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Technology Stocks : IDT *(idtc) following this new issue?* -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: blankmind who wrote (7515)	5/11/1999 2:44:00 PM
From: Skywatcher	Respond to of 30916

From the article AOL talks Separately, IDT company confirmed that it's in talks with America Online (AOL: news, msgs) and At Home (ATHM: news, msgs) about providing Net2Phone service to their respective members. "We're talking to a lot of people," Hofstetter said. "Nothing has been signed." An AOL spokeswoman declined to comment. AtHome representatives did not immediately return a call seeking comment. Shares of IDT rose 7/8 or about 3 percent to 27 1/4 on Tuesday. Net2Phone COO David Greenblatt, quoted in the trade magazine Sounding Board, said America Online may soon be a partner via its ownership position of Netscape. Netscape announced a deal to offer Net2Phone service in its browser about two months ago. Greenblatt said IDT is weaving Net2Phone service in with the chat component of the upcoming release of Netscape Communicator 5.0, including a software that protects privacy in chat rooms by sealing off phone numbers of callers. Greenblatt said AOL will be enabling its users to engage in voice chat by supplying them the new Navigator software. New plugs IDT spokeswoman Hoffstetter said the Greenblatt was quoted accurately in the article, but she stressed that nothing has been finalized. AOL spokeswoman Tricia Primrose declined to comment. Last week, Ziff-Davis (ZD: news, msgs) unit ZDNet said it's creating an Online Communications Center, where Net2Phone will be the preferred Internet telephony provider. Great stuff...by the way...anyone else HATE the download of Marketwatch as much as I? I don't even look at the articles anymore if it comes from them...this was an exception. chris