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To: Les H who wrote (22869)3/2/1999 12:36:00 PM
From: Trooper  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 24154
 
MSFT/RMAG deal has hit reuters!

Registry Magic strikes Microsoft pact, stock jumps

BOCA RATON, Fla., March 2 (Reuters) - Speech recognition software developer Registry Magic Inc. <RMAG.O> and Microsoft Corp. <MSFT.O> on Tuesday announced a pact to create a system to allow worldwide access to the Internet by speaking over a telephone.

Shares of Registry Magic jumped more than 60 percent to $8.75 before settling somewhat. The stock was up $2..25, or 41 percent, at $7.69 in late morning trading and was the second highest percentage gainer on Nasdaq.

The software, which combines Registry Magic's speech-recognition technology and Microsoft's Web-based interactive voice response technology, will allow worldwide access to the Internet and execute electronic commerce transactions without being in front of a personal computer.

The product is targeted at large corporations and Internet service providers and is targeted at increasing web site exposure to users without PC skills, Registry Magic said in a statement.

"We share the vision that in the short years to come, users will converse with the Internet just as they do with people, and our Virtual Operator technology is the perfect platform to enable it," Registry Magic chief executive officer and president Walt Nawrocki said.

Registry's "Virtual Operator" software performs the tasks of a live operator by using speech-recognition technology, and can answer up to twelve calls at once, it said.

11:57 03-02-99

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To: Les H who wrote (22869)3/2/1999 12:47:00 PM
From: Daniel Schuh  Read Replies (2) | Respond to of 24154
 
Nice. Another creature crawls out of the political cesspool. Do you also have a newfound interest in antitrust issues, Les? Or did I follow you into this thread too, like your pal Billy Boy? Dang, I noticed a post of Billy Boy's has been deleted. I wonder if Billy Boy did one of his little edit window tricks or something.

Who cares, I wish you guys would all get on with your hateful lives, or at least keep it in the "all Clinton hatred, all the time" threads.