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INTERNET--(esecurities.W) April 22, 1999--ThrustMaster furthers Internet voice conferencing and community initiatives.ThrustMaster Signs With Chumbo.com to Offer WeCanTalk.com Internet Voice Conferencing Software Talk n' Play(TM) and iConference(TM) Make Leading-Edge Internet Voice Conferencing Possible for Chumbo.com's Home, Small Business, and OEM Customers HILLSBORO, Ore.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 22, 1999-- ThrustMaster, Inc. (Nasdaq:TMSR - news), today announced that it has signed an agreement with Chumbo.com(TM) to offer Talk n' Play and iConference, ThrustMaster's multi-person Internet voice conferencing solutions, to consumers and business users through Chumbo.com's award winning Internet retail software store and to hardware OEMs. Chumbo.com's OEM customers include six of the top ten PC manufacturers. Chumbo's Internet Retail Software store received the PC Magazine Editor's Choice Award for ''Best Software Store on the Web'' for two consecutive years. ''We're very pleased to make these exciting products available to our customers,'' said Jeff Hemenway, Sr. Vice President of Sales and Marketing of Chumbo.com. ''They represent leading edge software we continually seek to provide our customers. Talk n' Play and iConference both offer breakthrough integrated multi-person Internet voice communication, instant messaging, and community solutions to meet the high performance standards we insist upon. We predict Talk n' Play and iConference will be very popular with our many home and SOHO customers as well as our OEMs,'' added Hemenway. The WeCanTalk.com Products Talk n' Play, now shipping, and iConference, targeted to ship mid-May, are the first two product solutions of the ThrustMaster WeCanTalk.com product portfolio. They are designed to provide multi-person Internet voice conferencing and community solutions to the mass market..." SOURCE: © 1999 Thursday April 22, 8:04 am Eastern Time Company Press Releasebiz.yahoo.com