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To: esecurities(tm) who wrote (2100)	5/14/1999 1:11:00 PM
From: D.J.Smyth	Respond to of 2443

sure that's enough posts? okay. we're convinced. when do we see $60?

To: esecurities(tm) who wrote (2100)	5/14/1999 5:48:00 PM
From: esecurities(tm)	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 2443

INTERNET--(esecurities.W)--May 14, 1999 - iConference to ship "mid-May". THRUSTMASTER SIGNS WITH CHUMBO.COM TO OFFER WECANTALK.COM INTERNET VOICE CONFERENCING SOFTWARE Talk n' Play and iConference Make Leading-Edge Internet Voice Conferencing Possible for Chumbo.com's Home, Small Business, and OEM Customers Hillsboro, Oregon, April 22, 1999 -- ThrustMaster, Inc. (NASDAQ: TMSR), today announced that it has signed an agreement with Chumbo.com 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. Talk n' Play is an exciting new software solution that lets up to four people talk and play games over the Internet at the same time from four separate locations. Users can talk with people over the Internet, from anywhere in the world, with no long distance fees. Talk n' Play allows users to play games over the same Internet connection, eliminating the need to type text messages to each other while playing. Talk n' Play includes 28 ready-to-play Internet games, as well as a high-quality headset and microphone. Estimated retail price is $29.95. iConference will begin shipping in mid-May 1999. iConference delivers multi-person Internet voice communication and collaboration tools for the small and home office in an easy to use, integrated package. It includes two complete iConference multi-person Internet software solutions with business collaboration tools such as Windows application sharing, file transfer, and a shared electronic white board, plus two headset microphones. One of the solutions is prepackaged in a shipper to mail to a business associate. Estimated retail street price for the two-pack is $49.95. About Chumbo.com Chumbo.com provides a channel of distribution for independent software vendors (ISVs), an optional distribution method for PC OEMs and is a 24-hour resource for consumers and corporate clients to purchase software, DVDs and computer-related books. Chumbo Holdings Corporation, an Internet commerce company, is the parent of Point Group Corp. and Chumbo.com. Zomax Optical Media [NASDAQ: ZOMX] holds an equity interest in Chumbo Holdings Corporation. Chumbo.com can be found on the World Wide Web at www.chumbo.com..." SOURCE: ThrustMaster Inc. Company News thrustmaster.com April 22, 1999 [emphasis added] &copy 1999 SiliconNewswire.com. All Rights Reserved.

To: esecurities(tm) who wrote (2100)	5/15/1999 12:49:00 AM
From: Timothy Detjens	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 2443

Intel info. Just to separate more fact from reality, it should be noted that Intel is not only a partner of Mpath, but a 6% owner. Basically, as I said months ago, Intel has no real strategic relationship with TMSR - they have one goal and one goal alone. The one they have always had: Increase processor use by the average user. Intel marketed an Internet phone in recent years, and completely tossed the product as was unimportant - what TMSR touts as a "buying into the vision" is pretty much more "smoke and mirrors". They licensed a technology they never made money on to TMSR - that's it. Intel itself has spent no time promoting TMSR - it wants Videophones to take off, the TMSR deal was obviously just a way to recoup some R&D expenses. If you don't believe that, then just check out their site - they haven't updated their TMSR info since Dec. (still says that you can download Talk N' Play for free)