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2000 - 26 (August 2000) PRODUCTS, SERVICES & APPLICATIONS Tegic Communications Moves into Asia and Europe Tegic Communications, a wholly owned subsidiary of America Online, Inc., announced that it has established offices in Beijing, Hong Kong, and Japan as well as in the U.K. to support its growing Asian and European markets. With offices in both marketplaces, the company can better support its local customers (licensees of its T9 Text Input) as well as foster the advancement of the "AOL Anywhere" strategy, including the introduction of wireless instant messaging and other related AOL Wireless products and services. Tegic’s T9 Text Input allows for easy text entry on mobile phones simplifying such wireless services as SMS, wireless e-mail, and Internet access. The T9 technology is adaptable to many information devices, including:
Although each key on a telephone keypad can be interpreted in multiple ways (for instance, 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, with T9 Text Input, an end-user entering the word call into a mobile phone will enter four key presses rather than 10 key presses required by conventional text entry. T-9 Text Input is available in 16 languages and 19 databases, including English, French, German, Portuguese, Spanish, Greek, Italian, Danish, Dutch, Chinese, Japanese and Korean. The company is continuing its development, extensive quality assurance, and user-testing program of T9 language databases for other languages. Tegic will be launching its Eastern European and Middle Eastern T9 databases in the future. For more information: www.tegic.com/indexnews.html Mobileinfo Comments and Advisory: Tegic has interesting text input technology based on most common input streams entered on a device. It is a partial solution to limitations of smart phones. Note: This news release may contain forward-looking statements. Readers should take appropriate caution in developing plans utilizing these products, services and technology architectures. All trademarks used in this summary are the property of their respective owners. NEWS
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