America Online's Tegic Communications and Samsung Announce Expanded Global Licensing Agreement for T9 Text Input Software.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers CTIA (1) See CompTIA. (2) (Cellular Telecommunications & Internet Association, Washington, DC, www.ctia.org, www.wow-com.com) A membership organization founded in 1984 that is involved with regulatory and public affairs issues in the wireless industry. Wireless 2004 Booth #769 ATLANTA--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 23, 2004 Samsung Takes Commitment to T9(R) Text Input To A New Level as Preferred Text Entry Software Across All Wireless Handsets 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., and Samsung Electronics Samsung Electronics (SEC, Hangul:삼성전자; KSE: 005930, KSE: 005935, LSE: SMSN, LSE: SMSD) is a South Korean multinational corporation and the world's largest and leading electronics and information technology company. Co., Ltd., announced today an expanded multi-year agreement that will incorporate the extensive library of T9(R) Text Input language databases across a wide-range of Samsung wireless phones that will be distributed worldwide. The extended integration of T9 Text will enable even more consumers to take full advantage of the text-based wireless 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 that are available via Samsung wireless phones. "We are very excited to expand our agreement with Samsung and to continue providing them with T9 Text Input," said Craig Peddie, Vice President and General Manager for Tegic Communications. "The worldwide market continues to grow, supporting the rapid expansion of text based Also called "character based," it refers to handling text and not graphics. Simple charts and illustrations may be drawn, but they are limited to a set of special characters that are strung together to make up lines and shades (see OEM font). applications and services. We look forward to building on our close development relationship with Samsung to provide wireless users around the world with the most innovative and intuitive text entry solutions." Tegic Communications will be demonstrating T9 Text Input, T9 Sloppy Type for PDAs, the next generation of Chinese T9 -Phrasal Text Input PTI PTI - Portable Tool Interface (TM) - and the latest features and functions in text input in the America On-Line 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, including 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 (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. 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 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. About Samsung Electronics Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. is a global leader in semiconductor, telecommunications, flat panel display A thin display screen for computer and TV usage. The first flat panels appeared on laptop computers in the mid-1980s, and the LCD technology became the standard. Stand-alone LCD screens became available for desktop computers in the mid-1990s and exceeded sales of CRTs for the first time and digital convergence technology. Samsung Electronics employs approximately 75,000 people in 89 offices across 47 countries. The company is the world's largest producer of CDMA (Code Division Multiple Access) A method for transmitting simultaneous signals over a shared portion of the spectrum. The foremost application of CDMA is the digital cellular phone technology from QUALCOMM that operates in the 800 MHz band and 1.9 GHz PCS band. mobile phones, memory chips, TFT-LCDs, monitors and VCRs. Samsung Electronics consists of six main business units: Corporate Technology Operations, Digital Media Business, Telecommunication Network Business, Digital Appliance Business, Semiconductor Business, and LCD Business. For more information, please visit http://www.samsung.com. |
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