StarTronix Announces Strategic Alliance With EyeTel To Provide New "VidCall" Video Conferencing Service For The StarScreen.IRVINE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 30, 1996--StarTronix International Inc. (OTCBB OTCBB See OTC Bulletin Board (OTCBB). : STNX) and EyeTel Technologies, Inc. (OTCBB:EYLT) announced today that they have formed a strategic alliance to develop VidCall, a proprietary, customized, scaleable video teleconferencing See videoconferencing. service for StarTronix's Internet Internet Publicly accessible computer network connecting many smaller networks from around the world. It grew out of a U.S. Defense Department program called ARPANET (Advanced Research Projects Agency Network), established in 1969 with connections between computers at the screen-phone, StarScreen(TM). VidCall is scheduled to be available in the first quarter of 1997. The companies made the announcement at the 16th Annual Teleconferencing Users Conference and Trade Show in Anaheim, Calif. where, on Oct. 31, at Booth 107, the companies will be demonstrating the use of the StarScreen and the new VidCall service. StarTronix began delivery this month of the new StarScreen(TM) to its rapidly growing ranks of independent distributors, now numbering more than 15,000. New distributors are signing up at the rate of more than 1,500 each week. Over the past year, StarTronix evaluated a variety of competing video teleconferencing solutions to be used to enhance the StarScreen Internet Terminal with live, point-to-point dial-up analog as well as Internet-enabled, digital-video teleconferencing capabilities. Based on the results of the evaluation, StarTronix selected EyeTel's flexible software architecture as the preferred platform for development of VidCall. Greg Gilbert Greg Gilbert (born January 22, 1962 in Mississauga, Ontario) is a retired former professional ice hockey player and the current head coach of the Toronto Marlies in the American Hockey League. , Chairman of StarTronix, stated, "Video conferencing See videoconferencing. (communications) video conferencing - A discussion between two or more groups of people who are in different places but can see and hear each other using electronic communications. is one of the key premium services we have been anxious to provide since StarTronix began. VidCall will provide 'life-like' video conferencing on the StarScreen over regular phone lines and the Internet. The StarScreen(TM) is the result of our modular approach which allows each user to select a variety of premium services." Gilbert also stated that "VidCall is just one of many premium services StarTronix will add in the coming years." Gordon Medlock, Chairman of Syracuse, Indiana-based EyeTel said, "EyeTel technology is ideally suited to meet the requirements StarTronix has established for a standards-based state-of-the-art video conferencing and information sharing See data conferencing. service for their growing network of independent distributors. The robust features of our technology will assist StarTronix to provide StarScreen(TM) with enhanced audio visual communications over the Internet and regular dial-up phone lines while maintaining full interoperability The capability of two or more hardware devices or two or more software routines to work harmoniously together. For example, in an Ethernet network, display adapters, hubs, switches and routers from different vendors must conform to the Ethernet standard and interoperate with each other. with other third party systems based on industry standards." Based in Irvine, Calif., StarTronix International markets leading edge technologies and Internet related products and services to consumers, as well as new and existing home-based business owners, through three operating subsidiaries An operating subsidiary is a business term frequently used within the United States railroad industry. In the case of a railroad, it refers to a company that is a subsidiary but operates with its own identity and rolling stock. : StarTronix Inc., StarTronix On-Line, Inc. and StarTronix Telecom, Inc. CONTACT: StarTronix Investor Relations Investor relations The process by which the corporation communicates with its investors. Tony Guest, 800/700-6711 www.startronix.com or EyeTel Technologies, Investor Relations 219/457-8200 www.eyetel.com or Continental Capital & Equity Corp. Michael Irving, 407/875-1110 www.insidewallstreet.com |
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