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{subhead}Amiga Inc. and Infomedia Network, Inc. Announcement{def}
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Amiga Inc. and Infomedia Network, Inc. Announce Strategic Relationship for new
line of Interactive Set-Top Boxes
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August 16, 2000 Snoqualmie, WA - Houston, TX - Amiga Incorporated and Infomedia
Network, Inc. today have announced a strategic relationship in delivering the
Amiga and its content to a new line of broadband interactive set-top box
products.
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Infomedia Network is dedicated to bringing the best products to their new line
of set-top boxes. These new products include TVision, the first in a family of
interactive TV set-top products that provide the consumer with a low-cost, easy
to use gateway for Internet and Entertainment. TVision connects to corporate
LANs, as well as home DSL and cable modems through an Ethernet port and provides
users with Internet access, scaleable real-time Video Conferencing, Interactive
Video games, Movies-on-Demand, Home Banking, Point-of-Sale, and other exciting
new features without the need for a PC.
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"Amiga, Incorporated and the Amiga community offer great additions to the
products and services that are planned for TVision," said Patrice Haftman, CEO
of Infomedia Network. "Now TVision customers will have great content available
to them from the best developers in the world."
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"We are excited about working with Infomedia," said Bill McEwen, President/CEO
Amiga Incorporated. "Amiga is the perfect fit for the products and services
Infomedia are looking to offer to their OEMs and consumers. Amiga developers are
already using the new Amiga SDK to create new applications, multi-media titles,
and interactive content that are perfect for this new line of Set-top Boxes."
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Infomedia Network and Amiga are privately held companies, and terms of the
transaction were not available.
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For more information on either company please visit their web sites:
www.infomedia-network.com, and www.amiga.com respectively.
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{bold}About Amiga:{nobold}
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Amiga is focused on creating a multi-media digital environment that provides
developers with a true write once run anywhere scenario. Amiga includes a rich
15-year history of industry leadership in the development of what we know as
multi-media.
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{bold}About Infomedia Network:{nobold}
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Infomedia Network, Inc. is a communications technology company with patents
pending on new digital TV consumer devices that enable broadcast television,
voice telephone services, high-speed Internet, TV quality video conferencing,
and on-demand games and entertainment that use existing copper wiring inside the
home. Infomedia is currently the only company today building advanced TV /
multi-media set-top boxes that address the needs of the next-generation "Full
Service Network" for each type of broadband infrastructure.
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{bold}Contact Information{nobold}
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Amiga Incorporated{p}
Bill McEwen{p}
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e-mail: [e-mail]
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Infomedia Network{p}
J.D. Ray{p}
Tel: [phone] x 18{p}
Fax: [phone]{p}
e-mail: [e-mail]
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 © 1996-2000 Amiga, Inc.
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