Computer hardware; computer peripherals; telecommunications hardware, namely, line cards that provide an interface to one or more analog or digital telephone lines, fax cards, speech recognition cards, network interface cards, central processors, voice discs, system discs, disc controllers, back-up streaming tapes, power supplies, control modules, modems and network interface modules, all for use in telephony systems, voice, data and multimedia messaging systems, voice navigation systems, voice, data and multimedia portal systems, namely, a platform that enables multiple-user access to content and information on computer and communications networks and customized on-line web pages featuring user-defined information, and provides information as requested by end-users by means of wired and wireless devices, speech recognition systems, and speech generation systems; computer programs for telephony and multimedia messaging systems, namely, for providing call answering, universal mailbox, message store and forwarding and retrieval, virtual telephony, fax messaging, text messaging, e-mail messaging, video messaging, integrated and non-integrated short message service, network announcements, family mailbox, closed user group, call management, personal assistant, and integrated voice, fax, text, e-mail and video messaging functions; computer programs for speech recognition systems, namely, for providing voice-activated response and voice portal functions in telephony and multimedia applications; computer programs for speech generation systems, namely, for providing text-to-speech or speech-to-text conversion in telephony and multimedia applications; computer programs for providing data network access to multimedia messaging systems; computer communications software and hardware in the field of transmission, reception, and manipulation of voice, fax, video, images, text, audio and other information or data over wireless and wireline telecommunication and data networks; computer hardware and software used for the integration of software applications and computer systems, internet telephony, telephony switching, voice recognition and voice to text transfer, all of the foregoing goods not for use in connection with vehicle navigation systems or vehicle security systems