AOL's T9 Text Input Now Available in Hindi.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers 3GSM World Congress 2003 CANNES, France--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 19, 2003 Industry's Leading Wireless Text Input Technology Now Available in 39 Languages Continues Company's Ongoing Rollout of Region-Specific Languages for the Growing Mobile Messaging Market Tegic Communications, a wholly owned subsidiary Wholly Owned Subsidiary A subsidiary whose parent company owns 100% of its common stock. Notes: In other words, the parent company owns the company outright and there are no minority owners. of America Online See AOL. , Inc., today announced the availability of T9(R) Text Input for Hindi, India's national language and the primary language for 30 percent of its population. The release of T9 Text Input for the Hindi language Hindi language Indo-Aryan language of India, spoken or understood by more than 30% of the country's population. Modern Standard Hindi is a lingua franca (as well as native language) of millions of people in North India and the official language of the Indian Union. continues the company's rapid rollout of region-specific linguistic databases to meet the growing worldwide demand for mobile text messaging Sending short messages to a smartphone, pager, PDA or other handheld device. Text messaging implies sending short messages generally no more than a couple of hundred characters in length. services. T9 Text Input software, also commonly referred to as "predictive text Predictive text is an input technology designed for mobile phones. The technology allows words to be entered by a single keypress for each letter, as opposed to the multiple keypress approach used in the older generation of mobile phones. input," enables the use of wireless communication services such as SMS (1) (Storage Management System) Software used to routinely back up and archive files. See HSM. (2) (Systems Management Server) Systems management software from Microsoft that runs on Windows NT Server. (short messaging See SMS. service), instant messaging Exchanging text messages in real time between two or more people logged into a particular instant messaging (IM) service. Instant messaging is more interactive than e-mail because messages are sent immediately, whereas e-mail messages can be queued up in a mail server for seconds or and e-mail by allowing users to quickly and easily enter text and characters into their wireless phone. "As more and more consumers around the world rely on text-based services to stay in touch, we are thrilled to add T9 Text Input for Hindi to our expanding library of language databases," said Bill Schwebel, Vice President of Licensing for America Online. "T9 Text Input is the 'de facto' standard for easy text input on wireless phones worldwide and we are pleased to offer mobile phone manufacturers the leading solution for quick and easy text entry on wireless phones for consumers in India's rapidly growing wireless market." T9 Text Input for Hindi, as well as the latest T9 Text Input enhancements will be demonstrated in the AOL (A division of Time Warner, Inc., New York, NY, www.aol.com) The world's largest online information service with access to the Internet, e-mail, chat rooms and a variety of databases and services. Time Warner booth -- #L31, Hall 4 -- at 3GSM World Congress 2003 in Cannes, France from Tuesday, February 18, through Friday, February 21. For more information about T9 Text Input, please visit www.t9.com or AOL Keyword: T9 Text Input. Availability T9 Text Input for Hindi is available now for licensing by mobile phone manufacturers. About T9 Text Input By incorporating T9 Text Input into mobile communications products, companies are solving the fundamental problem of how to quickly and easily type and send messages. Although each key on a telephone keypad A telephone keypad is a keypad that appears on a “Touch Tone” telephone. It was standardised when the Dual-tone multi-frequency (DTMF) system was introduced in the 1960s, and replaced the rotary dial. can be interpreted in multiple ways -- a single press on the "5" key could be "J," "K," or "L" - T9 Text Input uses an internal database to automatically scan possible variations to determine the correct word. For example, entering the word "call" into a mobile phone will take just four key presses with T9 Text Input rather than ten key presses required by conventional multi-tap text entry. In addition, T9 Text Input adapts to users by automatically capturing their unique text messaging language -- such as slang, abbreviations, mixed alpha-numerics, emoticons, URLs and e-mail addresses -- in its dictionary so that users need not multi-tap them with each use. T9 Text Input is available in 39 languages, including Arabic, Bulgarian, Catalan, Chinese, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Icelandic, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean (Hangul), Latvian, Lithuanian, Malay, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbo-Croatian, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Tagalog, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian and Vietnamese. T9 Text Input supports Simplified and Traditional stroke-based Chinese, as well as phonetic Pinyin and BoPoMoFo text input. Language support is continually expanding. There are nearly 300 mobile phone models available throughout the world today that include T9 Text Input and the technology has been licensed to major consumer electronics and communications equipment manufacturers representing more than 90 percent of annual mobile phone production worldwide. About Tegic Communications Tegic Communications, a leading developer of software for wireless phones, was founded in 1995 to develop and market communication technologies for the telecommunications and computing industries and was acquired by America Online, Inc. in December 1999. Tegic Communications is headquartered in Seattle and has offices in the UK, Japan and China. About America Online, Inc. America Online, Inc. is a wholly owned subsidiary of AOL Time Warner, Inc. (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange : AOL). Based in Dulles, Virginia Dulles, Virginia is an unincorporated census-designated place located in Loudoun County, Virginia, part of the Washington Metropolitan Area. The headquarters of AOL, Orbital Sciences Corporation and ODIN technologies and the former headquarters of MCI Inc. are located in Dulles. , America Online is the world's leader in interactive services, Web brands, Internet technologies and e-commerce services. Tegic is a trademark and T9 is a registered trademark of America Online. All other trademarks or registered trademarks belong to their respective holders. |
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