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Technology Stocks : IATV-ACTV Digital Convergence Software-HyperTV -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: art slott who wrote (3817)	5/18/1999 3:15:00 PM
From: art slott	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 13157

Bridge is on top of things. As a matter of fact they're Actv is 11 floors below. ACTV announced on May 3rd that it was building its first point-of-presence (POP) for its HyperTV Network at an Internet Data Center facility hosted Exodus Communications, Inc. (NASDAQ: EXDS) in its New York facility. We view this announcement as extremely positive for ACTV. Exodus is a leading provider of Internet hosting and bandwidth solutions for mission-critical Internet operations, and will provide ACTV's programming partners, consumers and advertisers with highest levels of reliability and security. Points of interest: This first POP will support approximately 100,000 simultaneous users of HyperTV. We believe that this level will be sufficient, initially, for what we call "regularly scheduled" HyperTV programming. We expect ACTV to build-out additional POPs this year, and over the next few years. We believe HyperTV Networks will soon be able to support the type of Special, or Marquee Event, Programming — such as a nationwide pay-per-view sporting event, music concert, or an event such as the Victoria's Secret fashion show — that have been shown to attract several hundred thousand convergent users. Further, we believe ACTV is close to signing its first network programming agreements. As network programming partnerships are established, ACTV will be ready with a functional HyperTV network to begin offering programming to advertisers and HyperTV users. Acquisition of Wolzien

To: art slott who wrote (3817)	5/18/1999 3:17:00 PM
From: art slott	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 13157

Acquisition of Wolzien Patent — ACTV's Preeminent Intellectual Property Position in Convergence -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ACTV announced recently that it had acquired a patent from Thomas Wolzien, a leading Wall Street media analyst, which is complementary to its own HyperTV patent. We have evaluated the Wolzien patent, the HyperTV patent and other intellectual property applicable in this "convergence space," and are convinced that ACTV has assembled a uniquely valuable, preeminent intellectual property position pertaining to the two ways to get information from the Internet and the television (described below). The applications of the HyperTV technology, supported by ACTV's patent portfolio, enables the convergence of the Internet and television, and has broad implications in the evolution of entertainment programming (across all genres), advertising and e-commerce. We envision an aggressive licensing program, and HyperTV marketing effort, to a broad range of companies, including the entertainment networks, programming companies, Internet portals, new media companies and software producers. Below, we address some of the questions pertaining to the Wolzien patent acquisition, and provide additional information on HyperTV and its applications. We are currently updating our HyperTV financial model based upon the current plans to roll-out the HyperTV technology, and will be providing a research update in the near future with a new earnings model. What is "the Wolzien" patent, and why did ACTV buy it? -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ACTV has acquired US Patent 5,761