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To: TechnoWiz who wrote (11689)	3/29/1999 2:50:00 PM
From: Wally	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 15313

Hi Wiz, and thanks for that terrific post. The unveiling of the relationship between FNTN and Siemens may well be the defining moment for FNTN. I believe our gem will be fully exposed after each facet of the company has been sufficiently polished before dazzling their investor market. Any release from FNTN of major import that concerns Siemens will probably receive maximum returns if other conditions are in place or near. For example, if FNTN simultaneously announces full reporting status and/ or significant sales while Siemens own PR reveals the existence of their partnership with FNTN, FNTN's stock would pass 3 dollars in a New York minute. In FNTN's stage of development the old adage "Location, Location location" is more accurately an issue of "timing is everything." The proper and logical coordination of events and the release of said information to investors, clients (and competitors) alike. Since I already believe in FNTN's mission and people, I am not about to second-guess the decisions that FNTN's management makes concerning their own business. Curious yes - but I don't know enough about running someone else's business to assume I can run it better than they. I have enough on my hands just running my own business. Very few investments pay off quite as fast as investors would like. What is more important is that it does pay off. To that end, I believe that most true FNTN investors are in agreement- that we have a winner in FNTN.. and not a lot more time to wait. Thanks again for your intelligent post Wiz, Wally

To: TechnoWiz who wrote (11689)	3/30/1999 11:34:00 AM
From: FJ	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 15313

Wiz: thank you for excellent post. While we wait for further FNTN developments, here is Siemens release, regarding Intranet and Distance Learning: Siemens Develops Program That Lets Web Site Developers Augment Documents with Annotations, Including Voice Comments; Viewers Can Retrieve in Response to Queries or Share Comments with Others via E-Mail Potential Applications Include Call Centers, Intranet, and E-Commerce PRINCETON, N.J., March 30 /PRNewswire/ -- Scientists at Siemens Corporate Research, Inc. (SCR) have developed a Web-based Internet/Intranet application called Web Tour that automatically takes viewers through a Web site, making verbal comments and/or dynamic annotations or drawings to illustrate points along the way. Viewers can interact through written and/or verbal input, and send along to others with their comments via e-mail. These real-time guided tours lend themselves to call centers, e-commerce, Intranet applications, and even distance learning, among others. Most Web documents once authored are static, i.e., the contents of the document do not change. Part of what makes this program unique, currently there is a patent application pending, is a new authoring paradigm for enhancing WWW document content in the form of annotations on Web pages. The system supports recording and synchronized playback of voice comments together with various actions (dynamic annotations) performed on the Web page. For example, a customer could enter a call center's Web site and type a query. The query could then be answered in the form of a "Web tour," consisting of the call center "author" or Web site host walking the customer through the site by making dynamic text annotations on the Web page or verbal comments in response to questions; likewise, the customer can also make annotations or verbal comments. According to Chellury Sastry, project manager-Multimedia/Video Technology department, who heads up the Web Tour effort: "Typical authoring actions include mouse gestures and drawings to call attention to specific areas of a page, audio comments that further describe the page or answer questions about its contents, or transversal hyperlinks that give the author the ability to guide a user in 'surfing' a site." At the heart of the computer program are algorithms that -- given questions keyed by a viewer -- prompt correct responses either by dynamic annotation and/or voice. Some of the benefits of the program, Dr. Sastry notes, are the natural mode of communications in the absence of face-to-face contact, and the fact that viewers can work at their own pace, including going back to review the Web tour, not just Web pages. "There's also an easy-to-use 'multimedia authoring tool' to augment Web document contents," he adds. Other potential applications include: -- E-commerce business: A customer could enter a retail store's Web site. A web clerk would greet the customer and guide him/her through documents that comprise the site, explaining key products and adding an advertisement whenever necessary. -- Corporate Intranet: Different users could make annotations on the same document and share ideas and information. This also can include hospital applications whereby a doctor or nurse could make dynamic annotations and/or verbal comments about a particular patient's case history or most recent operation and pass along to other colleagues for review and comment. -- Distance Learning: A professor annotates a sequence of Web pages explaining a difficult concept; this annotation could then be retrieved by students and played back. Simens Corporate Research's Multimedia/Video Technology department is currently working in four major areas: video management and processing, multimedia asynchronous collaboration, Internet multimedia, and multimedia in automation. SCR, one of four R&D centers worldwide, is an affiliate of Siemens AG and is associated with Siemens AG's Corporate Technology organization. First established in the U.S. in 1977, and now based in the Princeton Forrestal Center, SCR is staffed by approximately 150 research and support professionals. As a global center of competence, SCR has responsibility for four core areas of research as designated by Corporate Technology: adaptive information and signal processing, imaging and visualization, software engineering, and multimedia/video technology. In this capacity, SCR works closely with Siemens companies in the U.S. and worldwide to develop leading-edge technology for incorporation into their product development programs. SOURCE Siemens Corporate Research, Inc. CO: Siemens Corporate Research, Inc. ST: New Jersey IN: CPR MLM SU: PDT 03/30/99 10:48 EST prnewswire.com