David Trachtenberg Quotations

He has a very good understanding of where the president wants to go, he has a good understanding of the process, and he has good relations with other people in the process.

We look at video communication as the final frontier in terms of thinking about the ways people can connect. We are visual beings, consistently bombarded by one-way video. Moving forward, what we're talking about here is two-way real-time video communication.

With the current options available on the market, users can only communicate with people in their network. With the IVE solution you can now connect to anyone, anywhere, including cell phones and land lines.

We have the expertise to provide the Latino market with the Internet power and resources it needs and is ready to use.

We don't have pop-up ads that try to sell you toothpaste on your way somewhere. We're the largest independent ISP today. I like having a market leader to go after.

We give out real telephone numbers to all subscribers, so users can make voice calls to a friend's cell phone from their computer. Not only going from video to voice, but also completely off of the video network, a user can place a call from a cell phone to a video number and have a VOIP call.

Best Buy has been our most significant partnership. We're seeing a fair amount of people who are new to the Internet and a lot of existing AOL subscribers coming to Prodigy because of these partnerships.

AT&T was a monolith and there were upstart companies like MCI and Sprint.

IVE is all bundled under the Sony brand, which is important from a distribution aspect because we're now able to use the solution to get into new channels and partnerships. Sony has already preloaded IVE on its new line of VAIO notebooks, so it's also opening up doors from a retail perspective.