Tegic Communications and MagCom Sign Global Licensing Agreement For T9 Text Input Software; MagCom to Enable Mobile Handsets with T9 Text Input.Business Editors DULLES, Va. & OSLO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 1, 2001 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., announced today it has licensed its T9(R) Text input software to Norway-based handset manufacturer, MagCom. With the agreement, MagCom will incorporate T9 Text Input software for Danish, English, Norwegian and Swedish into its mobile phones to enable easy text entry. By making text entry on mobile phones quick and easy, T9 Text Input enables the use of text-based mobile 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 and e-mail. "Licensing T9 Text Input gives us the ability to incorporate the industry's leading text entry solution into our next generation of wireless phones," said Lars Oberg, CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. of MagCom. "By making text entry quick and easy, T9 software makes it more practical to use the latest text-based mobile services." "We are excited to work with MagCom to integrate T9 Text Input into their high-end handsets," said Per Lauridsen, Director of Business Development in Europe for Tegic Communications. "By incorporating T9 Text Input, MagCom will enhance consumers' use of wireless communications services." 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. In addition to MagCom, current licensees of T9 Text Input include Nokia, Ericsson, Motorola, Siemens, Acer, Amstrad, Arima, Benefon, Bosch, Denso Wireless Systems America, Fujitsu, Hyundai Electronics, LG Electronics, Maxon Telecom, 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, Pantech Pantech can be:-
There are more than 125 mobile phone models available throughout the world today that include T9 Text Input. Language Availability T9 Text Input is available in 23 languages, including Arabic, Chinese, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Korean (Hangul), Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Slovak, Spanish, Swedish and Turkish. T9 Text Input supports Simplified and Traditional stroke-based Chinese, as well as phonetic Pinyin and BoPoMoFo text input. Language support is continually expanding. About the MagCom Handset MagCom is the world's first smartphone, incorporating Internet and PDA (Personal Digital Assistant) A handheld computer for managing contacts, appointments and tasks. It typically includes a name and address database, calendar, to-do list and note taker, which are the functions in a personal information manager (see PIM). functionality, wrapped into a magnesium handset. Designed as a fold up model (patent pending), MagCom's magnesium body acts as a shield between the user and the antenna, deflecting potentially damaging radiation. The MagCom handset is designed for one hand control and is delivered with one of the fastest mobile Internet browsers (developed by MagCom), alternately displaying WAP (1) (Wireless Access Point) See access point. (2) (Wireless Application Protocol) A standard for providing cellular phones, pagers and other handheld devices with secure access to e-mail and text-based Web pages. and HTML HTML in full HyperText Markup Language Markup language derived from SGML that is used to prepare hypertext documents. Relatively easy for nonprogrammers to master, HTML is the language used for documents on the World Wide Web. pages on one of the largest displays available on the market. The software functionality will continuously develop over time and can be upgraded from www.magcom.no by the customer. About Magcom Corporation MagCom is an independent mobile smartphone producer. The company is headquartered in Oslo, Norway and its major investors include Telenor and Insight Capital Partners. For more information and for a product demonstration, please visit www.magcom.no. About Tegic Communications Tegic Communications, a leading developer of software for mobile phones was founded in 1995 to develop and market communication technologies for the telecommunications and computing industries and was acquired by America Online, 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. ) in December 1999. Tegic Communications is headquartered in Seattle and has offices in the UK, Japan and Greater China. Tegic's flagship product, T9 Text Input, is the leading alphabet-based and Chinese and Japanese character-based text entry software. T9 Text Input 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, call (206) 343-7001, or visit the Company's Web site at www.T9.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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