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To: esecurities(tm) who wrote (2069)	5/6/1999 8:30:00 PM
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A question about WeCanTalk. WhyShouldWeTalk? What is the customer need? I haven't tried WeCanTalk, but I assume it suffers from the same latency that competing products do. So, it is inferior to the telephone, which works quite well. Do people really want to talk to others as they browse the web? Browsing is very much an individual experience. Now, I do see the value of TalkNPlay. Gameplayers have a need to coordinate strategies with teamates. But, there are competitors in this area, and future games will have voice communication built in. So, who buys these products, and why? Regards, Archer

To: esecurities(tm) who wrote (2069)	5/6/1999 10:37:00 PM
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Off Topic?INTERNET--(esecurities.W)--May 6, 1999 - Intel Invests $30M in Lernout & Hauspie to Form New Venture to Develop E-Commerce and Telephony Solutions SANTA CLARA, Calif. and IEPER, Belgium--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 5, 1999--Intel Corporation (Nasdaq:INTC - news) and Lernout & Hauspie Speech Products (Nasdaq:LHSP, Easdaq:LHSP) (L&H(tm)) today announced that they have signed a definitive agreement to form a venture to develop e-commerce and telephony solutions using L&H's speech and language technologies. The new venture will combine many of L&H's speech and language technologies, such as L&H's Natural Language Technology(tm) (NLT), intelligent content management (ICM), machine translation and speech synthesis, such as L&H's recently announced RealSpeak(tm) technology, with Intel's expertise in performance computing platforms. The goal is to provide a new level of e-commerce and telephony solutions for users worldwide. ''L&H has long recognized the integral role speech and language technologies play in simplifying and enhancing solutions for the Internet, e-commerce and telephony market segments,'' said Gaston Bastiaens, president and CEO of L&H. ''Our complete offering of technologies and solutions support the industry's broadest range of languages and enable us to provide speech and language software and services to users in these market, and many others worldwide.'' ''Combining Intel's leadership in the high performance, connected computing platforms together with L&H's leading technologies presents exciting possibilities for web-based products and services,'' said Ron Whittier, senior vice president and general manager of Intel's Content Group. ''A voice interface presents a natural, intuitive method for people to get the information they need - via PCs, connected smart devices and the telephone.'' ''The combined technologies of L&H and Intel can to make e-commerce and other applications more attractive by supporting natural speech commands, human-sounding synthesized speech, accurate machine translation and faster, simpler data query and retrieval,'' said Jo Lernout, co-founder of L&H. ''We believe that this new venture with Intel builds upon our expertise and that these technologies will play a role in helping to further solutions for diverse industries.'' New Venture Agreement The venture will be owned 51 percent by Intel Corporation and 49 percent by L&H. Each company will have representation on the board of directors. The new company will be based in L&H's Flanders Valley facility in Ieper, Belgium and in Santa Clara, California and will be staffed initially by employees from both companies. Intel Investment Completed L&H announced on April 5, 1999, that Intel had signed a letter of intent to invest $30 million in L&H in the form of non-voting securities and non-interest bearing convertible into L&H common stock. Today, the companies announced that Intel had completed its investment..." SOURCE: &copy 1999 Wednesday May 5, 8:06 pm Eastern Time Company Press Release biz.yahoo.com

To: esecurities(tm) who wrote (2069)	5/8/1999 2:47:00 AM
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INTERNET--(esecurities.W)--May 8, 1999 - "Internet A Gold Mine Of Opportunities For U.S. Firms" WILLIAMSBURG, Va. (Reuters) - U.S. companies have yet to tap the full power of the Internet but it is already radically changing business -- boosting productivity, inspiring creativity, helping to curb costs and opening new doors to clients, heads of major corporations said this week. Leaders of such firms as health-care giant Johnson & Johnson, General Electric and financial conglomerate Citigroup Inc., said the Internet deserved much credit for the U.S. economy's ability to expand briskly without spurring inflation -- something that has surprised economists. The Internet -- a communications network of inter-connected computers spanning the globe -- was a key theme at the spring meeting of the Business Council, a group of 300 executives from the nation's largest firms. ''It is unleashing enormous intellectual power within the company, allowing us to do things that we never did before and allowing people to make contributions they couldn't make before,'' Johnson & Johnson Chairman Ralph Larsen said. ''We have just begun to appreciate, to some degree, how powerful the Internet is.'' The Internet's explosive growth has eliminated a host of time-consuming back office tasks, created new routes to deliver products from T-shirts to annuities and allowed companies to lure more customers here and abroad, the executives said. Meanwhile, costs are dropping as more orders are logged online and customers are more informed than ever before. The sales pitch will never be the same. The U.S. economy has grown at nearly 4 percent a year in the past three years, easily outpacing the 2.5 percent rate presumed to be its potential without spurring inflation or putting strains on resources. Rather than rising, inflation has fallen to a year-on-year rate of just 1.7 percent. Some economists and business people have attributed the performance to a ''new economy'' of high productivity growth ushered in by the Internet. At Johnson & Johnson, one of the main contributions of Internet communications has been to enhance the sharing of information among the company's 180 operating entities -- something that used to require meetings involving costly employee travel and scheduling headaches..." [emphasis added] SOURCE: © 1999 (Reuters) Friday May 7 12:40 PM ET dailynews.yahoo.com © 1999 SiliconNewswire.com. All Rights Reserved.

