Netscape Communications Corp has signed up with Lucent Technologies Inc’s recently formed elemedia division (CI No 3,004) and will incorporate elemedia multimedia communications technology in with future products, including Netscape Communicator and Netscape Media Server. Elemedia – it stands for elements of multimedia was launched last month to sell software for allowing high quality, low-complexity voice, music and video content to be run across the Internet and intranets. Its Media Plus range includes voice software for telephone-quality conversations over the Internet, full-duplex speakerphone software for personal computers and Internet phone devices, and CD-quality audio software for applications such as music-on- demand and real-time audio broadcasting. Videoconferencing software is due by the end of the year, according to elemedia, which is based at the Bell Labs site in Murray Hill, New Jersey. Other elemedia customers include DigiPhone manufacturer Camelot Corporation, communications software house Isochrone Inc, and Internet broadcasting service company Soundprint Media Center.
