Diamond Multimedia ships TeleCommander 2500XL, company's first computer telephony product for SOHO market; TeleCommander 2500XL features advanced voice mail functions, Internet phone.SAN JOSE San Jose, city, United States San Jose (sănəzā`, săn hōzā`), city (1990 pop. 782,248), seat of Santa Clara co., W central Calif.; founded 1777, inc. 1850. , Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 17, 1995--Diamond Multimedia Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ NASDAQ in full National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations U.S. market for over-the-counter securities. Established in 1971 by the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD), NASDAQ is an automated quotation system that reports on : DIMD DIMD Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary ) is now shipping TeleCommander 2500XL, the company's first fully-integrated audio/telephony product for the small office/home office See SOHO. (SOHO Soho (sōhō`, sə–), district of Westminster, London, England, known for its continental restaurants. Once a fashionable quarter, it became popular among writers and artists in the 19th cent. ) marketplace. The new TeleCommander 2500XL features full audio, fax and modem functions, including voicemail software that allows anyone to present a professional, corporate image from their home or small office, for a $249 estimated retail price. TeleCommander 2500XL is the first product of its kind to include VocalTec's Internet Phone (1) See IP phone and softphone. (2) (Internet Phone) The first VoIP telephone service in the U.S., introduced in early 1995 by VocalTec Communications Ltd., Fort Lee, NJ (www.vocaltec.com). Using a Windows softphone, calls could also be made to a regular phone. audio-compression software that allows users to make phone calls via the Internet, anywhere around the world, without paying long distance phone charges. Also included with TeleCommander 2500XL is Day-Timer Organizer software which gives users a personal organizer with a phone book right at their fingertips "Fingertips" is a 1963 number-one hit single recorded live by "Little" Stevie Wonder for Motown's Tamla label. Wonder's first hit single, "Fingertips" was the first live, non-studio recording to reach number-one on the Billboard Pop Singles chart in the United States. ; Thought Communication's FaxTalk Messenger, a fax and voicemail administration package; and FaxTalk Speakerphone, a phone dialer and call control software package. Online services software bundled with the TeleCommander 2500XL include America Online See AOL. , CompuServe, Imagination Network and internet access software. TeleCommander 2500XL is an affordable solution for boosting the telecommunications power in small or home businesses, including satellite offices of larger companies. The new product integrates a full-functioning 16-bit CD-quality sound card that works with Sound Blaster Pro-compatible applications and a 14.4 K-baud Rockwell modem (v.32 bis) and 14.4 K-baud fax (v.17). The all-in-one desktop communications solution provides professional voicemail system and full-duplex speaker phone with echo cancellation and more than 10,000 mailboxes, all caller-ID enabled. Caller-ID, combined with Daytimer software, automatically "pops-up" background information on incoming callers. Other key features include extensive voicemail capabilities such as call screening, call forwarding and remote message access as well as fax forwarding, fax-on-demand and pager notification capabilities. Each features allows professionals to better manage and control their business, whether they're in or out of the office. For example, traveling executives can program TeleCommander to alert them to incoming calls and faxes simply by beeping their pagers or forwarding the calls to another office. Diamond's new telephony product also supports Radish radish, herbaceous plant (Raphanus sativus) belonging to the family Cruciferae (mustard family), with an edible, pungent root sliced in salads or used as a relish. Communication's new Voice View technology, allowing users to send and receive files during a single phone conversation without hanging up. "TeleCommander 2500XL delivers advanced telephony features needed for running an organized, professional business from a home or small office," said Paul Nahi, director of product marketing for Diamond Multimedia. "Diamond has developed the TeleCommander 2500XL to provide a professional voicemail solution with superior audio capabilities, advanced voice-data technology, and software for the SOHO market." Diamond's new telephony product requires a 486 or higher IBM (International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY, www.ibm.com) The world's largest computer company. IBM's product lines include the S/390 mainframes (zSeries), AS/400 midrange business systems (iSeries), RS/6000 workstations and servers (pSeries), Intel-based servers (xSeries) or compatible PC with an open ISA Bus slot, Windows 3.1 and DOS 3.3 or above, and 4MB of system memory. The product is now shipping and is available through Diamond Multimedia's extensive channel of regional, national and international distributors, as well as through major OEMs worldwide. For more information, customers can call 1-800-4-MULTIMEDIA or obtain online information through the internet: www.diamondmm.com. Diamond Multimedia Systems, Inc. designs, manufactures and markets high-performance multimedia solutions including graphics and multimedia video accelerators, sound cards, audio/telephony subsystems and multimedia upgrade kits for the personal computer market. Headquartered in San Jose, Calif., Diamond has marketing and technical support facilities in Tokyo, Munich and Slough (U.K.). The company's products are sold through regional, national and international distributors as well as to major computer retailers, mass merchants and OEMs worldwide. Diamond's Common Stock is traded on the Nasdaq Stock Market Nasdaq stock market The first electronic stock market listing over 5000 companies. The Nasdaq stock market comprises two separate markets, namely the Nasdaq National Market, which trades large, active securities and the Nasdaq Smallcap Market that trades emerging growth companies. under the symbol DIMD. -0- Note to Editors: All tradenames referenced are the service mark, trademark, or registered trademark of their respective manufacturers. CONTACT: Diamond Multimedia Systems, Inc. Lorraine Jenkins, 408/325-7346 Email: lorraine@diamondmm.com or Faiola Davis Public Relations public relations, activities and policies used to create public interest in a person, idea, product, institution, or business establishment. By its nature, public relations is devoted to serving particular interests by presenting them to the public in the most Sara Faiola/Eric Lindbom, 213/933-4959 |
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