America Online's Tegic Communications and LG Electronics Announce Expanded Global Licensing Agreement for T9 Text Input Software.

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CTIA Wireless 2004

ATLANTA--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 22, 2004

LG Electronics to Continue Using T9 (R) Text Input as Preferred

Predictive Text Entry Software Across All Wireless Handsets

Tegic Communications, a wholly owned subsidiary of America Online, Inc., and LG Electronics (LGE), announced today a renewed, multi-year agreement that will incorporateT9 Text Input along with the extensive library of T9(R) language databases across a wide-range of LGE wireless phones distributed worldwide.

The extended integration of T9 Text Input will enable even more consumers to take full advantage of the text-based wireless services such as SMS (short messaging service), instant messaging and e-mail that are available via LGE wireless phones.

"We are excited to expand our agreement with LGE and to continue providing them with T9 Text Input, the leading solution for predictive text entry on mobile phones," said Craig Peddie, Vice President and General Manager for Tegic Communications. "With the use of text-based wireless services continuing to grow, we look forward to our continuing relationship with LGE to provide their customers with the latest and most innovative text entry solutions available."

"With many consumers using SMS, wireless instant messaging and other text-based wireless services, T9 Text Input is a key feature on our wireless handsets," said Mr. Y.E Shin, Vice President with LGE. "Our expanded T9 Text Input agreement will help us make messaging even easier for our customers as we incorporate the software into our next generation of wireless phones"

Tegic Communications will be demonstrating T9 Text Input, T9 Sloppy Type for PDAs, the next generation of Chinese T9 -Phrasal Text Input PTI(TM)- and the latest features and functions in text input in the America Online booth at CTIA (Booth #769).

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 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, symbols, 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 42 languages: Afrikaans, Arabic, Bulgarian, Catalan, Chinese, Croatian, 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, Swahili, 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.

For more information about T9 Text Input, please visit www.t9.com or AOL Keyword: T9 Text Input.

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 France, Japan and China.

About LG Electronics

LG Electronics (Korea Stock Exchange: 6657.KS), established in 1958 as the pioneer in the Korean consumer electronics market, is a major global force in Electronics and Information & Communications products. More than 55,000 employees working in 76 overseas subsidiaries and marketing units around the world, strengthen LG Electronics' core competencies in three main business companies: Digital Appliance, Digital Display and Media, Telecommunication Equipment & Handset. The Telecommunication Equipment & Handset Company provides total solutions ranging from wired and wireless handsets to telecommunication equipment. LG Electronics is steadily expanding its world market share in CDMA, GSM and W-CDMA(UMTS) through innovation and the development of leading-edge technologies in next- generation wireless telecommunications. For more information, please visit www.lge.com

About America Online, Inc.

America Online, Inc. is a wholly owned subsidiary of Time Warner, Inc. Based in Dulles, Virginia, America Online is the world's leader in interactive services, Web brands, Internet technologies and e-commerce services.