To: esecurities(tm) who wrote (2069)	5/12/1999 8:19:00 PM
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>>INTERNET--(esecurities.W)--May 6, 1999 - ThrustMaster >>spin-off and/or WeCanTalk.com IPO? >>for (NASDAQ:TMSR) to have any credibility and be a >>player in the IP Telephony sector ThrustMaster must >>either change its name and or spin-off/divest >>ThrustMaster [H/W Controllers] entirely and or formally >>launch WeCanTalk.com pursuant to its own IPO... ThrustMaster <http://www.thrustmaster.com> and WeCanTalk.com <http://www.wecantalk.com> , Irreconcilable Differences? ...wecantalk.com better be more than a shockwave animation by E3 and/or iConference [May 15] formal launch...Hausmann is [strongly] suggesting TMSR is an internet/intranet/extranet telephony play...not at this rate...at least not at 'the street' level... © 1999 SiliconNewswire.com. All Rights Reserved.

To: esecurities(tm) who wrote (2069)	5/19/1999 5:49:00 PM
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INTERNET--(esecurities.W)--May 19, 1999 - Will WeCanTalk.com put a face on: Intel® Personal Communications Initiative? Intel® Personal Communications Initiative Highlights--Intel® Multi-Point Audio Enhances Home Networking IAL's Multi-Point Audio software allows people to talk, interact and play games on up to 5 PCs networked with a product such as Intel® AnyPoint™ Home Network. The mission of the Personal Communications initiative is to make the use of video phone calls widespread. This means contributing specifications and technologies to enable Internet telephony and video conferencing over existing networks and analog telephone connections. It also means paving the way for solutions that are open and interoperable. The Personal Communications initiative has been active for several years, having a strong impact on the industry area. Today, for instance, many of the technical barriers to video conferencing and telephony over the Internet have been removed. What is IAL doing? The Personal Communications initiative applies its research and development efforts in three areas: •Developing specifications and technologies. •Ensuring that these technologies become broadly available in the market. •Fostering interoperability in conferencing and telephony products from multiple vendors on multiple platforms. 1.Developing Specifications and Technologies IAL Personal Communications initiative engineers contributed to many of today's major video telephony specifications, particularly H.323 and H.324. These standards were developed under and adopted by the International Telecommunications Union (http://www.itu.ch/) to embrace IP-based networks and analog video telephony, respectively. 2.Ensuring Technologies Become Broadly Available Working through Intel's own product groups, this initiative activity has created products from their technologies, and licensed H.323 and H.324-based components to help these two standards take root in the market. The Intel® Video Phone, which implements both the H.323 and H.324 standards, is an integral part of systems from many of today's leading PC manufacturers. H.323-based video conferencing technology is also part of Microsoft NetMeeting (www.microsoft.com/netmeeting), a product shipped with tens of millions of new PCs. This product lets users conduct "face-to-face" video meetings across intranets and the Internet..." SOURCE: © copyright 1999 intel® developer.intel.com TRENDS IN HOME COMPUTING "...By the end of this year, more than 17 million homes will have two or more PCs, and the number is rising fast. Multiple-PC homes tend to use the Internet more than households with just one PC. Put those two trends together, and it's clear that networking household PCs is a great idea. With an AnyPoint Home Network, everyone in the household can simultaneously share a single Internet connection from their own connected PC, as well as share drives and printers, and play multi-user games together. And, you can still make and receive phone calls while printing, accessing files, or playing multi-player games across the AnyPoint Home Network. You can also enjoy forthcoming applications that are now being designed to take advantage of home networks. For more information on our research, check out the latest Trends in Home Computing paper..." &copy copyright 1999 intel&reg [emphasis added*] Note: In addition to TALK' N PLAY, ThrustMaster owns trademark numbers 75-461883 and 75-461815 which represent CHAT' N PLAY and SEE' N PLAY, respectively. Of further? significance, TMSR also recently hired Loren Winzeler jars.com and Rob Smart Message 7271094 away from intel® IAL. © copyright 1999 SiliconNewswire.com*. All Rights Reserved.