T9 Text Input Now Available in Turkish; Tegic Communications' Award-Winning Technology Now Available in 15 Languages and 17 Databases.Business Editors SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 21, 2000 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. (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange :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. ) announced today the availability of T9(R) Text Input for the Turkish language Turkish language, member of the Turkic subdivision of the Altaic subfamily of the Ural-Altaic family of languages (see Uralic and Altaic languages). Turkish is the official language of Turkey and one of the official languages of Cyprus. . With the addition of Turkish, T9 software is now available and in use in 15 languages and 17 databases in every major European, South American and Asian language including Chinese, Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean (Hangul), Norwegian, Portuguese, Spanish and Swedish. Language support is continuously expanding. T9 Text Input enables the use of advanced wireless communication services such as Short Messaging See SMS. Service (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. ), Internet access See how to access the Internet. and email by allowing wireless phone users to quickly and easily enter text and characters into their wireless phone. "As one of the most customer-requested linguistic databases, Turkish was immediately put on Tegic's high priority list," commented Don Davidge, vice president of sales and marketing at Tegic Communications. "The wireless market in Turkey is experiencing phenomenal growth and we want to continue to be at the forefront of providing the industry's leading text input solutions for wireless phones." There are more than 50 T9-enabled wireless phone models available throughout the world today. Most wireless phones with T9 software onboard can be equipped with one or more languages, giving users more choices. "The Turkish product presented some very unique obstacles. However, thanks to the work of our in-house native speakers, consultants and the patented T9 compression technology, the resulting database is very efficient despite the complexities of this inflected in·flect v. in·flect·ed, in·flect·ing, in·flects v.tr. 1. To alter (the voice) in tone or pitch; modulate. 2. Grammar To alter (a word) by inflection. 3. language," said Pim van Meurs, Director of Linguistics at Tegic Communications. "The Turkish language is very agglutinative ag·glu·ti·na·tive adj. Concerning or characteristic of agglutination. , which means that suffixes can be added to a word almost like `beads on a string.' Statements that typically require several words in English are often represented by one word in Turkish, resulting in the Turkish database needing to cover far more words than the English database." 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 10 key presses required by conventional "multi-tap" text entry. About Tegic Communications Tegic Communications was founded in 1995 to develop and market communication technologies for the telecommunications and computing industries. The company is headquartered in Seattle and has offices in Tokyo, Hong Kong and the UK. Tegic's flagship product is T9 Text Input, the leading alphabet-based and Chinese and Japanese character-based text input software. T9 Text Input technology has been licensed to major consumer electronics and communications equipment manufacturers representing more than 90 percent of annual wireless phone production worldwide. Current licensees include Nokia, Ericsson, Motorola, Benefon, Bosch, Fujitsu, Hyundai Electronics, LG Information & Communications, Maxon, Memory Corporation, Mitsubishi, NEC (NEC Corporation, Tokyo, www.nec.com, www.necus.com) An electronics conglomerate known in the U.S. for its monitors. In Japan, it had the lion's share of the PC market until the late 1990s (see PC 98). NEC was founded in Tokyo in 1899 as Nippon Electric Company, Ltd. , NeoPoint, Optimay, Panasonic, Philips, Qualcomm, Sagem, Samsung, Sanyo, Siemens, Sony, Telit, and Voxson. The company has worldwide patents, both issued and pending, on T9 Text Input technology. For more information about Tegic Communications or T9 Text Input, call 206/343-7001, send e-mail to info@tegic.com, or visit the Company's Web site at www.tegic.com. Tegic is a trademark and T9 is a registered trademark of Tegic Communications. All other trademarks or registered trademarks belong to their respective holders. |
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