscribe for free long distance telephone service from FreeCaller(TM) are required to complete a simple but extensive demographic survey for all the telephone users in the household and select Equalnet as their residential long distance company. The advertiser pays for the first five minutes of the user's long distance call in exchange for the consumer listening to a 30 second message from the advertiser before the call's completion. The ad played is specifically chosen by the FreeCaller(TM) system based on the unique demographic profile analysis conducted by FreeCaller's proprietary software programs. ''FreeCaller(TM) provides Equalnet with the opportunity to both refocus and reinvent itself with this innovative strategy,'' said Mark Willis, Equalnet's chairman. ''We believe that FreeCaller(TM) will be the exciting growth engine that helps reposition Equalnet in a unique telecom market niche.'' According to Bill Rhodes, Equalnet's newly appointed chief operating officer, ''Equalnet has the infrastructure in place to support a successful launch of FreeCaller(TM), as well as continue to provide the backbone for what I believe will be significant subscriber growth.'' Equalnet disclosed that FreeCaller(TM) will be marketed under several brand names through, among others, its wholly owned network marketing subsidiary, ACMI, as well as via Intelesis' recently created agent network. Subscribers will have the ability to enroll by telephone, mail and the Internet. Advertising sales will continue to be the responsibility of Intelesis management, who have extensive experience in alternative media marketing. Equalnet added that it may make the system available to other companies and affinity groups on a licensed basis. This news release includes ''forward-looking statements'' within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended and Section 21E of the Securities and Exchange Act of 1934, as amended. All statements other than statements of historical fact, included in this news release, including without limitation, Equalnet's business strategy, plans and objectives, are forward-looking statements. Although Equalnet believes that the expectations reflected in such forward-looking statements are reasonable, it can give no assurance that such expectation will prove to be correct. Numerous factors could cause actual results to differ materially from Equalnet's expectations, including without limitation, general economic and competitive factors. Additional risk factors are discussed in Equalnet's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended June 30, 1998, which is on file with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Readers should carefully review the cautionary statements and risk factors described in documents filed by Equalnet from time to time with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Contact: Equalnet Communications Corp., Houston Mitchell H. Bodian or Shaunna Jones (investor relations), 281/529-4611

To: Jon Scott who wrote (12589)	3/1/1999 2:36:00 PM
From: Joe Copia	Respond to of 25711

Sony, Toshiba and others propose security technologies and prep products -- Music group gets first take on Web standard Margaret Quan and Yoshiko Hara Los Angeles - Developers from as many as 100 companies were expected to meet with representatives of the powerful Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) here late last week to start work on a plan to deliver secure music over the Internet. While several companies, including Sony and Toshiba, planned to propose their own encryption approaches as the basis of tomorrow's Net audio players, many manufacturers-such as Creative Labs, Sony and Philips-are said to be preparing to enter this burgeoning market later this year whether or not the RIAA's Secure Digital Music Initiative (SDMI) has completed its work. The rapid growth of Net audio devices such as Diamond Multimedia's Rio PMP300 player is providing a heady inducement for systems makers to jump into the market. Companies that opt to bring out players before SDMI's decision risk developing a product incompatible with a standard that's backed by major content providers who are part of the group formed last December. They include BMG, EMI, Sony Music, Universal Music and Warner Music. In addition, the RIAA has sued-so far unsuccessfully-Diamond because its Rio uses the widely available MP3 (MPEG-1, Audio Layer 3) technology that compresses but does not copy-protect audio files. Mark Hardie, analyst at Forrester Research, estimates there may be 12 portable digital audio players on the market by year's end. He expects 1 million to 2 million units will be sold by Christmas, against less than 200,000 today. Hardie estimates that 150,000 of the players now in use are Diamond Rios. Two other MP3 players-the Yepp from Samsung Electronics and the MPMan from Saehan Information Systems Inc. (Korea)-are the only other two major offerings available. In this environment, a host of companies are simultaneously proposing new security schemes to SDMI and preparing their own players for launch in the next few months. Sony Corp. proposed its MagicGate as a basis for the SDMI last week, while Toshiba Corp. will propose its ID scheme to the SSFDC Forum, the SmartMedia standardization body. Sony plans to ship a so-called Memory Stick Walkman later this year that uses its gum-stick-sized flash storage cards and a suite of copy-protection technology dubbed MagicGate. Sony will embed a MagicGate chip into its audiovisual- oriented flash cards used both in players and recorders to handle encryption and authentication. All content is transmitted and stored in encrypted format; decryption uses a public-key system. A version of the technology known as OpenMG consists of a module geared to allow playback on a PC of copy-protected music stored locally on a hard drive or other device while preventing transmission of the music over a network. Sony plans to roll out these technologies within a year and hopes to license MagicGate technologies widely. A follow-on called Super MagicGate is positioned as a comprehensive solution for content distribution over networks, ensuring secured distribution and fare collection, according to a Sony spokesman. Like Sony, Toshiba will leverage its flash storage approach, the so-called SmartMedia cards, as the basis of its audio security scheme. Toshiba has already started offering samples of its NAND flash chips with an embedded 128-bit ID number written on an unused memory block as the basis for security on the cards. Before a card ships, the ID numbers are written on-chip by a special permanent process. "The memory will find strong demands for applications such as downloading audio content and as an electronic-book distribution system," said a Toshiba spokesman. The numbered SmartMedia cards form the basis of a Net security scheme, InfoBind, developed by Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corp. (NTT) and Kobe Steel Ltd. for their planned SolidAudio player and NTT's Infoket e-commerce platform. InfoBind encrypts digital music using the ID number unique to each SmartMedia card and distributes the content over networks for playback on SolidAudio devices that use the ID number as the key. "NTT is going to propose its copy-protection technology in the near future to international bodies for standardization," said an NTT spokesman. The two companies also are inviting partners in Japan and overseas to establish a secured audio-content delivery system. Other contenders In addition, online music provider Liquid Audio, which announced a portable digital audio player reference design with Texas Instruments Inc. last week, said it planned to submit a piece of the reference design to SDMI. Other technologies that might be considered include IBM's Electronic Music Management System, which is being used in a trial in San Diego for 1,000 cable-modem subscribers, and an entry from InterTrust Technologies Corp. (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and the Fraunhofer Institute for Integrated Circuits. They have allied to provide rights management and protection technology for Fraunhofer's MP3 and AAC (Advanced Audio Coding) compression algorithms. IBM's San Diego trial is being conducted with the five major music companies that founded SDMI. The InterTrust-Fraunhofer alliance will mean manufacturers can go to Fraunhofer for the MP3 or AAC codecs and get a rights-management system integrated with it. Late last week, Leonardo Chiariglione, convenor of the MPEG group, was named executive director of SDMI. Sources said SDMI won't choose a winning technology, but will pick a very rudimentary level of copy protection and security technology with which digital hardware players and music providers will have to comply to gain certification. As the talks go on, vendors are prepping a slew of music players. A spokesman for Creative Labs said the company intends to introduce its own branded MP3 hardware player by summer. Sources said Philips is also working on a player. Lucent Technologies said it commissioned e.Digital (San Diego) to develop a player that will use Lucent's Enhanced Perceptual Audio Coder compression technology. EPAC includes digital watermarking from Cognicity and Lucent's own secure copy-protection system. Copyright ® 1999 CMP Media Inc.